VietNamNet Bridge - The amount of foreign currency sent to Vietnam by overseas Vietnamese last year reached more than $10 billion, said Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on February 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Temperatures of around 10 degrees Celsius and continuous rain at nights has made Ha Noi a desolate and quiet place in recent weeks.

VietNamNet Bridge – In 2012, nearly 7,000 of labor accidents happened in Vietnam, killing 606 people, injuring more than 6,300 others, causing property damage of VND11 billion ($500,000).

VietNamNet Bridge – The New Year is coming but many workers are still not paid. Hiring gangsters to acquire wage debts, threatening to sue or even beating employers are tragicomedies about workers’ claim of wage these days.

A lot of businesses have decided that their staff would start the Lunar New Year holiday two weeks before Tet, because they don’t think that the operation on the last days of the Year of Dragon would help bring more revenue.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vocational training will be offered to 600,000 rural employees this year under a national project that ends in 2020, according to the General Department of Vocational Training.  

Marketing and sales officers would be most wanted in 2013, a report says, because businesses would have to focus on boosting sales and clear inventories.

VietNamNet Bridge – Rice fields are getting yellow and ragged in Duc Hoa district of Long An province, because they have been irrigated with the polluted waste water discharged from the industrial zones in the area.

Instead of seeking long term personnel, businesses nowadays tend to hire short term workers for seasonal production in an effort to cut down expenses.

Big bankers and businessmen have prepared their staff for a sad piece of news, saying that there would not be Tet bonuses this year, or the Tet bonuses would be modest.

VietNamNet Bridge - On the way to a construction site in Laos, a bus carrying 15 Vietnamese people crashed into a bridge under construction and fell into an abyss. Nine people died on the spot and four others were seriously injured.

Garment, footwear and electronics enterprises plan to give to their workers the Tet bonuses valued at one or two-month salaries. Meanwhile, commercial banks, which always offered sky high Tet bonuses, still ponder on the Tet bonuses.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many companies in HCM City plan as usual to help disadvantaged workers go home for Tet (the Lunar New Year) and organise celebrations here for those staying back.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Hanoi Labor Federation is calling for the combination of social forces to join its plan to assist poor workers to return home for the upcoming Lunar New Year, which will fall in early February 2013.

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