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Mobile phone subscribers at a service station in Hà Nội’s Xã Đàn Street.— VNA/VNS Photo Minh Quyết Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Thousands of mobile phone subscribers are rushing to service providers across the country to update their personal information. Under the government’s Decree No. 49/NĐ-CP, issued on April 22, 2017, mobile connection can be blocked by service providers if customers fail to update their personal details before April 24. Under the decree, all mobile phone subscriptions activated before April 24, 2017, have to be registered with accurate information of owners, including name, identification/passport number and a profile picture. If they fail to register, the service provider will block incoming calls after 15 days and stop providing services in the next 15 days. The nearing of the deadline has caused a huge rush of customers to service providers overloading them, prompting the two giant telecommunications MobiFone and VinaPhone to … [Read more...] about Mobile phone subscribers rush to update personal information

Workers set up a car ban pole on Giảng Võ Street, Hà Nội. - Photo zing.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội has decided to ban Uber and Grab cars on 13 streets during rush hours in an effort to tackle increasing traffic jams. The city’s Department of Transport has, so far, installed signs prohibiting taxis and nine-seater commercial cars and smaller ones, including those of popular transportation networks Uber and Grab, on nine out of 13 streets. The ban is due to go into effect from Thursday. Accordingly, commercial cars will not be allowed to run between 6 and 9am and from 4.30 to 7.30pm. The streets on which the cars are banned are Hoàng Hoa Thám, Mai Xuân Thưởng, Giảng Võ and Láng Hạ, as well as Lê Văn Lương, Trường Chinh, Khâm Thiên and Hàng Bài, in addition to Phủ Doãn, Xuân Thủy, Cầu Giấy, Giải Phóng and the Chương Dương Bridge on the lane from Long Biên District to the city centre. Department director Vũ Văn Viện said the ban was aimed at reducing the … [Read more...] about Uber, Grab cars banned on 13 streets

Nguyễn Văn Chúc, a resident from HCM City’s Bình Thạnh District, once supported his family by fishing the Sài Gòn River. Now, due to water pollution, the quantity of fish is scare, so he has to transport goods and passengers to supplement his income. He also regularly saves people attempting suicide by jumping into the river. — Photo zing.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Some people have a job, others have a calling. Nguyễn Văn Chúc has a calling. When the 60-year-old fisherman from HCM City’s Bình Thanh District isn’t working by transporting goods and passengers he fishes out drowning and dead people from the Sài Gòn River, a river he lives on in a boat. When he was eight years old, Chúc followed his father rowing up the Sài Gòn River to catch fish. On one occasion, someone hired his father to search the river for a missing relative. He was so scared when he saw his first dead body that he pretended to be ill so his father could not ask him to go the next time. However, after … [Read more...] about A true fisher of men on the Sài Gòn River

Dr Muhamad Izwan Ismail, 36, general surgeon at Hospital Sultanah Aminah, Johor Baru, father of three As specialists dealing with acute care and cancer cases, we are not frontliners manning the Covid-19 wards but the risk of getting infected is still high, especially when patients are wheeled in for immediate surgery when the situation calls for it. In an emergency surgery, every minute counts and there is no time to wait for the patient’s Covid-19 swab test results. Thankfully, I haven’t gotten infected although some of my juniors have. Most of the wards at our hospital are occupied with Covid-19 cases, so our teams at the operating theatres have had to be cut.This means we have also had to cut down on the number of elective surgeries as some of our manpower, including anaesthesiologists, has been diverted to help treat Covid-19 patients. Despite doing fewer surgeries, our workload is not necessarily lighter. From last year’s list, we have about 200 postponed cases. … [Read more...] about Putting their lives on the line

French court sentences two Britons for human smuggling (27-01-2006) FRANCE — Two British citizens who had tried to smuggle five Vietnamese through the Channel Tunnel into Britain in a van were jailed by a court in northern France on Wednesday. Lucas Campbell was given 15 months and his companion Chantelle Stewart, accused of failing to help persons in danger, five months. The prosecution at the trial in the port city of Boulogne-sur-Mer had called for a two-year sentence for Campbell and 12 months for Stewart on the grounds that they had put the lives of their passengers in danger by transporting them in inhumane conditions. The pair had been picked up on Monday as they were about to enter the tunnel. In their Volkswagen van customs officers found five Vietnamese packed into a concealed space 40 centimetres (15 inches) high, 1.74 metres (5.7 feet) long and 1.4 metres (4.5 feet) wide. Campbell said that when he hired the van it had been suggested to him that he … [Read more...] about French court sentences two Britons for human smuggling

