Just before the four-day-long vacation last weekend, Hà Nội People’s Committee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung issued a direction to stop the super priority of the bus rapid transit (BRT) in the city by piloting to let the ordinary buses to also run in the BRT-dedicated lanes.
Unclaimed violating motorbikes sold for scrap: Saving or wasting?
Assaulting other people is cruel and unacceptable, particularly when it comes to doctors who are trying to save people’s lives.
A young girl recently shared a sadden story about the death of her father on Facebook. The 48-year-old man died of drinking methanol-tainted alcohol, the tragedy that the Hanoian said she never thought of even though she said she was aware of such type of accidents now and then from the media.
I can’t bear the fact either.
The boom of private health care service is never ever blooming as now. But also never ever so many violations are found.
A 13-year-old girl in Cà Mau Province and her family reported to local police that she was abused by a neighbour eight times and petitioned that the perpetrator be taken to court. The answer they got from the police last November was a decision not to investigate further because “there was not enough evidence”.
A much acclaimed drive to clear pavements of encroachments will not succeed in the long-term without a public culture of obeying traffic laws
Taking a deep breath and calming down before responding to someone or something is good advice, and it has become ubiquitous advice of late. But several deep breaths later, one feels like screaming “Not Again”, after the latest deadly train accident that has left three dead, several injured and maybe many more scarred for life.
In what can be described as an overzealous move, authorities in the capital city have seriously drafted a Code of Conduct to “guide and correct” people’s behaviour in public places.
Expressions of anguish and outrage came in thick and fast as two young teachers of the Sen Vàng Kindergarten in Hà Nội, both in their early 20s, were recorded using slippers to slap and beat children, and scolding them rudely and cruelly.
After 30 years of the Đổi mới (Renewal) reform, Việt Nam has recorded significant achievements in socio-economic development, lifting nearly 30 million people out of poverty. However, increasing income and wealth inequality is threatening the progress made in decades.
Here in Việt Nam, a TPP member long hyped as its largest beneficiary, the agreement is no longer an issue of major concern. The focus is on how trade liberalization will move in the coming months and years, with or without the US, and what the new directions are for smaller TPP members, especially export-driven economies like Việt Nam.
Stories about unsavoury incidents at schools have been doing the rounds a lot these days.
However, most of them have involved some kind of misbehaviour by students, followed sometimes by improper responses from teachers or school administrations. The latest one was a bit different.
There are criminals that can be rehabilitated and crimes that can be forgiven.
But child molest must absolutely not be one of them.
Imagine risking your life every day just to go to school.
If you’ve been in Viet Nam long enough, chances are that you’ve heard of all the ways many poor kids in the country, especially in remote and mountainous areas, have to take to go to school.
Aida Hadzialic became the youngest ever minister in the history of Sweden at the age of 27. Before taking office as the Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training in 2014, the talented, young woman who fluently speaks five languages already served as a deputy mayor of the city of Halmstad when she was only 23. Though having to resign following an alcohol limit breach while driving in August, Hadzialic basically represents a breeze of fresh air that every Vietnamese looks for in the Government filled with old men and women who seemed out of breathe catching up with the world moving too fast.
It was around this time last year that the world’s leaders came together and committed to end hunger by 2030. The Sustainable Development Goal to achieve Zero Hunger (SDG2) is an ambitious target, especially for the countries in our Asia-Pacific region including Viet Nam. After all, nearly two-thirds of the world’s undernourished – 490 million people – live among us in what is the biggest and most dynamic yet extremely inequitable region on the planet.
When Việt Nam’s main legislative body, the National Assembly, decided on Tuesday to cancel plans to build two nuclear power plants, many lauded the “courageous” move. There is no denying that this decision would have been really tough, after so many years of planning, spending money on feasibility studies, looking for foreign collaboration, and so on.
The global stock market woke up to Wednesday shaded in a volatile red colour, with the exception of Russia, while the Mexican peso slumped to a record low against the US dollars. Elsewhere in Canada, the immigration website crashed, appeared from being overloaded with a steep spike in access as the result of the US election set to emerge. That was not pretty good omen for the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump.
