Troubled by low fertility rates in the southern provinces, the Ministry of Health has proposed relaxing the country’s two-child policy in order to allow Vietnamese parents to decide the number of children they want.
With labour migration on the rise across ASEAN, countries like Việt Nam, which sends a large number of workers abroad and relies on remittances for 7 per cent of its GDP, should strengthen protections for workers while lowering barriers to their mobility, argues a new World Bank report released yesterday in Singapore.
Cameras designed to tackle rampant traffic violations in Việt Nam are sowing confusion among drivers suddenly confronted with fines without being aware of any wrongdoing on their part.
Amid increasing demand for talent from existing and newly established businesses, employers are facing challenges in finding the right candidates, according to a recent snapshot report on Việt Nam’s labour market by Adecco Vietnam, a subsidiary of Switzerland-based workforce solutions provider.
The public assets procurement centre for the city’s healthcare sector was dissolved after three years of operation under a decision by HCM City’s People’s Committee.
The Ministry of Transport has agreed to reduce the toll for vehicles using the BOT (Build-Operation-Transfer) bypass in Biên Hòa City of the southern province of Đồng Nai.
Police and forest rangers of Huế City in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế are in co-operation to identify the persons who illegally cut down 3,000sq.m of special-use pine forest last month.
Rains up to 250mm are forecast along the coastal central provinces from Thanh Hóa to Quảng Ngãi on Monday (October 9) evening. This is attributed to the impact of a tropical low-pressure system, moving west-northwest at 25km per hour.
Associate Professor Văn Như Cương, 80, principal of Hà Nội-based Lương Thế Vinh High School, passed away early Monday in Hà Nội after fighting cancer for three years.
Đỗ Kim Phượng, former member of the Central Committee and Vietnam News Agency general director, the first editor-in-chief of Việt Nam News, has passed away at the age of 87 last Sunday (October 8).
Several scientists and epidemiologists participated in the “Information Exchange on the usage of chrysotile” conference, hosted by the Hà Nội Union of Science and Technology Associations (HUSTA) on Friday.
The central coastal city of Đà Nẵng has been selecting volunteers to serve the week-long APEC Economic Summit starting November 5, which is expected to bring together 21 heads of economies and some 4,000 officials and visitors.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam (CAAV) will co-operate with the police to conduct legal proceedings and impose heavy fines against those who sell, exchange and use personal information of flight passengers.
The first set of tracks and sleepers will be installed on HCM City’s 19.7km metro line No 1 from Bến Thành Market to Suối Tiên Tourist Park on October 23, the director of the project has said.
The HCM City’s People’s Committee has decided to invest in an electronic toll collection system (ETC) at three toll booths in HCM City.
Upgrading old buildings and relocating households living near canals are among the major projects that HCM City aims to carry out now and in the near future, according to city authorities.
Locals in central Quảng Bình Province are concerned that riverbank erosion along the local Son River will damage their houses and land.
Research Laboratories of Saigon High-Tech Park has begun installing a flood warning system at flooding hotspots in HCM City, aiming to alert city residents and suggest alternate traffic routes.
Five agricultural wholesale markets will be built in Hà Nội despite the unresolved food hygiene and operational problems dogging city markets.
While loading goods for delivery to customers’ homes, Trần Văn Khương, a delivery worker at Co.opmart Cà Mau, saw a woman’s handbag lying in a trolley. It had obviously been left behind by an absent-minded customer.
