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The Labor Confederation and the Women's Union of District 5 sign an agreement on the coordination to support female workers in the 2022 – 2027 period. (Photo: SGGP) The Women's Union of District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, in collaboration with the District Confederation of Labor, held a signing ceremony on the coordination to support female workers in the 2022 – 2027 period on August 3. In the past five years, the Labor Confederation and the Women's Union of District 5 carried out many activities to improve legal knowledge for female workers. Through activities and movements, 89 members and 99 typical union members joined the Party. The two units also coordinated with the landlords to not raise the rent and apply electricity and water prices as prescribed. They also mobilized schools to exempt or reduce tuition fees for children of underprivileged workers and organized for children of district public servants and laborers with high academic achievements to attend Thanh Da Summer … [Read more...] about District 5 joins hands to support underprivileged female workers, single moms

Two people were sentenced to death earlier this week while many others received prison terms from two to 20 years for murder and storing and using military weapons in Vietnam. The People's Court in Long An Province ordered a death sentence for To Nhut Khanh, 29, and Tran Trung Thanh, 29, as well as a 20-year prison term for Le Thanh Phuc, 29, on Wednesday. Vo Tuan Vu, 23, will be jailed for two years and three months for storing military weapons and failing to report crimes. Pham Huynh Phuc Thien, 19, will also serve two years in prison, while To Phuoc Loc, 20, will spend a year and six months behind bars for failing to report crimes. Aside from Thanh, who resides in Ho Chi Minh City, all of the defendants live in Tien Giang Province in the Mekong Delta region of Vietnam. According to the verdict, due to a conflict between himself and Dao Quoc Lieu’s group and Dao Quoc Thinh, who is Lieu’s biological child, Khanh bought four homemade guns, two homemade revolvers, 33 bullets … [Read more...] about Capital punishment handed to group of young men involved in gun-related murder

Evidence over the past year confirmed that the pandemic had a regressive effect on gender equality. As many as 5,000 poor and vulnerable women in Vietnam would benefit from a one-year project against the Covid-19 impact launched on August 2 by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) and the Government of Japan. Representatives at the launch of the project supported by UN Women and the Government of Japan. Photo: UN Women The project “Gender-Responsive Covid-19 Prevention and Response” is aimed to reduce the risks and negative impacts of Covid-19 on women and girls with a priority given to migrant workers, ethnic minorities, people working in the informal sector, and those living in disaster-prone areas in 9 provinces and cities including Hanoi, Danang, Dien Bien, Ha Tinh, Ho Chi Minh City, Tien Giang, Nghe An, Thai Binh, and Lao Cai. Apart from receiving the Covid-19 prevention kits, which include test kits, … [Read more...] about UN Women, Japan join hands to mitigate Covid-19 impact on Vietnamese women

The charitable house handed over to Tran Thi My Van in Soc Trang province's Chau Thanh district. (Photo: VNA) Soc Trang (VNA) - The Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Soc Trang province coordinated with donors to hand over a charitable house to Tran Thi My Van whose daughter is a AO/dioxin victim, in the Mekong Delta province’s Chau Thanh district on August 6. The house was built with a total cost of 80 million VND (3,420 USD), of which 50 million VND was contributed by Soc Trang Lottery One Member Limited Company thanks to the mobilisation of the Vietnam News Agency's Bureau in the province. In addition, the Association of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin in Chau Thanh district also mobilised donors, departments, and branches to donate more necessary home appliances to Van's family; and give 10 gifts to 10 poor households, and 20 gifts to disadvantaged students in the locality. To care for dioxin victims, since the beginning of this year, the … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency joins hands to support AO victim in Soc Trang

