Wood processing firms should embrace technologies: experts
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:05:00
Vietnamese wood processing firms need to rethink their production models and embrace technologies to increase their competitiveness amid current and future challenges, delegates said at a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on September 10.
Vietnam named among world’s fastest growing travel destinations
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 22:01:00
Vietnam is the only Southeast Asian country among 10 world's fastest growing travel destinations, according to a United Nations report.
Fresh subsidies for guest workers coming from poor districts
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:58:00
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has signed Decision 27/2019/QD-TTg on credit subsidies for laborers from poor districts to work abroad under contracts by 2020.
Hanoi to add new bus routes to boost public transportation
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:56:00
To encourage more people to use public transportation, Hanoi will add 25-30 new routes to its bus map next year.
Door open wide for farm produce export to Europe
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:54:00
The recent signing of the EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which is expected to take effect from early 2020, has opened the door wider for Vietnamese farm produce to make inroads into the more than 500-million people strong market.
Three Vietnamese workers die of gas poisoning in Japan, S Korea
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:52:00
A Vietnamese died after inhaling toxic gas in a tank at a seafood plant in South Korea on Tuesday while two died of CO poisoning at a Japan's demolition site.
Another solar power plant inaugurated in Ninh Thuan
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:51:00
The first phase of Nhi Ha solar power plant was inaugurated on September 10 in Nhi Ha commune, Thuan Nam district, the south central coastal province of Ninh Thuan.
Vietnam healthcare way short of regional peers in global ranking
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:48:00
Vietnam is 66th out of 89 economies in a global healthcare ranking list, well behind most of its Southeast Asian peers.
VN catches up with world’s advances in cancer treatment
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:46:00
The Viet Nam National Center Hospital (K Hospital) has recently applied Gamma Knife Icon which is the most modern tool to efficiently and safely deliver stereotactic radio surgery for malignant and benign brain tumors.
Vietnam Airlines plane damaged in bird-hit
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 21:43:00
A bird-hit Sunday damaged the nose cone and weather radar of a Vietnam Airlines plane landing at Hanoi’s Noi Bai Airport.
Vietnam, Australia step up defence cooperation
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:13:00
Vietnam expects further support from Australia in the search for Vietnamese soldiers who died or went missing during the war, Deputy Minister of Defence, Senior Lieutenant General Le Chiem said on September 11.
Chinese men producing drugs in Central Highlands arrested
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:11:00
Authorities have arrested 7 Chinese men and seized hundreds of liters of drug precursors at a factory in Kon Tum Province.
Ninh Thuan undertakes drastic measures to combat ASF epidemic
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:09:00
Localities suffering from outbreaks of African swine fever in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan should take urgent measures to localise and stamp out the epidemic as a means of stopping it from spreading to other areas throughout the region, said Tran Quoc Nam, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan province People’s Committee at a meeting on September 12.
Army to decontaminate Hanoi warehouse blaze site
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:07:00
The Vietnamese army will decontaminate the Hanoi warehouse and surrounding areas, following a fire that released 15.2-27.2 kilograms of mercury into the environment.
Amendments suggested to revised Labour Code draft
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:05:00
A conference took place in Hanoi on September 11 to collect social opinions on the revised Labour Code draft from the angle of gender equality
Remove vessels from Vietnamese waters, China told again
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:03:00
Vietnam's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Thursday condemned the operations of a Chinese oil survey vessel and escorts in the East Sea as a violation of its sovereignty
Vietnam posts trade surplus with other CPTPP members
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 18:01:00
Vietnam recorded a trade surplus of over 1 billion USD with the 10 other members of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in the seven months since the deal took effect in the country in January, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.
Most Gen X employees looking for new jobs, finds survey
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:57:00
Eighty three percent of Generation X, or people born in 1965-80, are looking for new jobs, according to a survey by recruitment firm VietnamWorks.
