Việt Nam News

More than 600 CEOs and human resource managers at local and global companies discussed the latest trends in building an engaged, efficient and loyal workforce at a workshop yesterday in HCM City.

Phạm Sanh Châu, Vietnamese candidate for the director-general position of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), withdrew his name prior to the third round of voting on Wednesday.

Two gas stations in Diễn Châu and Quỳnh Lưu districts of the central province of Nghệ An have been found selling diluted, low quality A92 gasoline in large quantities.

The capital city has managed to build only 17 out of 80 schools that meet national standards as per this year’s plan.

Hundreds of thousands of households living along Lô River have been desperately seeking for help from authorised agencies as their cultivated land are at serious risks of being swept away due to rampant illegal sand mining.

Violations of construction regulations have been increasing in HCM City despite sanctions imposed by the city, according to the city’s Construction Department’s inspection division.

Starting in 2002 by breeding 2,000 hens, Nguyễn Thị Thêu, a woman from northern Vĩnh Phúc Province, now earns about VNĐ5 billion (US$224,000) a year and creates job for dozens of  workers.  

Thủ Đức Hospital’s time-saving and accuracy-improving electronic medical records system has been recognized by the ASEAN CIO/CSO Awards 2017, and has become a model for other hospitals around the country.

The Health Department of Cần Thơ City officially broke ground for construction of a 500-bed oncology hospital, which will be the biggest and most modern facility in the Mekong Delta when completed yesterday.

The HCM City People’s Committee has asked the city’s Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to publicise the names of 13 slaughterhouses located within the Xuyên Á slaughterhouse complex in the city’s Củ Chi District for illegally injecting pigs with sedatives.

The Bình Dương Province Trade Union opened its first cultural and sports centre for workers in Thuận An town’s An Phú Ward on Tuesday (October 10).

Heavy downpours and flooding caused by a tropical depression over the past few days have wreaked havoc in central and northern localities, claiming the lives of at least 20 people. Five were injured and at least 12 others are missing, according to the National Committee for Search and Rescue.

A Vietnam News Agency (VNA) reporter was swept away on Wednesday while reporting at the scene on serious floods that hit the northern mountain province of Yên Bái’s Nghĩa Lộ town.

The capital city’s transport authority has announced alterations to traffic movement in the central area of Hoàn Kiếm around Đông Kinh-Nghĩa Thục Square.

Delay in the construction of a tunnel at the Điện Biên Phủ-Nguyễn Tri Phương intersection in the central Đà Nẵng City has worsened the traffic situation in the area during rush hour.

The highest number of cyber-attacks on Vietnamese websites originated from the United States and China.

At least four people have been hospitalised and thousands evacuated after ammonia gas (NH3) was found to be leaking at the Vĩnh Lộc gas filling station in HCM City’s Bình Chánh District, HCM City.

The Hòa Bình Reservoir under the Hòa Bình Hydro-power Company opened seven floodgates, after heavy rains caused a rapid rise in the water level.