Laying off older workers is still a rare phenomenon which occurs only in some enterprises. However, this may become more popular in the context of the 4.0 revolution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s Cộng Café franchise will franchise its first overseas outlet in the Yeonnam-dong neighbourhood in the South Korean capital Seoul with opening set for July 31.

 Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha has emphasised the acceleration of clarifying abnormal results of the national high school examination in the northern mountainous provinces Ha Giang, Son La and Lang Son.

Jardine Cycle & Carriage Limited Group is expecting to spend around $105.7 million to become the largest shareholder of Vinamilk, while F&N Dairy Investments continues to register an additional ten million shares of Vinamilk.

 The party chief of Ha Giang Province, Trieu Tai Vinh has claimed that he played no role in the adjusted marks for over 330 tests in the recent national high school exams conducted by local education officials.

 The Ba Vi District General Hospital in Hanoi has held a meeting on July 19 to return the two six-year-old boys to their biological parents after they were mistakenly given to wrong parents at birth.

 Doctor Le Viet Khanh from the Vietnam-Germany Hospital said on July 19 that an eight-month-old baby girl in Doi Can Street died after being attacked by a Tibetan Mastiff raised at home.

 Vietnam’s pork prices have been on the rise over the recent months due to the limited supply. The country’s current pork prices are among the highest in the world.

 Several provinces in Viet Nam have seen a spike in prices for durian seeds in the last few days, especially for certain kinds of seeds purchased by traders for domestic durian growers or for export to China.

 The Ministry of Industry and Trade has officially announced a list of 225 Vietnamese prestigious exporters for 2017, aimed at supporting local firms in promoting exports and expanding markets.

 Competent forces in Dak Mil district of the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, safely detonated a Mark 82 (MK82) bomb weighing 227kg on July 19. 

 With Vietnam set for rapid urbanisation, sustainable development is an urgent task for the property sector, a seminar heard in HCM City on July 19.

 GameChangers, a team of five young programmers, has won the first KMS Hackathon championship with its intelligent virtual chat and job consultancy solution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Greater Mekong region, once the world’s most densely forested area, has lost a third of its natural forest cover and will lose another third by 2030 unless action is taken immediately,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam plans to build five new airports in the next 12 years.Currently, the country has 23 airports, comprising 13 domestic and 10 international. It aims to have 15 domestic and 13 international by 2030.

Some weak points of the economy still have not been settled, while the prices of many kinds of goods are predicted to increase. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Viet Nam national women’s football team will play two friendly matches against Taiwan on Saturday and Sunday in order to prepare for the Asian Games 2018, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Sixty Vietnamese students attending the 10th Asian School Games 2018 held in Malaysia, met with the Ministry of Education and Training on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 800 artists from 17 professional art troupes nationwide will compete in the National Music and Dance Competition at the central city’s Trung Vuong Theatre on August 24-31.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lacquer is the link which unites one artist from Vietnam and two from France at the painting exhibition “The Soul of Vietnamese Lacquer” at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum.