The first person who died after three days in hospital with fever and breathing difficulties was a 46-year-old woman from Krong Pac District’s Hoa An Commune. The second patient, aged 42, from Dong Tam Commune, Dong Phu District, fell ill on Tuesday, was admitted to the provincial General Hospital on Friday and died on Saturday. Both had tested positive for the A/H1N1 flu virus at their local hospitals. The Ministry of Health is yet to confirm the reason for the deaths and if it is proved that they both died from swine flu, the number of fatalities from the virus in Vietnam will rise to nine. Meanwhile, the Tran Quang Dieu High School in Hoai An District, Central Binh Dinh Province has become the third in the province to have a field hospital erected on the premises to treat its pupils. The school has more than 50 pupils suspected of contracting the A/H1N1 flu virus. All the schools with suspected cases of A/H1N1 in An Nhon District of the same province have been closed until the … [Read more...]

The temperature is predicted to hover around 36-39 degrees Celsius in several days, which is one degree lower than that of April 12, 37-40 degrees Celsius on average, Cuong said. The highest temperature this week was recorded in Ba To District of Quang Ngai, a central province, at 41.1 degrees Celsius, followed by Dong Ha, the capital city of the central province of Quang Tri, at 41 degrees Celsius. The climatic phenomenon is expected to last until April 17, he noted. Le Dinh Quyet, from the Hydro-Meteorological Observatory of the Southern Region, said that Binh Phuoc, a southern province, has experienced the highest overall temperature, over 38 degrees Celsius, among the southern localities since the dry season. On April 12, temperatures in Dong Phu District, Binh Phuoc, hit 38.5 degrees Celsius, and it is now as hot as 38.4 degrees Celsius, Quyet said. “Compared to the same period last year, the overall temperature is 0.5-1 degrees Celsius higher,” he said when … [Read more...]

Visiting Binh Phuoc on April 14, Trong urged the province to fully tap its forest and mineral resources potential, combat corruption and intensify land management to speed up socio-economic development. He applauded its efforts to reduce the number of poor households to 5.4 percent and improve lives of residents in all areas. The province posted economic growth of 12.26 percent between 2011 and 2013. During the difficult year of 2012, it contributed VND3,900 billion to the State budget. The Party leader noted that the province has actively implemented the Resolutions of the Party Central Committee’s 4th meeting on strengthening the Party and the 11th National Party Congress through detailed and practical plans of action, earning initial positive outcomes. He instructed the province to continue implementing these guidelines, making it a regular and long-term political task. Trong also visited soldiers at Army Corp 16 and residents at Tan Lap commune in Dong Phu district, … [Read more...]

Check out the news you should not miss today, December 29: Check out the news you should not miss today, December 29: Politics -- A ceremony to celebrate 56 years of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Cuba (December 2) and the Republic of Cuba’s 58th Anniversary of Independence Day (January 1) was held in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday night. The event was attended by Ho Chi Minh City’s senior leaders and the Consul General of Cuba in Vietnam. Society -- Four fishermen from the south-central province of Phu Yen were captured by Papua New Guinea authorities as they were working on board a fishing boat from the central province of Quang Ngai last weekend. -- Police in the southern province of An Giang on Wednesday caught 34 people red-handed getting involved in an illegal cockfight, seizing VND30 million (US$1,339) in cash. -- Ho Chi Minh City will dredge 11 canals in District 9, Nha Be District and Can Gio District at a cost of over VND1,182 billion ($52.77 … [Read more...]

Binh Phuoc (VNA) – Local authorities in southern Binh Phuoc province announced on November 1 that the province had eliminated an outbreak of diphtheria on the district-level. On June 22, the outbreak was first reported in Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu communes of Dong Phu district. The disease claimed three lives, two in Thuan Loi and the other in Thuan Phu. Binh Phuoc province declared a district-level diphtheria outbreak in July 2016. Up to 47 people were hospitalised with the disease. The provincial Health Department worked with the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City and the city-based Hospital for Tropical Diseases to conduct tests, sterilisation and assess treatment and prevention options The last patient was discharged from hospital on August 29 and prevention activities were launched. No new cases have been found in the province. Local authorities assigned the Health Department to monitor the situation and report to the provincial People’s Committee. Health … [Read more...]

