HCMC hospital aids foreigners in emergencies

 

Guzman Rober, a 40-year-old American tourist on a recent visit to HCM City, began having an unremitting epileptic seizure at a hotel on Đề Thám Street in HCM City’s District 1 when a housekeeper luckily found him in time and called the reception desk for help.

Việt Nam doesn’t have enough skilled labour

It took more than a year and US$10,000 per person for a foreign-invested electric engineering company in central Quảng Nam Province to send two workers abroad for training after they were hired.

Cold wave hits northern Việt Nam

A cold wave from the north is closing in on the country and is likely to affect the northern and central provinces from Friday, said the National Hydro-Meteorology Forecast Centre.

 

VN middle class booms

More than 70 per cent of the Vietnamese population has fully escaped poverty, with at least 14 million having joint the global middle class, a World Bank report found on Thursday.

National Blood Centre to be set up

A National Blood Centre will be formed under the National Institute of Haematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT), as decided by the Ministry of Health.

HCM City to raise bus fares

HCM City Public Transport Management Centre has proposed raising the bus fares by VNĐ1,000 (4 US cents) to recover the costs of purchasing new buses.

Fire in warehouse to be extinguished by Thursday

The fire in TexhongYinlong Technology Limited’s Factory No. 4 in the northen province of Quảng Ninh will be extinguished by the end of Thursday, according to local authorities, Vietnam News Agency reported.

 

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