This is the time that needs active role of trade union and labour organisations in supervising overtime violations in order to protect employee’s rights. Hopefully the more independent organisations truly represent employee’s rights, the better supervising role of these associations will take effect.

Lê Minh Hiển, head of Community Service Office in HCM City’s Chợ Rẫy Hospital, wakes up early every weekend and goes to nearby provinces to give free screenings to poor and underprivileged children.

With the new school year approaching, 43 cities and provinces across the country are facing a shortage of teachers.

 Police in the northern province of Phú Thọ’s Việt Trì City issued a decision to prosecute the deputy chairman of city People’s Committee for wrongdoing related to land use management in the locality.

An investigation into baby product retailer Con Cưng has found that it had complied with all import and consumer protection regulations and possessed documents to prove origin, the Ministry of Industry and Trade has reported.

Deputy Prime Minister Vương Đình Huệ has instructed relevant agencies to stabilise the domestic pork market.

The National Wage Council yesterday finally reached a consensus to an option of raising the 2019 regional minimum wage for non-State employees at 5.3 per cent compared to the 2018’s wage.

Farmers in Cửu Long (Mekong) Delta provinces are struggling to fight floodwaters caused by heavy rains, rising tides and water released in the wake of a dam breach in Laos.

 Customs officials in HCM City discovered 40 shipments of various drugs in the first six months of 2018 and seized 54.5kg.

They call him the King of Avocado for his unrivalled knowledge of the tree, the exceptionally high quality avocado seeds he supplies and his passion for transferring his planting techniques to other farmers of the Central Highlands.