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Ho Chi Minh City businesses will need 19,000 new workers after Tet: report

Ho Chi Minh City will need 19,000 new employees for 1,371 businesses after the Tet Lunar New Year break, a labor center said. Keep reading ...

Thai BJC to seek $6.2 bln loan for Big C purchase; shares drop

Thailand’s Berli Jucker PCL (BJC) said it would seek a short term loan and may consider an equity issue to fund a planned $6.2 billion acquisition of hypermarket operator Big C Supercenter PCL , sending its shares down 5 percent.   Berli, controlled by Thai tycoon Charoen ...

Remaining Montagnards not refugees, ministry says

Less than a month after the government announced that more than 170 Montagnard asylum seek­ers would have their refugee applications processed, an Interior Min­istry spokesman said on 10 February that the group had not met the criteria for refugee status and would be returned to Vietnam. However, ...

Action programme on sustainable production and consumption approved

Seventy per cent of enterprises in Vietnam with high energy needs and emissions and 50 per cent of industrial production establishments will apply clean and energy-saving technologies by 2020. This is the agenda of a newly approved national action programme on sustainable production and consumption for ...

Hanoi targets reduction in power safety violations

Hanoi has targeted reduction in violations of safety regulations for the high-voltage grid by 30 per cent in this year, the municipal Department of Industry and Trade has said. Le Hong Thang, director of the department, who is also deputy head of the city’s steering committee ...

Lang Biang reserve a hot spot for biodiversity

The Lang Biang Biosphere Reserve is home to an array of species, making it ideal for research and eco-tourism. It has been seven years since Dr Brandon Buckley from Columbia University in New York cooperated with the Bidoup – Nui Ba National Park in Lam Dong ...

Domestic retailers urged for better links

Vietnamese domestic enterprises in the retail industry should strengthen their connections to take better advantages of resources and increase their competitiveness over foreign investors, Chairman of the Hanoi Supermarket Association Pham Vinh Phu said. According to Phu, Vietnamese retailers are vulnerable to integration because of their ...

Mid-term public investment need estimated at almost $495m

Vietnam’s Ministry of Construction has completed its mid-term public investment for 2016-2020 under the Law on Public Investment to submit to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. Under the plan, total public investment need for the period is estimated at nearly VND11 trillion (US$495 million), equal to ...

Cam Pha port handles over 33,000 tonnes of coal on first New Year day

Cam Pha port and logistics company, an affiliate of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin), in the northern province of Quang Ninh loaded 33,000 tonnes of coal for two ships on 8 February, the first day of the Year of the Monkey. Keep ...

More talks between employers and employees needed

Thirty per cent of Vietnamese companies hold discussion sessions each month to air employees’ grievances, a survey by the Labour and Salary Department has found. The remainder of the 120 companies surveyed held discussions once a quarter or annually. Keep reading ...

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