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Vietnam loses 3% of GDP for not using workers with disabilities
05/12/2012 03:18
The International Labor Organization (ILO) said that Vietnam loses 3% of the gross domestic product (GDP) each year because the labor market is not open for the disable.� This figure was released yesterday (3/12), on the occasion of the International Day of People with Disabilities. To...
Mai Giang wins Vietnam’s Next Top Model 2012
27/11/2012 02:43
The Haiphong University student weighs 48kg and measures 77-63-88, having won a two-year working contract with BeU Model Management Company (worth VND1 billion), a member card in Fitness & Yoga (VND300 million), a cash prize (worth VND200 million) from Cosmopolitan magazine, a short-term...
Vietnamese woman commits suicide with two children in South Korea
26/11/2012 07:00
The Korea Times quoted local police as saying that the woman had committed suicide by jumping off the 18th floor of an apartment building, with her 7-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son in her arms. The woman has been identified as Vo Thi Minh Phuong, 27, from the Mekong Delta city of...
Legal age in Vietnam should be 16: official
06/11/2012 07:15
The official made the statement in an interview with Tuoi Tre on the subject. “It is time to change the social viewpoint on the age so that people from the ages of 16-18 can decide on their own issues and can have social responsibility in the capacity of adults,” Ngu said....
Da Nang installs 170 free Wi-Fi
06/11/2012 07:00
The Department of Information and Telecommunication and the Management Board of Information and Telecommunication Technological Development Project on November 2 officially launched the project. In the short term, 170 Wi-Fi stations will be installed at public lights in the inner...
Finding strange substances in bras, mission impossible
05/11/2012 06:06
Unknown substances are toxic? To date, nine provinces and cities across the country have discovered Chinese bras containing unknown substances.� Local authorities have urgently checked and seized bras with unknown substances. However, relevant agencies have not known what kind of the...
Vietnam encounters gender imbalance issues
05/11/2012 02:30
This remark was made by the Head of the Department for Population and Family Planning, Duong Quoc Trong, at a national seminar in Hanoi on November 3. Trong said the gender imbalance at birth has arrived late in Vietnam � but is growing quickly and becoming quite complicated....