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A shortage of safety inspectors has led to an increase in labour accidents in HCM City, the city’s Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (DoLISA) has said. The department will also open more professional training courses for inspectors as well as improve labour safety awareness among employees and employers through workshops. Tran Trung Dung, [...]
Vietnam has been found to be one of the five happiest countries in the world due to its long average lifespan, Vietnamese people’s satisfaction with their lives and low environmental impact level. A summer day of Vietnamese kids. The UK-based New Economics Foundation (NEF) announced the Happy Planet Index (HPI) on July 4 for 143 [...]
Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva plans to pay an official visit to Vietnam on July 10, according to his office. During his stay, Vejjajiva is expected to hold talks with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and pay courtesy visits to President Nguyen Minh Triet and Party General Secretary Nong Duc [...]
Mr. Jairo Acuna-Alfaro. Vietnam’s National Assembly ratified the UN Convention against Corruption on June 30. To learn what a country must do to meet its obligations under this convention, Tuoi Tre daily talked with Jairo Acuna-Alfaro, policy advisor on administrative reforms and combating corruption at the United Nations Development Programme’s Hanoi office. Acuna-Alfaro said: When [...]
Coroners and family members alike are still trying to sort out the major issues arising from the death of troubled pop star Michael Jackson exactly one week after he died, sources close to the investigation said on Thursday. Pop star Michael Jackson rehearses for his planned shows in London at the Staples Center in Los [...]
Employers cut a larger-than-expected 467,000 jobs in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent, suggesting that the economy’s road to recovery will be bumpy. U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the necessity of job creation in the Rose Garden of the White House, Washington D.C., capital of the [...]
Viet Nam had 101.7 million telephone subscribers by the first half of this year, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications. Viet Nam has six mobile phone service providers: Vinafone, Mobifone, Viettel, S-Fone, EVN Telecom and Vietnamobile. Next month, the domestic market will welcome Beeline. The total included 82 million mobile phones and 19.7 [...]
Afflicted by the charge-slashing campaigns of the three “giants”, MobiFone, Viettel and VinaPhone, small mobile networks are now being forced to look at their business modes and shortcomings. The charge-slashing campaigns in early June of Viettel, MobiFone and VinaPhone pushed smaller mobile networks against the wall. Vietnamobile had to “join” this trend after a short [...]
National university entrance exams are not the exams of examinees only, but of the whole country. A lot of parents have decided to stop vending for several days to bring their children to exams. Other parents have put aside busy works in rural areas and left for big cities together with their children, who will [...]
Five long stories by Nguyen Nhat Anh, a famous writer for teenagers, will be turned into graphic novels by Art Sign Corp. A page in “Before the Final Round” cartoon. The five stories are Truoc Vong Chung Ket (Before the Final Round), Bong Bong Len Troi (Bubbles Rise into the Sky), Bo Cau Khong Dua [...]