Proposal to relocate city's online gamers to amusement centres

HA NOI — Ha Noi's Information and Communications Department yesterday suggested that online games businesses relocate to amusement zones in supermarkets to allow the city to manage the sector more easily.

The idea was proposed during a meeting to establish new management policies for online games businesses between the Ministry of Information and Communications and municipal authorities.

Head of the department Pham Quoc Ban said the city had already shut down games shops within 200m of schools and instructed internet service providers to cut services to games shops after 11pm.

He said that these methods had not been particularly effective. Many shops closed their doors at 11pm but remained open for business using alternative internet connections, Ban added.

"Many gamers are willing to pay a lot to play these online games, which has helped businesses earn large profits," said a ministry representative. "This makes it very hard to manage this sector."

Ban argued that when online game businesses operated in these specified areas, it would be easier to control their games' content and their opening hours.

"Many supermarkets including Hapro have already agreed to accommodate online games businesses and have even said they wouldn't charge them any rent for the first few months," Ban said.

The majority of officials in the meeting agreed with Ban's arguments, but some doubted the practicality of his ideas.

A representative from the Inspection Office of the Information and Communications Department said amusement zones were limited in size and infrastructure, so relocating online gaming shops to these areas would be difficult.

According to the department, in September Ha Noi closed down more than 300 online gaming shops that had broken municipal regulations. — VNS

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Businesses honored for fighting HIV/AIDS

Photo: AFP

Ten businesses have been honored for preventing the spread of HIV and generating jobs for HIV positive people and high-risk individuals.

They were selected from more than 130 businesses involved in the USAID-funded project on workplace-based prevention and employment and supportive services for high-risk individuals in Vietnam (USAID HIV Workplace).

These businesses have applied a non-discrimination policy for people living with HIV/AIDS, employed HIV carriers and contributed finance to assist HIV sufferers in the community.

Around 90 percent of workers at these businesses have got access to information on HIV prevention and control and 125 HIV carriers and former drug users have worked without discrimination.

The businesses have contributed more than VND156.6 million to grant scholarships and increase income for 27 people living with HIV.

The US$3 million project, sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), started in Sept. 2008 and will last for five years.

The project is intended to prevent HIV infection among high-risk individuals and to provide employment opportunities and economic rehabilitation services for people living with HIV/AIDS and other high risk individuals, to help reduce discrimination and stigma.

The project has provided technical assistance to more than 130 businesses who are members of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in implementing the workplace-based HIV prevention policy for 128,000 workers and providing jobs for 456 HIV carriers and high-risk individuals.

Also at the ceremony held in Hanoi on Thursday, it was announced that 17 new HIV carriers and high-risk individuals will receive assistance from businesses.

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Businesses honored for fighting HIV/AIDS

Photo: AFP

Ten businesses have been honored for preventing the spread of HIV and generating jobs for HIV positive people and high-risk individuals.

They were selected from more than 130 businesses involved in the USAID-funded project on workplace-based prevention and employment and supportive services for high-risk individuals in Vietnam (USAID HIV Workplace).

These businesses have applied a non-discrimination policy for people living with HIV/AIDS, employed HIV carriers and contributed finance to assist HIV sufferers in the community.

Around 90 percent of workers at these businesses have got access to information on HIV prevention and control and 125 HIV carriers and former drug users have worked without discrimination.

The businesses have contributed more than VND156.6 million to grant scholarships and increase income for 27 people living with HIV.

The US$3 million project, sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), started in Sept. 2008 and will last for five years.

The project is intended to prevent HIV infection among high-risk individuals and to provide employment opportunities and economic rehabilitation services for people living with HIV/AIDS and other high risk individuals, to help reduce discrimination and stigma.

The project has provided technical assistance to more than 130 businesses who are members of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in implementing the workplace-based HIV prevention policy for 128,000 workers and providing jobs for 456 HIV carriers and high-risk individuals.

Also at the ceremony held in Hanoi on Thursday, it was announced that 17 new HIV carriers and high-risk individuals will receive assistance from businesses.

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Ten businesses honoured for fighting HIV/AIDS

Ten businesses has been honoured for preventing the spread of HIV and generating jobs for HIV positive people and high-risk individuals.

They were selected from more than 130 businesses involved in the USAID-funded project on workplace-based prevention and employment and supportive services for high-risk individuals in Vietnam (USAID HIV Workplace).

These businesses have applied a non-discrimination policy for people living with HIV/AIDS, employed HIV carriers and contributed finance to assist HIV sufferers in the community.

Around 90 percent of workers at these businesses have got access to information on HIV prevention and control and 125 HIV carriers and former drug users have worked without discrimination.

The businesses have contributed more than 156.6 million VND to grant scholarships and increase income for 27 people living with HIV.

The 3 million USD project, sponsored by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), started in Sept. 2008 and will last for five years.

The project is intended to prevent HIV infection among high-risk individuals and to provide employment opportunities and economic rehabilitation services for people living with HIV/AIDS and other high risk individuals, to help reduce discrimination and stigma.

The project has provided technical assistance to more than 130 businesses who are members of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in implementing the workplace-based HIV prevention policy for 128,000 workers and providing jobs for 456 HIV carriers and high-risk individuals.

Also at the ceremony held in Hanoi on Sept. 23, it was announced that 17 new HIV carriers and high-risk individuals will receive assistance from businesses./.

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3,000 people to walk for Hanoi’s millennium

Over 3,000 representatives from Hanoi-based businesses and organisations will walk around Hoan Kiem Lake on September 26 to mark the 1000 th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi.

