Workers to get better services: PM

The Government has created the best conditions to help labourers enjoy favourable housing, health care, insurance, legal assistance and living standards in industrial zones (IZs) and export processing zones (EPZs).

Traditional markets needs more funds

In an effort to overcome the current shortcomings and improve the efficiency of traditional markets in localities, Hà Nội will review and adjust the market network associating with city’s infrastructure planning.

School kids taught to say ’no’

A class called “I Can Say No” at the Nguyễn Văn Trỗi Primary School in HCM City’s District 4 is teaching first graders how to handle inappropriate touching by adults and other children.

Farmers told to go organic, shun chemicals

Farmers should increase the application of bio-organic-based integrated pest management to sustain the health of the soil, preserve bio-diversity and improve agricultural product quality and safeguard people’s health, a seminar heard in HCM City yesterday (Friday).

Truck collides with motorbike, killing 2

Two people were killed on Friday when a truck collided with a motorbike on a stretch of National Highway No. 1 running through Xuân Tâm Commune in Đồng Nai Province.

HCM City to widen two north-western streets

The HCM City People’s Committee has approved the widening of Trường Chinh and Tân Kỳ Tân Quý streets in Tân Phú and Tân Bình districts to ease traffic congestion.

 

 

Tightened ODA policy a lending challenge

Stringent regulations regarding foreign loans are influencing the disbursement of loans committed by lending organisations to carry out projects in Việt Nam, said Chief Representative of Japan International Co-operation Agency (JICA) Việt Nam Office Fujita Yasuo on Thursday.

Medical fees to rise for people without insurance

Starting from June, new price ceilings will be applied on 1,900 medical services, with many expected to be increased two- or three-fold, as per a new circular issued by the Ministry of Health recently, as an attempt to drive up the number of those enrolled into health insurance programme.

Human trafficking victims freed in Q1

 In 2016 and the first quarter of 2017, authorities uncovered 430 cases of human trafficking, involving 600 accused and 1,500 victims. Some 85 per cent of the victims were to be sold to other countries, mainly to China – in 195 cases – involving a total of 378 accused , while 490 victims were freed.

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