Cần Thơ fines four illegal foreign workers

The Cần Thơ City People’s Committee has fined four Chinese citizens for entering Việt Nam with tourism visas, but then working on a construction site for a waste treatment plant.

Employees could work more overtime

Employees could work up to 400 hours of overtime per year compared to the current 200 hours under the revised Labour Code which will be submitted to the National Assembly next year.

e-Gov’t focuses on cyber security

 Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has approved a project on supervising the cyber security of IT services and systems that form the foundation of e-Government operations.

HIV increase sparks free tests

The Ministry of Health has asked the northern province of Phú Thọ to conduct HIV/AIDS tests free of charge for local people in Kim Thượng Commune and those living in surrounding areas.

Mekong Delta reinforces dykes as water levels rise

Provinces in the Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta region are taking steps to protect households and crops from flooding as water levels are expected to rise quickly in the next few days, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

Delta provinces prepare for upcoming academic year

The education sector in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are preparing for the new school year, investing in and upgrading infrastructure and building new facilities, especially at boarding schools for ethnic minorities.

No weed killer ban just yet

The Plant Protection Department under Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development will ban the use of glyphosate, an active ingredient in many weed killers when there is enough evidence proving the herbicide has impacts on human health, said Hoàng Trung, head of the department.

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