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Poor workers burdened with expensive power rates

Overwhelming heat since early May seemed to signal a harsh and long summer this year. While many seek to hide from the heat in comfortable rooms cooled with fans or air conditioners, many workers dare not use too much electricity

Workers’ rentals: unrealistic policies don’t help

When municipal authorities issued a Decision No.18 in 2011 on granting preferential loans to landlords for building and upgrading houses to rent to workers, it was widely welcomed.

HCM City to improve bus access for disabled

 VietNamNet Bridge – People with disabilities are thankful for the efforts HCM City has taken to increase their access to public buses, but say more can be done.

SOCIETY IN BRIEF 20/5

 Poor workers to get small loans; ‘Unreasonable' insurance plan ignored by farmers; Danang-Quang Ngai expressway construction gets underway