Mother asks police to investigate child’s accident at school

A woman in Ho Chi Minh City has asked police to investigate a case where her four-year-old son was critically injured at his nursery.

Du Thi Thanh Thuy Friday said that on September 17 her son, Le Quang Vinh, was hospitalized with multiple injuries to the head, eyes, limbs and stomach.

At first, Tran Thi Xuan Nu, Vinh's teacher at Hoa Lan Nursery in Tan Phu District, said he fell down the stairs, according to Thuy.

However, doctors refused to believe Nu and the teacher later added that Vinh had been stuck in the school's food elevator, she said.

In a report addressed to the Tan Phu education division four days later, Nu said she put Vinh in the elevator as punishment for refusing to eat his food. She closed the door and put it into operation so as to scare him.

According to Thuy, her son has undergone a couple of operations over the past month. He is still scared of strangers, refuses to return home, which is near the school, and cries a lot.

Meanwhile, a representative from the nursery said on Friday that Tan Phu Commune authorities have temporarily closed the school from November 1 to 21.

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Mother asks police to investigate child’s accident at school

A woman in Ho Chi Minh City has asked police to investigate a case where her four-year-old son was critically injured at his nursery.

Du Thi Thanh Thuy Friday said that on September 17 her son, Le Quang Vinh, was hospitalized with multiple injuries to the head, eyes, limbs and stomach.

At first, Tran Thi Xuan Nu, Vinh's teacher at Hoa Lan Nursery in Tan Phu District, said he fell down the stairs, according to Thuy.

However, doctors refused to believe Nu and the teacher later added that Vinh had been stuck in the school's food elevator, she said.

In a report addressed to the Tan Phu education division four days later, Nu said she put Vinh in the elevator as punishment for refusing to eat his food. She closed the door and put it into operation so as to scare him.

According to Thuy, her son has undergone a couple of operations over the past month. He is still scared of strangers, refuses to return home, which is near the school, and cries a lot.

Meanwhile, a representative from the nursery said on Friday that Tan Phu Commune authorities have temporarily closed the school from November 1 to 21.

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Group grants heritage listing to mango trees

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Nine centuries-old bachang mango or Mangifera foetida trees have been recognized as Vietnam’s Heritage Trees by the Vietnam Association for Nature and Environment.

These trees are located in Hanoi's Voi Phuc Temple of Thuy Chuong Village in Thuy Khue Ward of Tay Ho District. Nguyen Van Tung, 77, head of the management board of the Voi Phuc Temple, told a story of a group of Japanese researchers who, in 1999, asked him to help determine the age of the mango trees.

"After investigating, measuring and using tools to drill holes in the trees, it was concluded that the trees were between 700-1,000 years old," Tung said.

The Voi Phuc Temple, completed in 1077, was built on Thuy Khue Street in honor of Prince Linh Lang, who sacrificed himself during a fight against foreign invaders. In memory of the prince locals planted nine mango trees around the temple to create a fresh and cool place for worshippers to pray, said Tung.

"Locals chose to plant mango trees because they are known to be strong, have a long life-expectancy and boast large branches," said Tung.

Thuy Chuong villagers pledged to join hands in preserving the rare trees by not building near them, cutting them down, or damaging them in any way.

Nguyen Nguyen Cuong, director of the centre for Education and Communications and Environment under the Vietnam Unions for Science and Technology, who is also the head of a project that protects old trees in Hanoi, said these trees are valuable Vietnamese assets.

"Since 2008 our researchers have investigated and created a map of the oldest trees in Hanoi," Cuong told Viet Nam News.

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