In the 39-degree Celsius heat of a summer day, carpenters in the craft village of Minh Duc in Phu Tho Province diligently chop up large wooden logs to make furniture in their home-based wood workshops.

 VietNamNet Bridge – After two years of working at a factory in Ha Noi, mechanic Huynh from the central region finds it hard to hear conversations unless his companions talk loudly.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Le Dinh Quang, deputy head of the Labour Relations Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), speaks to the Lao Dong (Labour) newspaper about longer working hours.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Anh Tho, deputy director of the Work Safety Bureau, tells Hai Quan (Customs) newspaper that better figures over the years do not lessen the torment of labour accidents, whenever they occur.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An average of more than 50 workers died a month in labour accidents across the country last year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – A court hearing in which apartment buyers were set to sue Keangnam Vina – the investor of the Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower was delayed last week.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has issued a decree detailing the implementation of a new regulation in the Labour Code that recognises the practice of labour dispatch.