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.
The night of Tuesday maybe the longest and creepiest night for those people who kept waiting in pain throughout the night to hear any information about their beloved ones who were believed to be among the victims of a karaoke bar blaze in Hà Nội’s Cầu Giấy District.
We’re living in a society where school violence is heard of everyday and becoming more and more serious. While my heart hurts and I almost feel outrageous seeing some kids hitting other helpless ones in some clips that went viral in Việt Nam recently, my mind goes numbing knowing that some of the bullied either died or committed suicide later.
The first draft of Việt Nam’s latest anti-corruption law was published in late June by the Government Inspectorate and has been attracting comment and debate from all sectors of society. If all goes according to schedule, the draft will be submitted to the National Assembly in November of this year.
I did some research and found that the cow belonged to a farmer in Tuyên Hóa District, Quảng Bình Province. He said the flood waters rose to a three-metre high “too quickly” and swept the cow away as he was moving stuff in his house.
Under the Finance Ministry’s newly-issued decision, from October 1, six deputy ministers and heads of the ministry departments will have taxi fares subsidised, depending on the distance from the official’s house to the Ministry of Finance.
At a meeting with HCM City People’s Council last week, a principal of a local public primary school burst into tears while talking about a harsh prohibition in which schools are no longer permitted to operate extra classes.
Most Vietnamese, even students, don’t usually give a second thought to what they sometimes hear on the news or read in the paper: public university’s financial autonomy. The idea is somewhat vague, distant at a macro-level and generally holds no direct link to common folk. It was not until the prominent National Economics University (NEU) last month introduced a tuition hike of up to 30 per cent for the upcoming academic year did it dawn on people what financial autonomy really means.
As children across the country return to school after the summer break, a little spoken about yet very real and imperative issue has come under the spotlight: unhygienic school toilets.
Nothing is worse than being convicted of a crime you didn’t commit.
Not only is your freedom taken away, sometimes your life, it can also hurt your loved ones unimaginably.
Though casting a fairly positive light on Việt Nam’s irrefutable achievements in ensuring religious and belief freedom, the annual report on global religious freedom issued by the US Department of State on August 10 still contains contents exposing a narrow mindset, biased outlook and a lack of goodwill.
The main job of the police is to prevent crime and investigate criminals. That’s the expectation worldwide that even a six year-old child can tell.
This explains the public uproar in Việt Nam when a police officer leading a gang of five beat a couple to the point where the man was covered with blood and his pregnant fiancée fainted. The incident happened only a few weeks ago, in July, in Cẩm Xuyên District of central Hà Tĩnh Province.
The use of millions of dong from the state budget by a Government official from the central Bình Định province to study what turned out to be a fraudlent PhD course abroad has stirred public outcry in recent days.
A joke about a customer going to a tattoo shop to get tattoos all over her body to clarify the various body parts has gone viral after a series of medical errors involving wrong-site surgeries have recently occurred in Việt Nam.
People are asking why it has become increasingly common for leaders who are at the end of their tenures to appoint staff to leadership positions in State agencies and corporations in a non-transparent fashion.
The Hague’s Arbitral Tribunal on Tuesday finally rendered its long-awaited landmark ruling on the case of the Philippines versus China over claims to the East Sea (South China Sea).
Summers are hot and humid in southern Việt Nam, as elsewhere in the country, and there is nothing surprising or controversial about local leaders traveling to and for work in air-conditioned cars.
When people with different ideas come together and argue, it benefits not just the individual participants, but society as a whole, because the merits and demerits of an idea or project get highlighted, helping the public (and the Government) make informed choices.
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