VCCI wants no minimum wage increase this year

The Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) has proposed not increasing the minimum wage in 2021 as the COVID-19 pandemic is still heavily impacting Việt Nam’s socio-economic development as well as the world’s.

Unilever to fund sanitation upgrades at 1,100 schools

‘Green-Clean-Healthy School,’ an initiative by Unilever Vietnam and the Ministry of Education and Training, will support 1,100 primary schools around the country in improving their facilities and sanitation this year at a cost of VNĐ22 billion (US$954,800).

Large reservoir in Lâm Đồng dries up

Nguyễn Văn Tuấn has been farming around Dankia Lake in Lạc Dương District, Lâm Đồng Province for 10 years but he has never seen the lake as dry as now.

HCM City to have 80% of waste sorted at source

The HCM City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has taken steps to ensure that 100 per cent of its domestic solid waste is collected and treated and at least 80 per cent of solid household waste is classified at source by 2025. 

Farmers reap rewards thanks to bumper crops, high prices

Farmers in the south – central and Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) regions are getting high prices from a bumper harvest of the winter – spring rice crop, partly due to use of certified seeds and preventive measures against disease.

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