HCM CITY — Inspectors of the HCM City Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and city police last Friday discovered a warehouse containing 300,000 illegally printed CDs, VCDs and DVDs in Binh Tan District.
Warehouse keeper Vo Thi Ngoc Lan told the officials that the discs were printed at other places and brought to the warehouse for distribution to various parts of the city
Man fined for mobile phone harassment
HCM CITY— Chung Huu Phuoc, 34, of HCM City's District 6 was fined VND7.6 million (US$400) for using his mobile phone to annoy someone at the office of the Party Central Committee in the south.
The police's investigation showed that between April and June this year, Phuoc used seven telephone numbers and made calls to the office.
However, he said, he intended to disturb a person, not the office.
Enterprises still owe social insurance
HUE — As many as 300 companies in central Thua Thien-Hue Province owed social insurance payment worth VND13 billion (US$690,000) since the beginning of this year.
About 4,500 employers and workers were uninsured.
Province Social Insurance vice director Nguyen Truc Phuong said the problem was due to low fine – VND30 million ($1,500) – applied to violators.
Private clinics join Bluestar network
HCM CITY — Marie Stopes International Viet Nam, a non-profit organisation, on September10 enrolled 17 private healthcare providers in HCM City in its Bluestar social franchising network, raising the network's membership in the city to 48.
The organisation together with the Viet Nam Centre for Reproductive Health pioneered the use of social franchising to provide people greater access to quality reproductive healthcare at a reasonable cost through existing private providers, To Thi Kim Hoa, deputy director of the city Department of Health said.
The four-year initiative had also helped the private health sector improve its quality by helping to develop infrastructure and providing traing in clinical skills, sounselling and marketing, she added.
The network, set up in 2007, has 171 members in Ha Noi, Hai Phong and HCM City and the provinces of Khanh Hoa, Binh Duong, Dong Nai and An Giang. — VNS
