Better labour relations help reduce strikes

HCM City saw a decrease in the number of strikes last year compared to 2015 thanks to a project on labour relations that began in 2014, according to the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

Competency-based training at community colleges

Competency-based training will be applied this year at three community colleges to improve employment skills for students as part of a Việt Nam Skills for Employment Project (VSEP).


 

Transport firms gear up for holiday

Transport companies are adding more vehicles for the upcoming Liberation and May Day holidays, with coach fares for long trips from HCM City to other localities expected to increase by 30-40 per cent.

Việt Nam to deal with drug-resistant malaria

The malaria epidemic is facing a risk of a resurgence, with the drug's resistance to the world’s most effective antimalarial drug causing immense concern in Việt Nam’s health sector.

HN cracks down on illegal advertisement phone numbers

The Hà Nội Department of Information and Communications has asked local telecom providers to disconnect more than 600 illegal phone numbers of businesses that provide classified advertisements since the beginning of the year.

Đông Á Bank ex-deputy general prosecuted

The Investigation Police Bureau for Economic Management Order Offences under Public Security Minister has decided to prosecute and detain Nguyễn Thị Kim Xuyến, Đông Á Joint Stock Commercial Bank former deputy general director.

City tackles port traffic black spots

As many as 17 black spots where traffic accidents consistently occur have been reported in HCM City. Of that, many locate on the roads linking to sea ports and dry ports, causing serious traffic congestion and hindering the city’s economic development, the municipal Department of Transport has said.

Proposal to upgrade City airport mooted

The Civil Aviation Administration of Việt Nam (CAAV) has just submitted detailed master plan adjustment of the Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport from now to 2020 and vision to 2030 to the Ministry of Transport.

Key traffic routes for central VN

The central province of Quảng Nam will start construction this year of key traffic route projects to connect strategic economic zones, sea and air ports in the central provinces and Central Highlands.

Fire destroys 36ha of cajuput forest

More than 36 ha of cajuput forest in Tri Tôn District of An Giang Province was destroyed following a major fire, Lý Vĩnh Định, head of the district’s forest protection station said on Saturday.

Four burned at Hải Phòng kiln

Four workers were seriously burned at a steel billet firing kiln of the Việt Nam-Japan Company in Hải Phòng City yesterday afternoon.

Houses collapse after landslide in An Giang

Fourteen houses and two house floors in Mỹ Hội Đông Commune, Chợ Mới District of Mekong Delta Province of An Giang fell into the Hậu River on Saturday morning due to a landslide, panicking local residents.

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