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HCM City has asked the Department of Education and Training to install cameras in kindergartens in an aim to prevent child abuse. Photo chinhphu.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City People’s Committee has asked the city’s Department of Education and Training to pilot a project to install cameras in public and private kindergartens starting this school year. Nguyễn Thị Thu, deputy chairman of the committee, cited the growing number of reported cases of mental and physical abuse of children in kindergartens. The committee asked the department to also propose solutions to minimize such abuse in the educational environment. The city suggested that the department work with the city’s Department of Justice and Department of Information and Communication to test cameras in kindergartens, and to draw up regulations for the use of data and images from cameras by authorities, schools and parents. The committee said the project should begin in districts that have many … [Read more...] about HCM City to install cameras in kindergartens

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has launched a mobile app providing information related to classification of solid wastes at source. — VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY — A mobile application to provide people information about solid waste classification at source was unveiled in HCM City on June 21. The app, “Phân loại chất thải rắn tại nguồn” (Solid waste classification at source) has been created by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE) and the Việt Nam Post and Telecommunications Group. The helpful sorting tool offers users helpful tips on how to separate various types of untreated solid wastes through images, videos and text. It also shows the process of solid waste collection, how to categorise the waste based on recycling labels and a list of solid waste types. Users can send their feedback to the department about environmental issues and the … [Read more...] about HCM City launches mobile app to guide solid waste classification

HCM City locals can easily update the latest traffic information via the mobile application Zalo. — Photo courtesy of sggp.org.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY – HCM City locals can now easily view the latest update of traffic information via the mobile application Zalo, according to the director of the HCM City Department of Transport. Director Bùi Xuân Cư ờng said the department had collaborated with technology firms to integrate the HCM City Traffic Portal with the Zalo app. They can find information about traffic flow, roadblocks, accidents, traffic congestion and current traffic via live images captured by 700 traffic cameras. To enhance interactions, the Sài Gòn River Tunnel Management Centre has added another function to Zalo, which can virtually assist locals in conveniently finding information. According to the Transport Department, integration of the HCM City Traffic Portal with Zalo was one of a number of projects that aim to build HCM City into a smart urban … [Read more...] about HCM City traffic app now available on Zalo

Young leaders and decision-makers shared their experiences about leadership, mentoring, support networks, and women’s health at the Women in Việt Nam Conference on Tuesday in HCM City. — VNS Photo Thu Hằng Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Young leaders and decision-makers shared their experiences and expertise about leadership, mentoring, support networks and women’s health at the Women in Việt Nam Conference held on Tuesday in HCM City. Organised by the Australian Consulate in HCM City, the two-day event, which began on Monday, was designed to mark Vietnamese Women’s Day on October 20. Targeting final-year female university students and recent graduates, the event was held to enhance participants’ understanding of the importance of women’s representation in leadership and shine a light on health and well-being challenges facing women. The conference programme included a number of side events, including a seminar on “How to Present a Winning Image” and a women’s pitching … [Read more...] about Women in Việt Nam Conference debuts in HCM City

Illuatrative Image enternews.vn HCM City — HCM City authorities will work closely with central provinces, where mass fish deaths have occurred because of chemical substances discharged into waterways, to prevent and stop the trade of dead or dying fish from these areas in HCM City. Võ Văn Hoan, chief of HCM City People’s Committee Office, said at a press conference held in the city yesterday: “If we don’t prevent unsafe and unhygienic food, local resident’s health as well as tourism will suffer the consequences.” He said that the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development had issued a ban on transport and trade of dead or dying fish. Hoan said that trade in these fish had already occurred. Many seafood enterprises have shifted seafood purchasing from the central province of Khánh Hòa to the south to ensure safety for customers. HCM City has experienced problems in food supply because of the recent severe drought and saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta. — VNS … [Read more...] about HCM City bans trade in contaminated fish

