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An 8-year-old girl in Tien Giang Province has been reported to have Leopard Syndrome

The girl has a large number of brown or black freckle-like skin markings on her face and body since she was four years old. She is also deaf and mute and her mind is stunted. At 8 years old, she is only over 1 metre tall and weighs 15kg. No one in the family has the same disease.

After she was admitted to the HCM City Hospital of Dermato-Venereology, the doctors noticed that she has many symptoms of the Leopard Syndrome. The brown markings on the face, chest and limbs have a darker colour while the markings on other parts are larger but have a lighter colour.

The genetic analysis results from HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy show missense mutations in the PTPN11 gene.

The first case of Leopard Syndrome was first discovered in 1936 in the world. As of now, there are 200 reported cases globally. Other symptoms are eyes that are spaced wide apart, heart problems, abnormalities of the genitals, hearing loss and stunted growth.

Symptoms are treated as appropriate.

Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport has been struggling with overcrowding in recent days, with passengers having to wait in queues for hours and running the risk of missing their flights. — Photo nld.com.vn

HCM CITY — Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City, the country’s largest, has been crowded in the last few days and people have had to queue up for hours.

Despite there being no evident reason for the congestion since there have been no holidays like Tết , there seem to be more and more passengers as domestic travel is returning to normal due to Việt Nam’s success in containing the COVID-19 pandemic.

People almost missed flights due to the long queues and airline staff needed to use microphones and placards to find passengers requiring to board soon.

Nguyễn Thanh, who flew to Hà Nội on a 10am flight on Friday, told VnExpress online newspaper that even though she and her family arrived at the airport at 8am, they were still waiting at the security checkpoint at 9.40am and had to seek help from airline staff to catch their flight.

Some travellers struggled with the medical declaration or forgot to do it, which made the wait longer.

The airport has also tightened security checks ahead of the April 30-May 1 holidays.

The crowding was worse before weekends, with the number of passengers rising from 64,000 on Wednesday to 77,000 the next day.

The airport has instructed airlines to station more personnel to support their customers with procedures to speed up things, and has increased the number of its staff and scanners at security checkpoints.

A Vietnam Airlines spokesperson said the carrier has increased the number of staff to support customers.

The airport was designed to serve 25 million passengers a year by 2020, but has been handling nearly 40 million since 2017.

Construction of its third terminal is slated to begin in October, which will increase its capacity to 50 million passengers a year. — VNS

It is necessary for Vietnamese firms to work with FDI enterprises to establish value chains in the electronics industry. — Photo tapchicongthuong.vn

HÀ NỘI — Enhancing the linkage between domestic and foreign-direct-investment (FDI) electronic enterprises can be an important solution to promote the development of this industry which is now dominated by the FDI sector.

Việt Nam was now home to factories of a number of global technology giants such as Samsung, LG, Canon and Intel with investment sums worth billions of dollars.

The country recently emerged as a top destination for FDI in the global production shift.

Oppo was planning to build a plant in the northern province of Bắc Ninh while Lenovo was also studying the opportunity for a plant in Bắc Ninh or Bắc Giang.

Although Apple has not announced plans to assemble iPhones in Việt Nam, many of their partners were increasing the production of components in the country.

Foxconn invested in a project producing iPads and MacBooks worth US$270 million in Bắc Giang three months ago and planned to expand production in the country with a goal of reaching revenue of $40 billion in the next three to five years.

According to Trần Thanh Hải, Deputy Director of the Import-Export Department under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, there was a significant change in the electronics industry in recent years that Việt Nam had original design manufacturers (ODMs).

Still, the electronics industry of Việt Nam was still dominated by the FDI sector.

Although Việt Nam was one among 12 of the largest electronics exporters in the world and top three in ASEAN, 95 per cent of the country’s electronics export came from FDI enterprises.

Đỗ Thúy Hương from the Việt Nam Electronic Industries Association said it was necessary for Vietnamese firms to cooperate with FDI enterprise to establish value chains in the electronics industry.

Three factors must be in place to be able to become suppliers of global technology giants – quality, on-time delivery and reasonable price, she said.

According to Việt Nam Industry Agency, the capacity of domestic electronics enterprises remained limited, while the product quality and design had not met market demand.

There were emerging names recently, such as Bphone, Vsmart and Viettel, but foreign names were still dominant.

The local procurement rate was also low, only at around five to 10 per cent. Electronic products in the Vietnamese market were mainly imported or assembled from imported components.

Some companies managed to participate in the industry’s supply chains but most could only supply products of low value and technology content.

The Việt Nam Industry Agency said that domestic electronic enterprises must improve their capacity to be able to participate in the supply chains of the FDI enterprises as well as being able to take advantage of opportunities arising from new-generation free trade agreements.

Support should be provided to selected enterprises that take the role in promoting the development of the electronics industry, the agency said.

Besides solutions to expand markets, enterprises should focus on identifying their core products and strengths to create breakthroughs. — VNS