Hanoi’s typical dishes with many variants always cause nostalgia for children who live far from their homeland. As famous as pho (rice noodles soup with beef), spring rolls are also a dish imbued with the “Vietnamese national spirit”: if you see spring rolls somewhere, people from the S-shaped country must be around the corner. A familiar food on a Bangui Street The typical Hanoi's dishes are prepared by Helen Green, a housewife who lives in Ho Chi Minh City The fateful meeting happened when the soldiers realized that a dish they ate on the street was so similar to the Vietnamese fried spring rolls. They weren’t wrong: it was real fried spring rolls, made by an old woman who  came from Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi.Many years back in time, Vietnamese soldiers in the United Nations’ Peacekeeping Mission in the Central African Republic happened to meet an old woman, she was the only one from Vietnam to live in the capital, Bangui. Seventy years before, she … [Read more...] about [Quintessence of Hanoi’s cuisine] Quintessence of Vietnamese cuisine: Hanoi spring rolls

The conference was co-chaired by Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong, and Deputy Minister of Public Security Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quoc To. Reportedly, in the first half of 2022, under the leadership of the Central Military Commission, the Central Public Security Party Committee, and the two minitries’ leaderships, the two forces collaborated well to implement the resolution, providing timely advice for the Party and State on ensuring national defense and security, protecting important places and events of the country, and defeating tricks and plots of hostile forces. The military and public security forces implemented mass mobilization and the “Whole-people joining hands to safeguard national security” movement while coordinating to fight against crimination. For the second half of the year, the two forces plan to continue to collaborate closely, grasp all situations, and provide timely and appropriate … [Read more...] about MND and MPS enhance collaboration

The land lot of Pham Thanh Huong is eroded, but is not allowed to reinforce due to complicated administrative procedure One day at the end of this June, inhabitants of Hamlet 3 in Binh My Commune of Cu Chi District suddenly heard a bang. Rushing out of their house, they frightenedly saw a 20-meter-long and 3-meter-wide section of the current embankment being eroded by the river. For fear of this incident could threaten their life, these people worked with the local authorities to temporarily reinforce this embankment with coconut piles and sand. The section next to it is also subsided by nearly 20cm compared to the road surface, almost separating itself from the whole embankment. Facing a similar downgraded state is the embankment section passing Nhi Binh Commune of Hoc Mon District, now having a lot of potholes. More troublesome is that the dike along Ba Hong Channel to prevent high tides at present is too low to perform its function. Nguyen Trong Hoang from Nhi Binh Commune … [Read more...] about Saigon riverbank erosion arousing deep anxiety in local residents

Dam stressed that university autonomy is a very long innovation journey with many hardships and difficulties still ahead. However, the reality has proven that higher education results have had more positive changes. The first principle is autonomy, not freedom. It is imperative to comply with the law associated with universities’ responsibilities. Autonomy and university responsibilities have to go hand in hand, according to the Deputy PM. The Deputy PM also emphasized that one of the missions of a university is not only to disseminate and teach knowledge, but also to create knowledge. Therefore, he asked educational institutions to fundamentally innovate in scientific research, and create breakthroughs to promote innovation. Speaking at the conference, leaders of universities all confirmed that university autonomy has brought encouraging results to the higher education system in general and public higher education institutions in particular. Highlighting the "key" to success … [Read more...] about Major universities should be role model in management: Deputy PM

The items, a vase and a set of tools comprising a stone ax and eight bronze pieces, was handed over to the embassy last Friday, according to an online announcement Sunday. According to the FBI, the items pertain to a 2013-2014 case. Ten antique items stolen by an American man was handed over to Vietnam by the FBI on August 5, 2022. Photo by Vietnamese Embassy in U.S. An FBI representative said at the handover the bureau's cultural and art crime investigation team had discovered and seized an extensive collection exceeding 7,000 cultural artifacts illegally held by an American citizen, the largest seizure related to cultural property in the history of the FBI. Before his recent death, the culprit had expressed his wish to return the artifacts to their communities and countries of origin. After classifying, storing, and coordinating with experts, the FBI confirmed the 10 items were from Vietnam though it could not estimate their ages. The items will be … [Read more...] about FBI returns stolen antiques to Vietnam