• High - end lodging for workers

    05/04/2010 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – One might liken it to a resort, having seen magnificent buildings overlooking a central swimming pool lined with palm trees . . . A main building located in a spacious area decorated with lawns in the front and popular forest in the backdrop...

  • HCM City struggles as bus drivers quit in droves

    HCM City struggles as bus drivers quit in droves

    05/04/2010 05:00

    Bus operators in the city are facing an acute shortage of drivers which are straining their services to the point where passengers are turning back on public transport. A bus picks up passengers en route from Cho Lon to Thu Duc in HCM City. Drivers are...

  • SOCIAL IN BRIEF 5/4

    04/04/2010 05:00

    Deputy Defence Minister gets Russian academy membership; ILO assists labour relations law reform; Health violators found in 74 pharmacies; Five years in prison for former bridge supervisor A training workshop on preventing domestic violence opened in...

  • South hit by worker shortage

    04/04/2010 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Factories in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are still desperate to recruit workers more than a month after Tet (Lunar New Year) festival ended. Employees work in My Tho Garment Company in the Mekong Delta’s Tien Giang Province where employers are...

  • Workers get foreign jobs

    04/04/2010 05:00

    Viet Nam has sent abroad nearly 17,000 guest workers in the first quarter of the year, according to Dao Cong Hai, deputy head of the Department of Overseas Labour, said. Students practise electrics in HCM City Vocational College. To meet the demand for human...

  • City to clean up streets for celebration of anniversary

    03/04/2010 05:00

    The city government passed a VND50 billion (US$2.8 million) project to repaint offices and residential houses on 75 main streets in order to clean up the city before its 1,000th anniversary in October. A house on Hang Khay street of Ha Noi is being repainted as...

  • SOCIAL IN BRIEF 3/4

    02/04/2010 05:00

    Girl dies from electrocution at ATM in Vietnam; Draft on Vietnam’s 2010 Millennium Goals released; Customs equipped with container scanners; $3.4 mil project to aid victims of child labor Requiem for fallen soldiers held in Thanh Hoa The central...

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