CLMTV countries discuss social insurance for migrant workers
Senior officials from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam (CLMTV) convened their fourth meeting on labour cooperation in Hanoi on August 20, discussing social insurance connection for migrant workers in countries involved.At the conference, participants were updated about the latest information on migrant workers’ affairs ...
Poverty and equity are now more than just reducing extreme poverty
The poverty and equity agenda is no longer only about raising minimum living standards and tackling chronic poverty – it is also about creating new, sustainable economic pathways for a more aspirational population. The statement was introduced by Judy Yang, World Bank senior economist and ...
16th United Nations Day of Vesak Celebration on way
Heads of State, Buddhist leaders and scholars, and Buddhists from some 100 countries and territories around the world will count among the 1,650 attendees at the 16th United Nations Day of Vesak Celebration, to take place from May 12 to 14 at Tam Chuc Pagoda ...
Jessica Nguyen
Vietnam's Vingroup targets global markets with smartphones in tech shift
Vingroup, Vietnam’s top listed firm by market value, underlined its technology ambitions on Friday with the launch of its first smartphones, which it plans to sell around the world. The Vietnamese firm wants to sell its smartphones and other smart products to all continents and has ...
Mai Nguyen
English as an official language in Vietnam: would it work?
Opinion is not divided on the desirability of learning English, but making it an official language is easier said than done.At the Youth Entrepreneurship Forum 2018 last month, Minister of Information and Communication Nguyen Manh Hung suggested that the Prime Minister should soon recognize English ...
Vietnam among top in salary growth
Vietnam is ranked second in the top 20 countries in terms of salary growth in a recent report from ECA International, a global provider of information, software, and expertise for the management and assignment of employees around the world.Vietnam leads the Southeast Asia region with ...
PPP investment model helps improve quality of healthcare service: experts
The public-private partnership (PPP) investment model is seen as an opportunity for hospitals to improve the quality of their service, thus attracting more patients, experts said on May 21. Speaking at a conference on PPP investment for the health sector held in Ho Chi Minh City ...
USAID launches environmental conservation projects in Việt Nam
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) is launching two new projects to facilitate Việt Nam to contribute climate-positive actions to helping address the global climate crisis, according to a recent announcement from the US Embassy in Việt Nam. These new projects will help conserve ...
New Strategy to Help Vietnam Scale Up and Better Utilize Solar Power
The report comes as Vietnam is considering moving from a feed-in-tariff (FIT) policy to a competitive bidding scheme for solar projects to reduce the cost of solar generation.The FIT has been successful in recent years, spurring the fast deployment of projects at a time when ...
The World Bank
Vietnam’s economy to slow as population ages: WB report
Population aging could slow down Vietnam’s long-term growth in the 2020–2050 period by 0.9 percentage points compared with the last 15 years, a new World Bank (WB) report finds.According to the report Vietnam: Adapting to an Aging Society, jointly produced by the WB and the ...
Cancer killed over 300 Vietnamese every day in 2018: study
Almost 115,000 Vietnamese died of cancer last year, or over 300 a day, and the number of new cases is on the rise. Tran Van Thuan, director of Hanoi’s K Hospital, one of the biggest in Vietnam and specializing in cancer treatment, announced the figures collected ...
Le Nga
Training costs are high, but students stay abroad to work: experts
A forum on the solutions to develop the contingent of intellectuals in 2021-2030 was organized by the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) on September 25.According to Nguyen Huy Hoang from the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Vietnam still doesn’t have sufficient policies to ...
Le Huyen
Workshop discusses water security
The “Towards a Safe, Clean and Resilient Water System” workshop was held in Hanoi on May 30, co-hosted by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE) and the World Bank (WB) in Vietnam.Stakeholders as well as international and domestic experts participated, discussing key points ...
Stimulus package efficacy depends on execution: analysts
The stimulus package of VND350 trillion ($15.4 billion) is timely and well planned but how it is executed will determine the pace of recovery, experts say. The stimulus package was approved earlier in January at an extraordinary session of the National Assembly held to discuss ...
Dat Nguyen, Ha Mai
Decisive reforms needed for Vietnam to get full EVFTA benefits: WB
Vietnam needs to fill major legal gaps and address key implementation issues to reap the full benefits of the European Union Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) to be ratified by Vietnam’s National Assembly in May, according to a new World Bank report.The report cites the ...
New Vietnam international airport welcomes first passenger flight
A Vietnam Airlines Airbus A321 carrying Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and government officials made the first touchdown at the Van Don International Airport near the world-famous Ha Long Bay on Sunday morning, marking the opening of the first private airport in Vietnam.The 325-hectare ...
Quy Nguyen
Made-in-Vietnam text-to-speech app reads to the blind
Text-to-speech technology has actually been researched and used around the world for many years, and is widely applied in services such as consulting, customer interaction, smart homes and smart traffic. The desire to have an artificial voice with the same emotion and tone of a Vietnamese ...
WWF launches Plastic Smart Cities initiative in Southeast Asia
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is calling on cities in Southeast Asia to join Patong (Thailand), Donsol (Philippines) and Phú Quốc Islands (Việt Nam) in making a commitment to eliminate plastic pollution, by developing an action plan and trial innovative solutions.Plastic Smart Cities is a ...
Vietnam’s exports more sophisticated: WB
Vietnam’s exports have become more sophisticated with an impressive diversification of exports and increases in higher-value manufacturing exports, according to a recent World Bank report.The report found that manufacturing exports now accounted for about 85 per cent of total exports, up from 65 per cent in ...
Mekong Delta should become role model in climate change adaptation: Minister
The Mekong Delta, the largest agricultural hub of Vietnam, should be confident to surmount difficulties and become a role model in climate change adaptation in the world, said Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan.Local agriculture officials pointed out certain problems such as ...