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Vietnam PM orders accountability over textbook shortages
Vietnam's prime minister has ordered the education ministry to end a shortage of more than 776,000 textbooks by Sept. 25 and determine responsibility for supply failures affecting schools.
Vietnam education ministry explains 3.9 million textbook shortfall
Vietnam is scrambling to address a shortage of more than 3.9 million school textbooks, with the education ministry admitting its demand forecasts failed to keep pace with major changes this academic year.
Parents scramble for textbooks as supplies run short in HCMC
With the new school year already underway, parents in HCM City are taking time off work and enduring long lines in the heat to find missing textbooks for their children.
