Việt Nam News

A Taiwanese footwear company in the Mekong Delta province of Trà Vinh has announced plans to fire more than 10,000 workers just days ahead of the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday, the provincial Labour Union reported.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the Ministry of Public Security to investigate and strictly handle the organisations and individuals who illegally traffic Vietnamese people abroad via tourism routes, reported online newspaper Vietnamnet.vn.

Holiday spirit seems to be in short supply at the Ministry of Transport (MoT), as the body has rejected a proposal to waive road tolls for the first three days of the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has told ministries, sectors and localities that consolidating macro-economic stability and promoting growth is their most important task for 2019.

Tân An Bridge that helps connect the Mekong Delta province of An Giang with Cambodia was inaugurated on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday approved the general planning for Thanh Hoá City and Thanh Hoá urban master planning up to 2040.

Customs forces in the northern city of Hải Phòng discovered nearly 1.4 tonnes of pangolin scales and 20 elephant tusks weighing more than 100kg hidden inside a container shipped from Nigeria.

Việt Nam will host the 12th Intergovernmental Regional Environmentally Sustainable Transport Forum in Asia (EST 12) this year, said the Ministry of Transport.

 The Prime Minister’s working group made a field trip to Hải Phòng Port on Tuesday to inspect a huge number of containers of scrap materials and waste which are building up at major sea ports in Việt Nam.

The share of job seekers who are using formal channels (employment services) is growing in Việt Nam, but still accounts for a minority of the job search channels used. Most jobs in the country today are filled through personal contacts, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The People’s Court of Hoà Bình City yesterday handed down sentences to seven defendants implicated in a serious medical incident that killed nine patients at the provincial General Hospital on May 29, 2017.

Sugarcane farmers in the Mekong Delta are facing losses during the harvest of the 2018-19 sugarcane crop because of low prices and yield.

In 2017, not long after starting working for Company 78 under Legion no. 15 in Sa Thầy District, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, the family of Ja Rai ethnic Y Hoăn was twinned with the family of Vũ Thị Bắc, a company veteran.

The Ministry of Health has set a target to reduce hospital violence by between 15 and 20 per cent by 2020.

Phan Huy Chú High School teacher Nguyễn Kim Anh has assigned her students the task of helping their parents with preparations for the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The Hà Nội Department of Transport has requested transportation businesses publicise their fares and not illegally increase prices during the Tết (Lunar New Year) holiday.

The Vietnam Food Administration (VFA) under the Ministry of Health has issued a warning about batches of Modilac baby formula products suspected of Salmonella infection imported to Viet Nam.

Hà Nội has set a goal this year to limit the imbalance in the sex ratio of births at the current rate of 113 girls per 100 boys.