The Education Ministry is weighing a reshuffling project that would see equal polices for state and private universities, simplification of school establishment procedures, and other issues of public concern. Under the project, the ministry was planning to admit an intake of around 4.5 million university students in 2020 with 40 percent of them allocated for private universities and colleges. In order to achieve that target, among a plethora of proposals put forth by the ministry stood out a significant change under which the ministry would offer equal allocations of financial assistance for all universities and colleges, whether public or private institutions. … [Read more...] about Vietnamese universities, colleges to undergo radical shake-up
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Social News Headlines 14/5
Rare species released into Tram Chim National Park The management board of Tram Chim National Park in the southern province of Dong Thap has just released into the park 10 wild animals, some of which are rare species. Among the animals, which were rescued elsewhere by the Wildlife Rescue Centre in Ho Chi Minh City, there are four Asian small-clawed otters (Aonyx cinerea), two leopard cats (Prionailurus bangalensis) and one king cobra (Ophiophagus hannah), all listed in Group IB (strictly banned from commercial exploitation and use) in Vietnam's Red Book of endangered species. … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 14/5
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Student faces Facebook page probe Ha Noi's Police High-tech Crime Prevention Faculty summoned Nguyen Van Tien to investigate his behaviour of smearing Vingroup Joint Stock Company on social network Facebook. Tien, born in 1991, in the northern province of Ha Nam, is now in his last year at the Ha Noi University of Science and Technology. Earlier, Vingroup submitted a document to the police to report a fan page on Facebook titled "Vingroup lua tien khach hang" (roughly translated as "Vingroup cheated customers"). The investigating agency then discovered that in late August 2013, Tien used his Facebook account to start a fan page that he named Vingroup and also took the company's logo as an avatar. 14 year old girl infected with bizarre skin disease A 14 year old girl in Ba Nam Commune is discovered to have the unidentified skin disease plaguing Ba To District in the central province of Quang Ngai. Le Han Phong, chairman of People's Committee in Ba To District confirmed this … [Read more...] about Social News Headlines 15/4
Social Headlines January 17
Two murderers receive death penalty The People's Court of the southern province of Dong Nai sentenced two men to death yesterday. The verdict said that Ngo Van Tam, 21, and Tran Tu Dien, 25, killed their roommate on Christmas Day last year for failing to give Tam VND500 million (US$23,500) as promised. They chopped up the victim's body and disposed of it. They also stole money and a mobile phone from the deceased before stealing a motorcycle in An Binh market. Tam and Dien were arrested on December 26. More arrests made in hacking scandal Police have arrested two men who hacked websites and stole foreigners' credit card information to buy luxury goods abroad and sell them later in Viet Nam. The two men, Nguyen Quang Nhut, 35, of HCM City, and Nguyen Van Hoa, 23, of central Quang Tri Province, were part of a group operating through an internet forum that offers instructions on how to hack websites. The forum is open to anyone free of charge, but once an individual pays a US$100 … [Read more...] about Social Headlines January 17
SOCIETY IN BRIEF 18/12
Doctors, nun, save boy's life Doctors at HCM City's Nhi Dong 2 Hospital yesterday, Dec 17, successfully performed a transplant on a boy using a kidney donated by an unrelated person. It was the first successful case of its kind in Viet Nam. The operation took three hours using a donated kidney from an anonymous nun. Nine-year old Nguyen Xuan Khanh from the Central Highland province of Lam Dong suffered from kidney failure at birth. His parents could not give him their kidneys because of blood incompatibility. Khanh waited for years without a success for a donated kidney and his situation slowly deteriorated. A Catholic nun who heard of his life-or-death plea offered one of her kidneys and the operation went ahead. She prefers to remain anonymous. The doctors are supervising the health of both Khanh and the nun. This is the tenth case of a kidney transplant operation on children at the hospital. Mongolia, Vietnam ink education agreement Deputy Minister of Education and … [Read more...] about SOCIETY IN BRIEF 18/12