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Ho Chi Minh City to use 114 as emergency number

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/23/2016 15:00 GMT + 7

The current separation of numbers for criminal, fire, and medical emergencies will be merged into a single emergency number, 114, according to an official at the municipal information department.

In an interview on Tuesday with local newspaper Thanh Nien, deputy director of the city’s Department of Information and Communications Le Quoc Cuong said his department was working on a plan to unify the current emergency numbers of 113, 114 and 115 into a single number, 114.

The number will be run by a concentrated operation headquarters where all types of emergency reports are received and handled, Cuong said.

Currently, people reporting criminal emergencies in Vietnam are to dial 113, whereupon they would be automatically connected to the respective call center of the area, according to a note by Vietnam’s General Department of Police.

The same process is applied to fire and medical emergency reports, which are received via the 114 and 115 numbers respectively.

The consolidation of emergency numbers into one in Ho Chi Minh City will not affect other locations in Vietnam, where the three current numbers would still apply.

According to Cuong, using three separate call centers for three types of emergencies is inefficient for rescue and lifeguarding missions, since it limits liaison between departments.

Once upgraded and unified, the Command Center under the Ho Chi Minh City Fire Department in charge of the emergency number 114 would be responsible for all emergency reports and authorized to dispatch officers and medics to respond to emergencies, Cuong said.

The deputy director added that the municipal Fire Department’s call center was selected to replace the other two due to it being the most modern and fully-equipped center of the three, while its reputation of fast response to emergency calls was also noted.

The 114 Command Center will be available 24/7 and divided into three shifts, each overseen by commanding officers from the police, fire, and medical departments who have the power to dispatch manpower should the situation call for it, Cuong explained.

The center would have access to city-wide CCTV footage and be equipped with a system that could automatically locate the caller’s location.

Emergency reports by photos or videos sent via social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Viber or Zalo would also be handled by the Command Center in addition to traditional phone calls.

The consolidation is not expected to happen until 2018, Cuong said.

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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News- November 23

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/23/2016 08:28 GMT + 7

Check out what is in the news today, November 23

Society

-- Vietnam’s State President Tran Dai Quang and his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella highlighted their resolve to cement the bilateral cooperation between the two nations during their talks in Rome on Tuesday afternoon (Italy time).

-- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday led a delegation to the 9th Summit of Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle Area. The biennial event, taking place in Cambodia on Wednesday and Thursday, aims to foster solidarity and cooperation between the three countries.


Society

-- Rescue ship SAR 274 of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Centers of Vietnam, based in the central city of Da Nang, brought three crewmen and their fishing boat, whose engine had broken down in Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) sea on Monday morning, back to safety on Tuesday.

-- A water plant located in the outlying district of Hoc Mon in Ho Chi Minh City, capable of turning out 300,000 cubic meters of water per day and night, has been put into operation on Tuesday, raising the city’s total capacity to approximately 2.4 million cubic meters per day and night.

-- The Southern Hydro-Meteorological Station has predicted this year’s rainy reason will last longer than usual in the southern region, which is also expected to experience more weather complications in the next few months.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday retrieved the bodies of a 40-year-old woman and her preschooler from a river in District 2 who had died of suffocation in an alleged suicide.

-- Border guards in the north-central province of Nghe An have confirmed they had worked with police in Xiengkhuang Province in Laos to bust a ring involving four Thai and Laotian suspects in their attempt to traffic 69 cakes of heroin from Laos into Vietnam.


Business

-- At a Tuesday press conference, Minister and chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung put the cessation of a project to build a nuclear power plant in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan down to economic causes, not safety or technology-related reasons, as Vietnam needs to prioritize key projects.

-- Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup on Tuesday inked a comprehensive partnership agreement in logistics and delivery with Japanese global logistics firm Sagawa Holdings.

-- The Ministry of Information and Communications announced on Tuesday that 59 Vietnamese provinces and cities will have their landline phone area codes changed starting mid February 2017.


Lifestyle

-- A century-old grave in Long Khanh Town in Dong Nai Province, neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, has been named a special national relic on Tuesday.

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Read the other hcm thread...recent hv forum...:)

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I just reported bro ss08 missing...:)

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Indeed you have strange cuisine taste :eek: have never tried cooking pickled vege with curry before :eek:

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

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The plane trip back to Sinkie is even worst, low morale liao :(

Cheerios.......SS08 ^_^

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Haiz you missed my pun intended again.........:cool:

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

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Then why you think I wrote that last sentence on having a Indo GF leh :confused:

But then dun pray pray hor no matter what it is still a predominantly muslim country :cool:

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

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That 2 you mentioned is not look forward to but is "lan lan" cos really got no choice :D

Cheerios.....SS08 ^_^

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Alamak machiam "yat sei" meaning "once died" :eek:

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

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Huh??? Apa lu cakap????:confused:

Cheerios.......SS08 ^_^

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is it? I feel high morale leh :)

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that's why I hunt for indo Chinese!
lol.quite swee leh
and if rich..wah ho seh.
then if listen to me a lot...lagi bagus!

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lan lan I remember this hotel in hcm leh
heard got happy ending...

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Just a old folk dialect saying...not really vooking...:)