Troubled by low fertility rates in the southern provinces, the Ministry of Health has proposed relaxing the country’s two-child policy in order to allow Vietnamese parents to decide the number of children they want.

With labour migration on the rise across ASEAN, countries like Việt Nam, which sends a large number of workers abroad and relies on remittances for 7 per cent of its GDP, should strengthen protections for workers while lowering barriers to their mobility, argues a new World Bank report released yesterday in Singapore.

Cameras designed to tackle rampant traffic violations in Việt Nam are sowing confusion among drivers suddenly confronted with fines without being aware of any wrongdoing on their part.  

Amid increasing demand for talent from existing and newly established businesses, employers are facing challenges in finding the right candidates, according to a recent snapshot report on Việt Nam’s labour market by Adecco Vietnam, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based workforce solutions provider.

The public assets procurement centre for the city’s healthcare sector was dissolved after three years of operation under a decision by HCM City’s People’s Committee.

The Ministry of Transport has agreed to reduce the toll for vehicles using the BOT (Build-Operation-Transfer) bypass in Biên Hòa City of the southern province of Đồng Nai.

Police and forest rangers of Huế City in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế are in co-operation to identify the persons who illegally cut down 3,000sq.m of special-use pine forest last month.

Rains up to 250mm are forecast along the coastal central provinces from Thanh Hóa to Quảng Ngãi on Monday (October 9) evening. This is attributed to the impact of a tropical low-pressure system, moving west-northwest at 25km per hour.

Associate Professor Văn Như Cương, 80, principal of Hà Nội-based Lương Thế Vinh High School, passed away early Monday in Hà Nội after fighting cancer for three years.