Japan’s WWB Corporation will build a solar power plant in Dong Phu district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc, according to Binh Phuoc province’s People’s Committee. Covering 50ha in Tan Hoa commune, the plant has a capacity of between 75 and 100MW. Nguyen Van Loi, General Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, said the province welcomes the project and pledges to create all possible conditions for the investor to implement the project. Vietnam has enormous solar potential, especially in its central and southern parts. It has average solar irradiation of 4-5 kWh/sq.m/day, which is comparable to Thailand and the Philippines, which are more developed solar markets in the region, as well as to mature international markets like Spain and Italy. The Vietnamese Government has recognised this potential and aims to significantly increase renewable energy production including solar power. Under its newly revised Power Development Plan for until 2030, which … [Read more...]

Hundreds of local farmers are enjoying the fruits of their labor now watermelons have come into season. Over the last three years, a state-owned plantation in the southern province of Binh Phuong has cut down old rubber trees to make room for new ones. While the rubber trees are still young, many local farmers have hired land to grow watermelons. The melons take between 50 and 60 days from planting to harvest, so each family can grow two to three crops each year. After deducting costs, local growers can make up to hundreds of millions of dong each year. … [Read more...]

PANO - The Command of Army Corps 16 offered free health checkups, medicines and gifts to minority ethnic people in Dak Ngo commune, Tuy Duc district, Dac Nong province and Tan Phuoc commune, Dong Phu district, Binh Phuoc province on July 23rd and 24th. Doctors from Military-Civilian Hospital 16 and Army Corps 16’s Regiment 720’s Infirmary cooperated with local authorities and military health staff to provide check-ups and medicines for more than 900 people. Doctors from Military-Civilian Hospital 16 and Regiment 720’s Infirmary check locals’ health. On the occasion, the Command presented 120 gifts to Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, wounded and sick soldiers, national contributors and households facing adversity in life in the two communes. * Also on July 24th, the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion conducted a humanitarian blood donation campaign in Dong Ha city, Quang Tri province as part of the Red Journey 2016. Nearly 500 youth … [Read more...]

The outbreak of diphtheria has resulted in at least 61 cases. Binh Phuoc Province, 140 kilometers to the north of Ho Chi Minh City, has seen an outbreak of preventable diphtheria which so far has killed three people aged 6-26, according to local health authorities. The resurgence of diphtheria, according to health experts, is due to a low vaccination rate. Although some of the dead had been vaccinated, they probably didn’t follow the recommended schedule and doses of the vaccine, Phan Trong Lan, director of Ho Chi Minh City’s Pasteur Institute, was quoted by the government's online newspaper as saying. He said that the vast majority of vaccinated people will be immune to the disease. Statistics show that the vaccination rate in Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District was on a steady decline from 2008 to 2013, creating a dangerously lower immunity level in the area. Every person who is successfully vaccinated helps slow the spread of the infection, reducing the … [Read more...]

Health sector and other agencies in the southern province of Binh Phuoc are making concerted efforts to stop spreading of diphtheria in the province as the disease is plaguing communes claiming three deaths and hospitalization of ten people. Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu Communes in Binh Phuoc Province’s Dong Phu District have reported the deaths of three inhabitants due to diphtheria. According to the mother of Dieu Trit who died on June 30, Trit told to have pain in chest and throat, he later came to the medical clinic to take some medication yet his illness did not abate. His condition turned serious on June 29 when he was rushed to Thanh Tam Hospital and later the General Hospital in the province. Despite of medical workers’ efforts to save him, he died on June 30. The second and the third victims Thi Lai and 24 year old Nguyen Truong Hau had the same symptoms. Reporter of Sai Gon Giai Phong arrived in the province and realized that lives of inhabitants changed as they … [Read more...]

