Human trafficker arrested on plane

Jakarta (VNA) – The Indonesian Military has found the bodies of 12 victims aboard an MI-17 army helicopter that disappeared in June last year after taking off from an airport in Papua province’s Oksibil district, the Antara News reported. A rescue team from the Banteng Raider Infantry Battalion of the Cendrawasih Military Command in Papua managed to reach the location at noon of February 15 and found the bodies among the wreckage. The recovery team’s coordinator Binsar Sianipar said that nine bodies can be identified from their clothes and attributes, while the identification of the remaining needs more time. Given the bad weather and difficult terrain, he stated that the team was not able to recover the bodies immediately. The bodies will be brought down to a point that can be reached by helicopters, he added. Thhe MI-17 helicopter with 12 people on board went missing on June 28, 2019 while flying to Okbibab from Oksibil to deliver supplies to soldiers … [Read more...] about Indonesia: Bodies of victims on missing army plane found after 8 months

In its latest report, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species also noted that despite the overall fall in poaching, Africa's elephant population has continued to drop "due to continued illegal killing, land transformation and rapid human expansion." … [Read more...] about Elephant poaching in Africa falls but ivory seizures up: study

In one recent case late last month, Saigon police busted a drug trafficking ring from Laos to Saigon worth about VND1 billion ($43,000). Six people were arrested, with about seven kilograms of drugs, over 500 ecstasy pills, six guns, dozens of bullets and other weapons as seized evidence, said police Thursday. … [Read more...] about Saigon drug haul up tenfold year-on-year: police

Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Private higher education plays an important role in promoting human resource quality, however, policies to develop private universities still face obstacles. Educational experts think that the key goal is to address obstacles in the relations between the State and private sector to reduce pressure on public universities. Vietnam’s education strategy in the 2009-2020 period aims to expand private higher education institutions so that 40 percent of students select private universities. However, this target seems out of reach as in recent years, the number of students enrolling in private universities has kept declining. It is estimated that currently only 15 percent of students nationwide register for private higher education. A lot of majors at private universities no longer exist because they did not enroll enough students. Vietnam’s experiences run counter to an emerging trend in developing countries in which public education investment drops and … [Read more...] about Private higher education institutions face hurdles

“Our transferred programmes are evaluated by German experts. After any session, trainees have to fill an assessment form. These programmes also ask trainees to have a one-year internship at companies, accounting for 30 per cent of the curricula,” said Đồng Văn Ngọc, director of Hà Nội College of Electro-mechanics.  … [Read more...] about International vocational training to be extended