Việt Nam News

A high-level Swiss delegation toured a garment factory in the southern province of Đồng Nai on Friday to assess positive changes in working conditions and competitiveness of the country’s leading export industry and the fruits of the partnership between the Swiss government, Better Work programme and Vietnamese industry. 

A Vietnamese boat came to the rescue after a Chinese vessel with 32 fishermen on board got into difficulties.

Site clearance for the entire route of Vân Đồn-Móng Cái Expressway project has been completed and the project has now been handed over to the investor, Vũ Văn Hợp, chief of the office of northern Quảng Ninh Province's National Assembly delegation, People's Committee and People’s Council, said.

Dozens of doctors at public hospitals in the southernmost province of Cà Mau have resigned in recent years because of modest salaries, the provincial Department of Health has said.

Fifty-one investors have been selected in the preliminary bidding for seven public-private partnership (PPP) projects for the North-South Expressway.

Local police have discovered a large illegal stone mining site in Bù Gia Mập District in southern Bình Phước Province.

A Vietnamese academic, Hạnh Nguyễn, has won the 2019 Regulating for Decent Work Prize from the International Labour Organisation for her study of the conditions of female migrant workers in Myanmar’s garment factories.

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The total average income from all jobs of wage earners increased in the first quarter of this year, while the unemployment rate dropped significantly during the period, according to the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA).

Tân Thanh Border Gate’s customs staff in the northern province of Lạng Sơn, in co-ordination with local functional forces, have seized 280 packages of goods suspected of being fake Thai goods, a representative of the General Department of Customs said.

The strict application of bio-security standards to farming practices is the most effective measure to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever until vaccine production begins, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường has said.

Minimum wage in Việt Nam has been rising for the last three years, with year-on-year increases of 7.3 per cent,  6.5 per cent and 5.3 per cent in 2017, 2018, and 2019, respectively.

As professions go, you would expect a teacher to not lead a lonely life. Surrounded by hoards of children eager to learn, the job of an educator should be anything but isolated. However, for 55-year-old Phạm Văn Triệu, his daily routine is as lonely as it gets.

Thích Minh Tài, a 41-year-old nun, is gently lulling her adopted baby girl to sleep when the infant hears a small noise and suddenly starts.

Việt Nam’s population has reached 96.2 million people as of April 1, ranking 15th in the world and third in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Earlier this month, the DRVN announced a halt to fee collections from 6pm on July 10 if investors failed to sign a contract appendix to set up the electronic toll collection (ETC) system with the Ministry of Transport (MoT).

Functional forces of the central province of Quảng Nam have managed to contain three fires in Hiệp Đức District’s planted forests.  

The Ministry of Public Security’s Investigation Police Agency has initiated criminal proceedings against the director of Nhật Cường Company, a major mobile phone dealer in Hà Nội, for alleged money laundering.