Vu Quang Tho, head of  the Institute for Workers and Trade Unions, tells Lao dong that both workers and trade unions are ill-equipped to cope with the free flow of labour mandated by the ASEAN Economic Community.

 The Vietnamese stock market has reached nine year peak with the strong purchase from foreign sector, who has posted the net purchase of VND3,478 billion (US$153 million) on two bourses in the first quarter.

A research team headed by Tran Thi Huong Giang, MA, from the Vietnam Education Science Institute has discovered problems related to gender equality in textbooks used to teach STEM subjects.

 Duong Van Kinh, 32, an employee of Hue City’s Culture Department, is a rare practitioner and proponent of glass paintings, an art form not in its heyday. 

The question is clear and succinct.“Looking for herbs?”The answer is simple: “Hit search.”The herbbank.org website, which provides information on all types of herbs from all over Viet Nam, is an unlikely brainchild of Pham Thi Nhan.

 Tertiary education in Vietnam is facing greater demand for improved soft skills training to meet the needs of the private sector and the fast-changing and more internationally integrated economy.

 Head Coach Claudio Ubeda of Argentina U20 has announced a series of upcoming friendly matches during a training camp in Vietnam.

 Family Life, an artwork by late Vietnamese painter Le Pho, fetched US$1.2m at a Modern and Contemporary Art auction at Hong Kong’s Sotheby’s home late last week.

 Ngo Van Quy, vice chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, urged the evaluation of trees at schools to avoid repeated tree collapse incidents, posing danger to students.

 Traffic police in central Thanh Hoa Province on Wednesday found a frozen tiger weighing 180kg in an ambulance travelling on HCM Trail in the province’s Thach Thanh District.

 Vietnam retained its place among Southeast Asia’s top three teams as the International Football Federation (FIFA) announced the latest men’s world rankings on April 6.

 More than 300 artisans representing famous craft villages nationwide will be participating in the 2017 Hue Traditional Craft Festival, to be held in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue from April 28 to May 2.

 The Ho Chi Minh City Music Street, all set to open across the Alexandre De Rhodes Street in district 1 at the end of April, is likely to to provide a new cultural space for local residents and visitors to the city.

 Hang Dau Water Tower, a French colonial structure in Hanoi’s Quan Thanh Street, is being illuminated in orange for the third consecutive year from April 6-27, to mark the festive days for both Vietnam and the Netherlands this month.

Taxi companies have expressed mixed views on draft regulations drawn up by the Ministry of Transport to amend Decree No 86/2014/ND-CP, which concerns automobile transportation businesses.

 As the National Museum of Vietnamese History in Hanoi is failing to attract visitors, it has increasingly become a venue for restaurants and wedding parties.

 Between 36,000 and 40,000 people in Vietnam commit suicide per year among the sharp rise in the number of local people living with depression.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has tasked the Ministry of Transport to mull over the expansion of the North-South Expressway scope to 6-10 lanes in accordance with Vietnam’s development situation.

 Of the 110 foreign direct investment (FDI) projects Vietnam has attracted in the field of electricity and gas production, 16 are in green energy, with total registered capital of $778 million.

The Ministry of Public Security has asked authorities in the northern province of Vinh Phuc to confiscate a luxury villa at Tam Dao Mountain which is suspected to be owned by former chairman of Vietnam Petroleum Construction Joint Stock Corporation.