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  HCM CITY— The HCM City Department of Education and Training plans to reform teaching and learning systems at schools to prepare for the introduction of a new training programme and textbooks in 2020-21. It has enabled school managers to take initiatives to develop programmes to reduce learning by rote and increase practical lessons, Lê Hoài Nam, the department’s deputy head, said. Schools have strengthened outside activities and adopted problem-based learning, a teaching method that uses complex real-world problems to help students learn concepts and principles as opposed to mere presentation of facts and concepts, he said. This teaches students the skills of presentation, communication, teamwork, and others, and they also are inspired to be creative and develop their own strengths, he said. The department has increased the number of science contests at schools, he said. It has encouraged schools to use STEM, an approach integrating science, technology, … [Read more...] about HCM City prepares for new school training programme, curriculum

Illustrative image (Source: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Ho Chi Minh City authorities have promised to take swift action to curb the worsening air pollution, including improving environmental monitoring capacity and establishing an early warning system for residents. Cao Tung Son, director of the HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s Centre for Environmental and Natural Resources Monitoring, said the city was calling for investment in 11 additional air-monitoring stations by 2030. The city also plans to speed up current projects to build nine automatic air-monitoring stations and one mobile station to enhance environmental monitoring capacity.  It will enhance application of high-tech to manage the environmental monitoring network, especially the air environmental network. “The city will develop specialised software that will provide early warnings about air pollution to residents on a daily basis via the media or smartphones,” he … [Read more...] about HCM City to take swift action amid rising air pollution

The number of cases of dengue fever in HCM City shot up by 125 per cent in October compared to a year earlier and could rise further this month, the peak season, the Preventive Health Centre has warned. A child with dengue fever being treated in a HCM City hospital. November is the city’s peak season for the disease. City hospitals admitted 4,390 people with the disease last month. Dr Lê Hồng Nga, head of the centre’s contagious diseases control division, said dengue has occurred in all 24 districts, especially outlying ones which are urbanising now and have many construction works in progress. She was speaking at a programme organised by Sài Gòn Giải Phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper on November 9 in which doctors provided counselling to its readers. Besides, the outlying districts are crowded with migrant workers and environment hygiene there is poor, she said. People here have habits such as storing water … [Read more...] about HCM City sees sharp rise in dengue fever incidence

HCM City has earmarked 665ha of land by 2020 to upgrade existing hospitals and build new facilities so that they can cope with the relentless overcrowding, according to its Department of Health. City Paediatrics Hospital with 1,000 beds is one of the hospitals at the Tân Kiên Hospital Cluster in HCM City The Tân Kiên Hospital Cluster in the outlying district of Bình Chánh gets 74ha now instead of the originally proposed 54ha. It will have the 1,000-beds City Paediatrics Hospital, which opened this month and planned new facilities of the Blood Transfusion Haematology Hospital with 300 beds, Bình Dân Hospital with 300 beds, the Forensic Medicine Centre, and Phạm Ngọc Thạch Medical University. The department’s head, Nguyễn Tấn Bỉnh, told tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper that basic construction of the cluster is expected to be completed by 2020 though progress is slow because of problems … [Read more...] about HCM City adds facilities to hospitals to cope with overcrowding

UK-based entertainment magazine Time Out has ranked District 3 in HCM City as 18th on a list of the world's 50 coolest neighbourhoods. HCM City's District 3 among '50 coolest neighborhoods in the world' Visiting a 150-year-old pink church in Saigon Touring the pinky church in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Tan Dinh Church's pink colour attracts photo lovers. — VNS Photo Viet Dung As one of the city's 24 districts, District 3 is “a buzzing but less well-trodden neighbourhood where exciting new developments coexist with a sense of history", the magazine says. The article drew attention to the area's "colonial-era churches and villas alongside Buddhist pagodas" and live music mainstays. As part of Time Out's survey, around 27,000 city dwellers from around the world were asked for their opinions on their hometown's neighbourhoods. Time Out editors and contributing writers were also consulted. The Arroios area of Lisbon in Portugal was ranked the coolest place followed by … [Read more...] about HCM City’s District 3: 18th coolest neighbourhood in the world