What are the 15 venues for organizing fireworks displays in Ho Chi Minh City for the Lunar New Year 2025? Will students engaged in the illegal trade of fireworks in Vietnam face disciplinary action?

What are the 15 venues for organizing fireworks displays in Ho Chi Minh City for the Lunar New Year 2025?

Below is the list of 15 venues for organizing fireworks displays in Ho Chi Minh City for the Lunar New Year 2025:

2 high-altitude fireworks display venues

- Saigon River Tunnel Area (Thu Duc City)

- Ben Duoc Martyrs Memorial (Cu Chi District)

13 low-altitude fireworks display venues

- Thao Dien Urban Area (Thu Duc City)

- Saigon River Area (Thu Duc City), 500m from Rach Chiec Bridge (fireworks on a barge)

- Rach Dia Bridge Area (Nha Be District - fireworks on a barge)

- Dam Sen Cultural Park (District 11)

- Northwest Industrial Park (Cu Chi)

- Rung Sac Martyrs Memorial (Can Gio District)

- Ben Noc Memorial (Thu Duc City)

- Administrative Center Square of District 7

- 38ha Residential Area Park (Tan Thoi Nhat Ward, District 12)

- Hoa Binh Square (Go Vap District)

- Nga Ba Giong Martyrs Memorial (Hoc Mon District)

- Binh Dien Market Area (District 8)

- Memorial for the 1968 Tet Offensive and Uprising (Binh Chanh District)

Fireworks display time: From 0:00 to 0:15 on January 29, 2025.

The list of 15 venues for organizing fireworks displays in Ho Chi Minh City for the Lunar New Year 2025 is for reference only!

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Will students engaged in the illegal trade of fireworks in Vietnam face disciplinary action?

In Official Dispatch 8258/BGDDT-GDCTHSSV of 2024, the Ministry of Education and Training requires the departments of education and training; parent universities, academies, universities, and pedagogical schools to thoroughly implement the following content:

1. Regarding security order, crime prevention, and fire prevention

a) Enhance the propaganda and education for students to adopt a civilized lifestyle, maintain social order, improve skills on accident and injury prevention, avoid social vices, ensure security order, and school safety. Raise awareness and responsibility for self-prevention against the methods and approaches of various types of crime, especially crimes operating in cyberspace, black credit crimes, asset misappropriation crimes, social vices, gambling, football betting, commercial fraud, public disturbance, and resistance against law enforcement officers during the Lunar New Year.

b) Ensure shifts and protect agencies, guarantee absolute safety of physical facilities, prevent and combat fire and explosion during the New Year holiday; carry out propaganda and education for students, strictly prohibit students from participating in the production, purchase, sale, transportation, storage, and illegal use of weapons, explosives, support tools, and explosive fireworks. Comply with regulations and conditions to ensure fire and explosion prevention. Have solutions to guarantee the 2024 - 2025 academic year plan after the Lunar New Year holiday.

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According to Clause 2, Article 38 of the lower secondary school, upper secondary school and multi-level school charter promulgated with Circular 32/2020/TT-BGDDT, the reward and discipline for students are regulated as follows:

Reward and discipline

1. Teachers, secondary schools and education authorities shall reward students with learning and training achievements in the following ways:

a) Commend them in front of the class or the whole school.

b) Grant them titles for students according to regulations.

c) Grant certificates and certificates of merit to students with outstanding achievements or exceptional improvement in learning or emulation movements and competition winners according to regulations and with permission from the Ministry of Education and Training.

d) Other ways to reward.

2. Students making a mistake during the learning and training process shall be corrected or disciplined in the following ways:

a) Give the student a reminder, directly support them in correcting their mistake.

b) Reprimand the student, inform the student’s parent(s) to have the parent(s) cooperate in supporting the student in correcting their mistake.

c) Suspend the student’s study at school for a definite period and take other correcting measures according to regulations from the Ministry of Education and Training.

During the Lunar New Year 2025, the Ministry of Education and Training strictly prohibits students from participating in the production, purchase, sale, transportation, storage, and illegal use of weapons, explosives, support tools, and explosive fireworks.

Students engaged in the illegal trade of fireworks may face disciplinary actions including:

- Give the student a reminder, directly support them in correcting their mistake.

- Reprimand the student, inform the student’s parent(s) to have the parent(s) cooperate in supporting the student in correcting their mistake.

- Suspend the student’s study at school for a definite period and take other correcting measures according to regulations from the Ministry of Education and Training.

Who has the power to make disciplinary decisions for students in Vietnam?

According to point d, Clause 1, Article 11 of the lower secondary school, upper secondary school and multi-level school charter promulgated with Circular 32/2020/TT-BGDDT, the regulations are as follows:

School principal and deputy principals

1. School principal

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d) Duties and rights of principal:

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- Submit reports on and assessment of implementation of the school’s education plan and decisions issued by the school council to the school council and competent authorities;

- Recruit and manage teachers and staff; sign labor contracts with teachers and staff, and receive and relocate teachers and staff; manage academic matters; assign tasks to teachers and staff, inspect and evaluate teachers and staff; and reward and discipline teachers and staff as prescribed by law;

- Manage students and student activities organized by the school; approve student assessment results, sign school report books, sign written confirmation of completion of primary education program for primary school students (if any) of multi-level schools, grant certificate of completion of general education program to upper secondary students (if any) and decide rewards and discipline for students;

- Manage the school’s finance and property;

- Provide state benefits for teachers, staff and students; comply with regulations on democracy and accountability of heads of educational institutions in organization of their institutions’ activities; facilitate privatization of education in the school;

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The issuance of decisions to award or discipline students is one of the principal's duties and powers. Therefore, the school principal shall make disciplinary decisions for students in Vietnam.