People’s Committee in the southern province of Binh Phuoc yesterday decided to announce diphtheria epidemic in district Dong Phu. The disease is caused by a type of bacteria called Corynebacterium diphtheria, spreading through person-to-person contact or through contact with objects that have the bacteria on them, such as a cup or used tissue. Head of the Department of Health in Binh Phuoc Province Dr. Nguyen Dong Thong said that from June 24 to July 14, 47 inhabitants in two communes Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu have diphtheria including three deaths, six people discharged from hospitals and 38 others are monitored in district medical clinics. Of them, four are positive for the diphtheria bacterium. Dong Phu District reported additional 10 cases of diphtheria on July 13 and more people are expected to have the disease. Ho Chi Minh City-based Pasteur Institute tested 36 samples and found four of them positive for the bacteria to cause diphtheria. The institute warned of more people … [Read more...]

Binh Phuoc (VNA) – A diphtheria outbreak has officially been announced at the district level in the southern province of Binh Phuoc. The declaration was issued by the provincial People’s Committee in Decision No. 1954/QD-UBND, signed by Vice Chairman Huynh Thi Hang on July 15. The Committee instructed the provincial health sector to closely monitor the situation, take sample tests from high-risk groups and advise people to take preventive pills and spray disinfectants to prevent the disease from spreading. Mass diphtheria vaccinations should be conducted for all people aged between 1-25. Health facilities at all levels have been asked to actively get prepared and ensure that all people contracting the disease are isolated and receive treatment to reduce the rate of mortality and new infections. The provincial Party Committee instructed relevant bodies to promptly take steps to monitor, prevent and control the outbreaks in Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu communes of Dong Phu … [Read more...]

Dozens of locals have developed similar symptoms. The diphtheria epidemic, which started on June 24 in Binh Phuoc Province (140 kilometers to the north of Ho Chi Minh City), has so far killed three people. All of the victims were under 25 years old. A local hospital in Dong Phu District has admitted 10 new cases of diphtheria, said health officials, raising the total number of the infections to 47. The victims displayed all the symptoms linked to diphtheria, including a sore throat, fever, swollen glands in the neck, difficulty breathing and loss of appetite. “[We] have asked the provincial People’s Committee to declare an outbreak,” said Nguyen Dong Thong, head of Binh Phuoc Province’s Heath Department. The Preventive Medicine Center is preparing to distribute antibiotics and give vaccinations to those who are at a high risk of infection. 29 people in the districts of Thuan Loi and Thuan Phu have already developed similar symptoms, and four have tested … [Read more...]

The Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health yesterday asked southern province of Binh Phuoc to adopt measures against diphtheria as there have been 29 people hospitalized including three dead in past two week because of the disease. All 29 inhabitants living in Dong Phu District were taken to hospitals when they had high fever, tonsils and coughing. Three of them died of the disease, six were discharged and 20 others are still in hospitals for treatment. Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has taken samples of patients, their care-takers and those who directly contacted with dead patients for testing. Head of the Ministry of Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine Tran Dac Phu required the local health department to keep a close watch over diphtheria to quickly detect new cases and those who directly contact them so that hospitals quarantined them to curb spreading and infections. Additionally, local health authority should closely work with … [Read more...]

Check out what is in the news today: Check out what is in the news today: Politics -- Vietnam is fully supportive of the arbitration tribunal’s issuance of the final ruling on the Philippines’ lawsuit against China’s claims to the East Vietnam Sea on Tuesday, its Foreign Ministry Spokesman Le Hai Binh asserted later the same day. The tribunal was set up pursuant to Annex VII of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea at the request of the Philippines. -- Pham Thu Hang, deputy spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced on Tuesday that ministry officials had met with representatives of the Thai Embassy in Hanoi, demanding the nation’s Foreign Ministry investigate a Thai Navy boat opening fire on three Vietnamese fishing ships on Friday last week, leaving one fisherman missing and two others injured. Society -- Border guards in the central province of Quang Tri said on Tuesday that a unit stationed on Con Co Island … [Read more...]