The event is being jointly held by UNESCO’s Corporate Culture Centre, the Hoang Dung Media Company, the Mekong Trading Joint Stock Company and Vietnam Synergy Ltd.

The participants will include Party and State officials, representatives from the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, Vietnam’s Union of Science and Technology, the Vietnamese Association for Encouraging Study, the Vietnam Association of Victims of Agent Orange/Dioxide, the Vietnamese Family Planning Association, the National Fund for Vietnamese Children and several media agencies.

It is also a chance for Hanoi’s businesses to show how responsible they are on the environment, express sympathy to Agent Orange victims and disadvantaged children as well as express a determination to build and develop sustainable businesses during international and regional integration./.

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More chance for disabled to start businesses

Up to 640 disabled people in the central city of Da Nang are expected to make a living from jobs suitable to their health, provided by a US$1 million project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID)

Photo: VNA

Up to 640 disabled people in the central city of Da Nang are expected to make a living from jobs suitable to their health, provided by a US$1 million project funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

The project, which will run until 2011, will also provide start-up capital and tool kits for another 1,200 disabled people or carers to boost local household economy. The funding will be available for the families of 1,500 disabled people to ensure steady and adequate incomes that will benefit 2,250 children and 1,120 other family members apart from the disabled people themselves.

The project will also support 1,000 disabled people to join self-reliance groups and 40 businesses to recruit disabled people.

Project manager Nguyen Thi Thu Ha said that as a result, over 300 disabled people have found employment, over 770 disabled people have been provided with loans and tool kits, 430 others have joined self-reliance groups and 32 enterprises have recruited disabled people.

Ha added that in the future, the project will focus on vocational training for the disabled, based on market demands and encourage the target group to start up family businesses.

Courses in budget management and market surveys will also be held for the disabled, she said.

Ha promised that the projects executives will work with local authorities to solve problems regarding loan procedures for the disabled to encourage household businesses.

The social organizations involved in the project include Save the Children and the Integration Development Action Board.

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Vietnam seizes 13 foreigners on suspicion of fraud

Vietnamese police have arrested 13 foreigners in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho for allegedly cheating businesses in Taiwan and mainland China with hi-tech supported tricks.

According to investigators, the suspects were part of a ring with 200 members, 99 of whom were nabbed in Ho Chi Minh City last month.

Initial investigations showed that the smaller ring, led by Taiwanese Chen-Wei-Wen, used Internet-based voice communication services to call businesses, posing as Chinese or Taiwanese police and telling the latter that their bank accounts had been used by money launderers.

The targeted businesses would be asked to press number 9 to contact police who were in charge of the case, and would hear fake voices of police talking and sounds of typing, investigators said.

The businesses were then convinced to transfer money from their account to one said to belong to the police as a security measure.

Another trick was to inform businesses they had huge outstanding phone bills and ask them to contact the police in charge also by pressing number 9, according to investigators, adding that the businesses would be asked to transfer money to pay the bills.

Chen-Wei-Wen told the police for each successful case, his ring would receive 60-80 percent of the cheated money.

He said they had rented a house on the outskirts of Can Tho. They had just set up the Internet and were yet to conduct any scam when they were arrested last Friday (August 13).

Police from the Ministry of Public Security and Can Tho City confiscated laptops, phones and 50 scripts for ring members to use when they posed as Vietnamese agencies like the police, banks and prosecutors’ offices, from the house, investigators said, adding that the ring tried to stop them with tear gas during their raid.

HCMC police previously said the organization's ringleaders were based in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian countries, and employed various fraudulent tricks.

According to Interpol, these types of criminals first appeared in Taiwan several years ago. They stole hundreds of thousands to a million dollars in each case.

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Vietnam seizes 13 foreigners on suspicion of fraud

Vietnamese police have arrested 13 foreigners in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho for allegedly cheating businesses in Taiwan and mainland China with hi-tech supported tricks.

According to investigators, the suspects were part of a ring with 200 members, 99 of whom were nabbed in Ho Chi Minh City last month.

Initial investigations showed that the smaller ring, led by Taiwanese Chen-Wei-Wen, used Internet-based voice communication services to call businesses, posing as Chinese or Taiwanese police and telling the latter that their bank accounts had been used by money launderers.

The targeted businesses would be asked to press number 9 to contact police who were in charge of the case, and would hear fake voices of police talking and sounds of typing, investigators said.

The businesses were then convinced to transfer money from their account to one said to belong to the police as a security measure.

Another trick was to inform businesses they had huge outstanding phone bills and ask them to contact the police in charge also by pressing number 9, according to investigators, adding that the businesses would be asked to transfer money to pay the bills.

Chen-Wei-Wen told the police for each successful case, his ring would receive 60-80 percent of the cheated money.

He said they had rented a house on the outskirts of Can Tho. They had just set up the Internet and were yet to conduct any scam when they were arrested last Friday (August 13).

Police from the Ministry of Public Security and Can Tho City confiscated laptops, phones and 50 scripts for ring members to use when they posed as Vietnamese agencies like the police, banks and prosecutors’ offices, from the house, investigators said, adding that the ring tried to stop them with tear gas during their raid.

HCMC police previously said the organization's ringleaders were based in China, Hong Kong, Singapore and other Asian countries, and employed various fraudulent tricks.

According to Interpol, these types of criminals first appeared in Taiwan several years ago. They stole hundreds of thousands to a million dollars in each case.

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