Traffic on Đại Cồ Việt Street in Hà Nội . VNS photo Đoàn Tùng Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội is eyeing fees on personal vehicles entering the city centre in an attempt to curb worsening traffic and pollution. The city People’s Committee submitted a plan to Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc earlier this month, asking for permission to gradually cut the number of vehicles in the central districts of the capital. The plan details three proposals, including a new fee on vehicles entering the districts in question, an extra fee for pollution and administrative tools to manage electric bicycles and cars. These are the key strategies Hà Nội authorities intend to use to enact the city’s master plan on congestion and pollution management, approved by the Hà Nội People’s Council in 2017. City officials called the proposed vehicle fee a behavioural economics initiative designed to restrict traffic in certain areas. Several large cities around the world, including London and … [Read more...] about Capital hopes fees will reduce congestion

President Trần Đại Quang received US President Donald Trump at an official reception on November 12, 2017. — VNA/VNS Photo Nhan Sáng Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — President Trần Đại Quang signed a letter to Vietnamese children on the occasion of the Mid-Autumn Festival. He did not know that it would be his last signature. He was admitted to the military hospital on the afternoon of the same day. He went into a coma at around 5pm and never woke up. On the previous day, he had two receptions: at 3:30pm, he hosted Chief Justice of the Supreme People’s Court of China Zhou Qiang. At 4:30pm, he met with heads of delegations to the 14th Assembly of the Asian Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (ASOSAI 14). “In the first meeting, he looked paler than on most days, but he still smiled when talking to the guest. But as he walked into the second meeting, he couldn’t hide his tiredness,” said Dương Dũng, who was the Vietnam News Agency reporter who had been exclusively … [Read more...] about Late President “loved and respected by many”

Police investigate the crime scene. — VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY — A gang of four robbers stabbed three persons in the process of escaping after stealing an SH-brand motorcycle parked on the pavement while its owner had gone to a shop, according to the Việt Nam News Agency. District 3’s police force in HCM City, in collaboration with other anti-crime police of the city, began investigation into the incident on the evening of May 13 and launched a manhunt for the robbers. According to preliminary information, at some 8.30pm on Sunday, some members of Tân Bình District’s volunteer robber-hunter group noticed a street robbery on the Cách Mạng Tháng Tám (August Revolution) Road. The group members immediately went after the robbers who managed to flee on their motorcycles. They caught up with the gang after chasing them for hundreds of metres. The robbers defended themselves with weapons, causing serious injury to four members of the robber-hunter group. The … [Read more...] about Three die after being stabbed by robbers

The accident killed one person and injured four others inside the Thủ Thiêm Tunnel in HCM City. — Photo vnexpress.net Viet Nam News - HCM CITY (VNS)  — One person was killed and four others seriously injured in a traffic accident this morning inside the Thủ Thiêm Tunnel in HCM City. The accident happened at around 23.30pm on Tuesday when a 1.5-tonne truck travelling from Thủ Thiêm to downtown HCM City hit a crew of five men who were collecting trash and cleaning the tunnel. The victims were rushed to the emergency ward of the Sài Gòn Gneral Hospital. Phạm Thanh Phong, 35, died on the way to hospital. Two others are in critical condition while the other two escaped with light injuries. The truck was damaged in the accident and the driver has not been identified. The tunnel was closed for three hours after the accident for investigations. — VNS … [Read more...] about One dead as truck hits workers in Thu Thiem Tunnel

Many people check out health care information and ask for advice on medical problems on Google. — VNS Photo M was not in good health. She suffered from body pain, swollen joints and gastric haemorrhage. One day, she started vomiting blood and was rushed to the HCM City Medicine and Pharmacy University from An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta. The 42-year-old woman was treated at the hospital and sent home with medicines, prescriptions and an appointment for follow-up. However, after taking the first batch of the prescribed medicines, she did not return to the hospital for the scheduled check up. Based on advice from a neighbour and information that she found on the Internet, she chose a different drug made, ostensibly in Cambodia. It eased her pains in the beginning but after three months of regular use, she was back in the hospital, her symptoms worse. Dr Cao Thanh Ngọc, who treated M, said she was suffering from Cushing’s syndrome, a side effect of treatment with … [Read more...] about Click risk: Dr Google’s not an ideal physician