Restaurant jobs now an option for workers with disabilities

At Noir, guests dine in the dark, while at Blanc, they use sing language printed on their menus to place their orders with servers.

Working against the odds

Handicapped people can often do a lot. They just need a decent chance, like the Noir Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City offers to people who battle to see, or cannot see at all.

How the sight-impaired cross the river of failure

  After it opened in 2014, there were many doubts about the future of  Noir, the HCM City restaurant restaurant operated by sight-impaired staff. However, after three years, the restaurant has continued to inspire.   

TV series offers fresh angle on Dien Bien Phu Audiences can expect to enjoy a new angle on the historical battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954 when a new TV series airs next month.

Nun dedicates life to saving children About 20 years ago, during a charity trip to Nam Dong District of the province, Soeur Vu Thi Tho witnessed a crowd of people surrounding a month-old infant tied with a dead mother.

Games offer free broadcast rights The Organising Board for the 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games has decided that television broadcasting rights for the Games will be free for participating nations.

Caregivers help disabled live fuller lives Senior business executives aren't the only ones who need a personal assistant; wheelchair- bound Vu Anh Tu also needs someone to help him do things.

VN agriculture needs skilled workers Out of 16.5 million job-seeking rural youths, only 12 per cent graduate from high school. Just 3 per cent attain a college degree.

Investment conference to begin in October The Viet Nam Investment Conference 2006, scheduled to take place in Ha Noi on October 10, is expected to attract about 200 foreign investors and overseas Vietnamese entrepreneurs from around the world.