Sea turtle protection campaign launched in Hanoi; VDC2 to compensate clients for email breakdown; Viettel to provide wireless fixed phone service for Lao Cai

The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network (TRAFFIC) has launched a sea turtles protection campaign with the theme “For a Hanoi with no more trade of marine turtle” from Nov. 17-30.

The move aims to raise the public’s awareness of the need to protect marine turtle which are facing extinction due to rampant hunting by human for their meat, egg, shell and skin.

The campaign will spread the message that the trade, use, storage, and transport of sea turtles and their products are illegal and will drive these graceful and beautiful creatures into extinction.

Slogans of the campaign will be hung on Hanoi ’s streets, parades by bikes to ancient streets in the city will be organised and radio and TV programmes about sea turtles and sea turtle protection broadcast.

Only seven species of marine turtle still exist in the world, of them five have been found in Vietnam ’s waters. All the five species of sea turtle in Vietnam have been classified as endangered and critical endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Although Vietnam’s also strictly bans all acts of selling, purchase and transport of marine turtles for commercial purpose, marine turtles have been hunted not only for cooking as a delicacy but also for materials to prepare traditional medicines and produce luxury articles, due to poor public awareness of the regulations.

(Source: TTXVN)

VDC2 to compensate clients for email breakdown

The Vietnam Data Centre, Region 2 (VDC2) has apologised to and committed to compensating customers who suffered from the failed mail services from November 10-13.

On these days, VDC’s clients who use the mail system with hcm.vnn.vn domain couldn’t send or receive emails.

VDC2 said it will compensate these customers by deducting 10% from their monthly service charges in November.

(Source: NLD)

Viettel to provide wireless fixed phone service for Lao Cai

The Army Telecom Corporation (Viettel) and the northern province of Lao Cai last week signed an agreement, under which Viettel will provide free-of-charge wireless fixed telephones for all families in Lao Cai.

Viettel will also help bring Internet to all government agencies and schools in Lao Cai and help the local authorities develop its Centre for IT and Post.

The corporation will build a conference centre and hotel complex on 20-30ha of land in Lao Cai and assist in some afforestation projects in some border communes.

(Source: ICTNews)