Thursday, August 12, 2010

Dump stench leaves hospital feeling sick


At the present time, some people may think about hospital as the first place they can go when they get sick. Then hospital is a place where people can get back to good health. In this post, however, I would like to talk about stench from a rubbish dump behind northern Bac Ninh Province's Luong Tai District Hospital that made both patients and staff ill. The reason why I choose this news article is because this misery situation is happened near a very important place. Hospital should be the cleanest place which protected from the bacteria, isn't it?

In this news article, it was said that the wastes from Thua town were delivered by numerous garbage trucks to the dump of about 6,000 sq.m. everyday. This 10-year-old dump is about 35km. north of Ha Noi. Patients and staff that stayed in the hospital had to suffer the fetid smell. Furthermore, the garbage dump also attracted swarms of flies that carried the threat of disease. The hospital deputy director Pham Van Vu said that he have asked the Thua People's Committee to remove the dump numberless times since 2006 but his requests have been ignored from them. In addition, the hospital statistics show that about 300 patients are examined and treated at the hospital each day. Moreover, the number of pregnant women it admits each year is almost 2,000. Because of the fetid smell they often leave the hospital early after they have given birth. Therefore, the plan of 36,000-sq.m landfill at another site of the town which put to the provincial People's Committee by Nguyen Dang had been rejected because it failed to meet environmental protection standards. The People's Committee was now assessing another place for a new rubbish dump. Although the complaints of both the hospital and local residents had been received from Thua People's Committee, the committee was also awaiting instructions from the provincial People's Committee which show to how to deal with the problem.

In my opinion, I think it was a really serious problem that the committee should solve this problem as soon as possible. It is happened for 10 years already. Moreover, the dump is very close to the hospital which have many ill people stay in there. This garbage dump also caused many disease which carried from flies of garbage. To compare with Thailand, I haven't heard anything about the rubbish dump near hospital before. But most of the dump stench are causing problem to the people who stay near to the river. Because they always throw the rubbish into the river. Over all, Thai's government are also encourage people who stay near to the river not to drop any wastes into the river.

Sunday, August 8, 2010

HCM City proposes to ban online games



Nowadays, the new technology such as internet, computer, telephone and cars are became a part of everyone life. I think the most important technology for human being is internet. We always use it to connect with other people from difference country. It is very useful. For teenagers, it can be useless if they use in the wrong way. In this post, however, I would like to talk about online game business that cause evil effects to many young people in Vietnam. The reason why I choose this article is because almost of games online now are become more and more violence. We should take a serious look at it.

In the article, it was said that Ho Chi Minh City Chairman Le Haong Quan has sent an urgent dispatch to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung to regulate the development and import of online games for their harmful effect. The city suggest that the government should order the Ministry of Information and Communications to collect and make public standards which rate the violence level of online games. However, the ministry could reconsider already licensed online games and accept only games that do not involve violence, gambling or pornography to continued circulation. What's more, new games need to be rate strictly and assessing the social impact before allow licenses. In order to encourage playing game online, the government should support a ban on advertising online games similar to ban on alcoholic beverages and tobacco advertisement. Moreover, online games should be completely banned from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. The game players must be allowed to play only three hours a day. Finally, the big city such as Ho Chi Minh and other big cities must join the council for appraising the content of new online games because it have so many game players. It is estimated that 2 to 3 million young people play online games in Vietnam.

From my view point, I think it is necessary for the government to take part in this problem. It can be say that this is a serious problem for young Vietnamese because games online are effected to them the most. Similarity, Thai young people also games online addicted. Most of the time when I passed internet cafe I will saw many of young people playing game online. They are not only played in the break time or after school but also in the whole day. However, we should encourage young people to do other activities or sport rather than playing games.