Firms need to improve meals for workers A buffet meal at the Mong Duong Coal Joint Stock Company under the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group. Many workers in different enterprises do not have access to healthy and nutritious meals. Many workers have not been able to access healthy and nutritious meals at their workplaces, causing massive food poisoning. In the meantime, enterprises have shown little interest in improving the situation. Figures from the Ministry of Health showed that on average, 17 food poisoning incidents occurred in the canteens of industrial and export processing zones annually since 2010, forcing thousands of workers to be hospitalised for treatment. The country is home to 256 industrial and export processing zones, creating jobs for over three million people. In the first quarter of the year, eight food poisonings have been reported. The latest case was on April 21, when more than 300 workers of Minh Hưng-Korea Industrial Park in southern Bình … [Read more...] about Social News 4/6
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Social News 12/4
WB project helps Hanoi cut red tape surrounding land use rights Hanoi has accelerated the process of granting land use rights, with more than 40,500 certificates issued for commercial housing projects in 2014. The result is attributable to the implementation of the World Bank-funded Vietnam Land Administration Project (VLAP) across Dan Phuong, Quoc Oai and Ung Hoa districts since 2008. To date, the project has processed the registration for 404,481 out of 454,480 local plots and granted 260,418 land use rights certificates. The VLAP aims to increase stakeholder access to land information services by developing an improved land administration system in selected provinces. The objective is to ensure that land users, including businesses and households, have access to more efficient, reliable, and transparent services from local land administrators. The municipal VLAP management board is completing a package deal to build digital data for all plots across 66 participating communes and … [Read more...] about Social News 12/4
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Vietnam bans animal slaughter at violent spring festivals With the spring festival season nearly upon us, Vietnam's Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has ordered an end to all performances that include either violent or offensive rituals, such as killing animals. Several festivals still feature violent rituals that involve slaughtering pigs and bull fighting, and that has to stop, the ministry said in a new statement. Most spring-time rituals in Vietnam were created centuries ago to commemorate ancient war heroes, show respect to the gods and to pray for good health, peace and prosperity -- all honorable causes. But how people celebrate and perform these rituals is another question. Sometimes that involves the brutal killing of animals in public, like the pig slaughtering festival in the northern province of Bac Ninh. Nem Thuong villagers celebrate the festival on the sixth day of the first lunar month, which is February 5 next year, to commemorate a general who took refuge in … [Read more...] about Social News 29/10
Farmers get rich breeding wild animals
Farmers get rich breeding wild animals Bush meat: Domesticated boar meat provide delicacy eateries in big cities, where people look for fancy food with less fat. — VNS Photo Another man's poison: Snakes raised in a farm help stop the wild animal trafficking. End result: Leather goods made of crocodile skin employs thousands of workers. (09-11-2008) Thien Ly discovers how the government is killing two birds with one stone: Helping poor farmers breed wild or rare animals which sell for high profits and ensuring the species' survival. Nguyen Trong Hieu, a 43-year-old farmer in Go Cong Town, Tien Giang Province, is washing 15 newborn wild boar piglets in a simple 50sq.m sty. He cannot remember exactly how many of them were born on his farm, but does know that he has sold 400 of them since he began breeding the exotic porkers. "The F4 crossbred wild boar sells for VND3.5 million, and the F1 crossbred for VND2 million. A single of live boar goes for between … [Read more...] about Farmers get rich breeding wild animals
Viet Nam must deal with waste time-bomb
Next week Have you ever seen a Rolls Royce Phantom being sold for VND200,000 (US$10) on the streets of Ha Noi? Does that seem too cheap? What do you think about people buying a paper version of the car only to burn it with the hope that people in the other world will be able to ride in a "real" Rolls Royce? Every July 15 according to the lunar calendar (this year it fell on August 24 on the Gregorian calendar), Vietnamese people have a tradition of holding a ceremony to worship their ancestors' spirits in the other world. The ceremony is calledVu Lan (Thanksgiving). During the Vu Lan ceremony, and most other ancestor worshipping ceremonies as well, people burn paper products with the belief their ancestors will receive them. In the past, people only burned paper money and paper-clothes. However, these days they also burn paper replicas of the most modern cars, villas, and air-conditioners available. The original rituals were meant to be modest and reveal the good attitude people felt … [Read more...] about Viet Nam must deal with waste time-bomb