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Double act
Vietnamese like to get together and whenever they do there is beer on the table. This may explain the interest in the equitizations of the country’s two biggest beer producers. The Saigon Beer Alcohol and Beverage Corp. (Sabeco) in the south and the Hanoi Beer Alcohol ...
Marine quality checked
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has asked four central provinces to provide regular reports on marine environment quality. The provinces of Hà Tĩnh, Quảng Bình, Quảng Trị and Thừa Thiên Huế have been told that they should seriously implement the instruction to monitor ...
New regulation on State medical workers
State healthcare workers are not allowed to register as heads of private hospitals or medical facilities established and operated following the enactment of the Enterprise Law and Co-operative Law, according to a newly-issued Government decree. The regulation excludes those who are sent by authorised State ...
Family planning takes root in remote areas
Hoàng Thị Mọn has been providing family planning advice for the residents of Bắc Lanh Chang Village for more than two decades. For 20 of the 22 years that Mọn has been on the job in the northern province of Bắc Kạn, none of the ...
Universities lag behind as schools expand training, lower standards
In order to increase revenue, universities are expanding their training scale, receiving as many students as possible and lowering requirements on students. Hoang Ngoc Vinh, in an article on Nguoi Lao Dong, commented that schools have lowered requirements on admission, are easier in student assessment and ...
Vietnamese women’s cosmetics market sees stable growth
The Vietnamese beauty market saw stable growth last year, with a year-on-year increase of 4 per cent, and is expected to thrive in the years to come. About 20 million women aged 15 to 39, or 40 per cent of the female population, are potential ...
VnSteel aims to increase revenue by VNĐ800 billion
Vietnam Steel Corporation (VnSteel) aims to earn a consolidated revenue of US$835.5 million in 2017, an increase of VNĐ800 billion from 2016. It will produce around 2.4 million tonnes of steel billets this year, up 17 per cent from 2016, VnSteel said. To accomplish these ...
An economic success story: How Vietnam became Southeast Asia’s top performer
Vietnam’s remarkable economic progress looks set to continue in the coming years, despite a regional slowdown which has affected other states in Southeast Asia. Its increasingly diversified and resilient economy has grown at a healthy rate – of above 6 percent – in each of the last ...
Coastal erosion threatens Bình Thuận Province
Extreme weather conditions resulting in a complex tide phenomenon, landslides and sea erosion are threatening coastal areas in central Bình Thuận Province, authority officials and local people have said. Mai Kiều, director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said this week that ...
Vietnamese student achievements rank in top 20: OECD survey
Vietnam ranks 19th among 20 countries which have students gaining the best achievements in the latest OECD rankings. The Independent, in its article titled ‘The best countries in the world to get an education’ published on December 8, 2016, named 20 of the best performing countries ...