Speeding is one of the major reasons for road accidents in HCM City, authorities told a review meeting held a few days ago. – Photo: Zing.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY — HCM City’s Traffic Safety Committee and traffic police have called for making penalties for speeding more severe at a meeting held to review a two-month traffic campaign that had run until March 31. During the campaign, held to educate the public and clamp down on speeding, officers caught 7,368 vehicles speeding, including 2,320 private cars, 1,109 trucks, 180 buses, and 49 taxis. The number was almost a fourth up from the same period in 2017. At the meeting, held on Thursday, traffic police officials said they faced many difficulties in tackling speeding, especially due to the poor quality and obsolete speed guns. “When drivers are stopped, they ask to see the images and speeds recorded, but due to the poor quality, [they] are not clear and it takes us a lot of time to deal with them,” an official said. … [Read more...] about Severe penalties needed to check speeding on HCM City roads: officials

Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City perform surgery on a patient with gastric cancer. — Photo courtesy of Bình Dân Hospital Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City has performed surgery for the first time using indocyanine fluorescence imaging to treat gastric cancer. The imaging, which helped localise the boundary between a cancerous tumour and healthy tissues, identified sentinel nodes that were removed along with a 15 mm-cancerous tumour. Several months ago, the patient began having symptoms such as flatulence and abdominal pain, and later bought medicine. But his condition worsened. At Bình Dân Hospital, the man was diagnosed with gastric cancer at an early stage. The cancerous tumour was small and had not spread to the deeper layers of the stomach wall. Despite the early stage of the disease, gastric tumours can spread to other organs, mostly the liver, lungs and peritoneum, according to doctors. Both cancerous tumours … [Read more...] about VN doctors use indocyanine fluorescence imaging to treat gastric cancer

Illustrative Image vnmedia.vn HCM CITY— With the support of the World Federation of Interventional and Therapeutic Neuroradiology (WFITN), the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy will offer the training course “Updated diagnosis and treatment of cerebrovascular disease and stroke” from May 2-11. Professors of radiology, interventional neuroradiology and neurosurgery from the US, Canada, France, South Africa and Thailand along with Vietnamese counterparts will give lectures and explain best practices during the course, the first of its kind in the country, said Dr Trần Chí Cường, president of the Interventional Neuroradiology Society of HCM City. More than 200,000 people suffer from stroke in the country every year and the fatality rate of stroke remains high, Cường said. The country has fewer than 10 hospitals that could provide emergency, intervention and treatment for strokes, he said. Training and technical transfer for treatment of strokes at provincial … [Read more...] about City to open course on stroke treatment

More than 80 per cent of companies in HCM City requires candidates having at least one year-work experience before recruiting them for IT-related jobs.— Illustrative Image tayan.edu.vn HCM CITY – More than 80 per cent of companies in HCM City requires candidates having at least one year-work experience before recruiting them for IT-related jobs. It is the latest survey from the Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information under the city’s Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs Department conducting in April with participation of 1,868 local companies. Over a half of companies demanded candidates graduated from universities, 29 per cent requested candidates graduated from colleges for positions of computer programmer, software engineer and database administrators. Only 16 per cent of companies recruit labourers graduating from vocational and training schools to work as computer technician or computer-component salesperson. Trần Anh … [Read more...] about 80 % IT jobs require experienced candidates

Illustrative image. Patients wait to receive their medicine with healthcare insurance cards. — Photo suckhoedoisong.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — An insurance card holder in HCM City has returned VNĐ9 million (US$396) to the Heath Insurance Fund for misusing health insurance, according to HCM City’s Social Insurance Agency (SIA). The 47-year-old man who resides in HCM City’s District 8 had visited several hospitals in the city for health examination and treatment. After checking patients’ data on the health insurance medical information system, the city’s agency found that he had visited hospitals 319 times between the end of June last year and the middle of January this year. Specifically, on October 13 last year, he was examined at four hospitals in the city, namely HCM City Hospital of Traditional Medicine, District 1 Hospital, District 3 Hospital and Tân Bình District Hospital. Lưu Thị Thanh Huyền, deputy head of the city Social Insurance Agency said as soon as the … [Read more...] about Health insurance scammer returns $396