Experts discuss methods to end violence, harassment at work

While violence and harassment in the workplace has received increasing attention from the public, a convention by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) will serve as a useful tool enabling people to improve the prevention and response to violence and harassment at work.

Bikes donated to poor children in Đà Nẵng

The Japan-Việt Nam Friendship Association of Kawasaki has donated 200 bicycles to underprivileged children in the districts of Hòa Vang, Cẩm Lệ and Ngũ Hành Sơn of Đà Nẵng city every year since 2003.

Crops destroyed

Heavy rains and strong winds destroyed dozens of hectares of rice and maize crops in different districts in the northern mountainous province of Tuyên Quang.

Japan claims overdue payment in projects

Japan’s JICA lamented the slow payment of the Vietnamese Government to its official development assistance (ODA) projects’ contractors, saying they were becoming ‘exacerbated’.

Mass water melon unsold at farms in central region

Farmers in the central provinces of Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi have been struggling to sell enough watermelons to turn a profit, as the price of the farm produce sharply dropped from VNĐ7,000 ($0.3) per kilo last month to VNĐ1,000 ($0.04) or VNĐ1,200 ($0.05) per kilo in recent days.

Women experience high risk of cardiac myxoma

The incident rate of cardiac myxoma is from 0.2 to 0.3 per 1000 people. Meanwhile, symptoms of the disease are commonly vague, even the first symptom can be a stroke which may lead to death.

Anti-State agitator sentenced to 4.5 years in prison

The People’s Court of HCM City yesterday sentenced Bùi Hiếu Võ from the central province of Hà Tĩnh to four and a half years in prison for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam”.

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