The digital industrial revolution Viet Nam should strengthen market-based reforms and invest in education and training in order to take advantage of opportunities arising from the next digitalisation-driven production revolution, experts have said. At the workshop, "The Next Production Revolution and its policy implications" jointly held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), yesterday in Ha Noi, experts said that the world was on the brink of the next production revolution with profound technological breakthroughs, while Viet Nam was embarking on the new stage of development and integration with accelerated industrialisation from 2016 to 2020. Besides opportunities, the next production revolution posed challenges to Viet Nam particularly the challenge of further lagging behind, according to the experts. It is time for policy-makers in Viet Nam to acquire a better understanding of the digital revolution to make the best … [Read more...]

Since 2014, the price of rubber has been drastically down resulting in the Vietnam Rubber Group and farmers facing hardship. Yet, this year, the price of the tree is showing a hike bringing new hope for farmers. To overcome the difficulties, many farmers have cut down the tree to grow other trees such as pepper and cassava. In the end of May, 2016 was in the harvesting season of rubber latex and at that time the prices were stable in the South East region and slightly higher than last year. As per the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Southern province of Binh Phuoc, from the middle of May, rubber latex fetched VND8,700 a kilogram in Dong Phu District meanwhile it was sold at VND8,700 per kilogram in Hon Quang District. In the southern province of Binh Duong’s Dau Tieng District, its price was at VND8,800-8,900 a kilogram; at VND8,600-8,700 per kilogram at Bau Bang District. The current prices are 40 percent higher than the fourth quarter in 2015.However, … [Read more...]

A total 496 candidates have been elected to the 14th National Assembly after results of the elections held on May 22 were announced by the National Election Council (NEC) yesterday. There were 870 candidates running for the 500-seat parliament, but results showed four seats remained vacant. Nearly 67.6 million voters, or 99.35 per cent, cast ballots to elect deputies to the 14th National Assembly and People’s Council with the highest turnout recorded in Thua Thien-Hue, Yen Bai and Lai Chau provinces, chief of the NEC office Nguyen Hanh Phuc told the council’s sixth session yesterday. Among those elected, 86 were from ethnic minority groups, 133 were women, and 21 were non-Party members. Of note is the fact that the number of young candidates (below 40 years old) elected are 14.3 per cent higher than expected and the number of first-time deputies are 317, equal to 63.9 per cent of the total. With regard to the election to the People’s Council from 2016 to 2021 at … [Read more...]

Taiwan-headquartered Far Eastern Apparel Vietnam Ltd. launched the construction of a 10-hectare garment factory in Bac Dong Phu industrial park in Dong Phu district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc on November 10. The factory, the second facility of the firm in Vietnam, is expected to become operational in February 2016 with 36 production lines, employing more than 4,000 labourers in its first phase. In the second phase from the end of 2016, the number of production lines and employees are both expected to be doubled. Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony, Nguyen Huy Phong, Deputy Standing Chairman of the Binh Phuoc People’s Committee pledged to create favourable conditions for the firm in implementing the project as schedule. He suggested the provincial vocational training centre coordinate with the company in recruiting workers for the project. The first Far Eastern Apparel factory is located in the neighbouring province of Binh Duong. … [Read more...]

61-year-old woman in Binh Phuoc Province is in need of financial help. Vo Ngoc Em Vo Ngoc Em has suffered from badly bowed legs since her birth. She had eight siblings but they have all died. Her only living sister-in-law lives in another province. "Some died when they were very young, some married but died before they could have children," she said. "I'm not depending on my sister-in-law because her situation is hard too." Em often did odd jobs for the neighbours for small wages, she now often spends time alone in the house. Her neighbours help her with some rice and vegetables. In 2014, Em's legs broke twice and recently, she was burnt by hot water. In early 2015, she had severe stomach ache so the neighbours brought her to HCM City's University Medical Centre. She was diagnosed with various illnesses in including uterine and rectal prolapses. Em living alone in dilapidated house Em will need at least VND40 million (USD1,900) for the treatment. "I can only ask for … [Read more...]