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Vietnam’s supporting sectors continue pushing forward despite the difficulties and extreme competitive pressure caused by a global pandemic and a variety of other geopolitical issues. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, enterprises across Vietnam managed to trudge ahead, securing new orders for export and posting increases in purchase requests. Mold production for Tesla At the end of June, Nguyen Van Tri, general director of Lap Phuc Mechanical Company, took reporters to a tour of the company’s 10,000-square-meter factory in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City. According to Tri, Lap Phuc began investing heavily in machinery and production quality as part of a push to adapt to global supply chain shifts over the past two years. The company’s goal is to offer a cheaper alternative to Chinese enterprises. Lap Phuc is currently courting Tesla, General Motors, and GS Battery VietNam Co. Ltd as potential clients and is awaiting quality feedback on samples of manufacturing molds and … [Read more...] about Supporting sectors – a highlight of Vietnam’s quest toward self-reliant industry

A picutre of District 7 in HCM City where located many office buildings. The hybrid working in Viet Nam and the Asia Pacific region is accelerating. — Photo Courtesy Cushman & Wakefield Vietnam The popularity of hybrid working in Viet Nam and the Asia Pacific region is likely to accelerate as Generation Z – those born between 1997 and 2012 – accounts for a larger percentage of the working-age population, experts said. Gen Z, which will reach one billion by 2030, is the first generation of digital natives. They expect a seamless connection between the physical and the digital, which is also what allows hybrid working to flourish. A report by Cushman & Wakefield titled “Asia Pacific Office of the Future Revisited” revealed that the majority of office workers in Asia Pacific, including Viet Nam, want to be more flexible in the way they work. Hybrid working is not a new concept, but it was relatively foreign to the masses before the COVID-19 virus hit. A hybrid office is … [Read more...] about Hybrid working grows in popularity in Asia

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc inspects special amnesty work at Xuan Loc prison in Dong Nai province. (Photo: VNA) Dong Nai (VNA) – President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 3 inspected the implementation of the 2022 special amnesty work at Xuan Loc prison in the southern province of Dong Nai . The leader highlighted the political and social significance of the policy, saying that it manifests the humanitarian advocacy and special leniency of the Party and State towards prisoners who show good behaviour and high determination to rehabilitate themselves. He noted that since 2007, seven amnesty decisions were implemented, allowing more than 87,000 prisoners to go free before their prison terms. Over the past time, the amnesty work has been carried out cautiously, objectively and democratically in accordance with regulations and ensuring political and legal requirements, helping affirm the consistent guidelines and policies of the Party and State in promoting and protecting human … [Read more...] about President inspects special amnesty work in Dong Nai

NEW DELHI -- India's government on Wednesday withdrew a data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law. The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows and proposed giving the Indian government powers to seek user data from companies, seen as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's stricter regulation of tech giants. A government notice said the decision came as a parliamentary panel's review of the 2019 bill suggested many amendments, leading to the need for a new "comprehensive legal framework". The government will now "present a new bill", the notice added. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Reuters the government has started drafting the new bill, "which is in good advanced stages", with a public release "very close". The government aims to get the new bill approved and made into law by early 2023 in the … [Read more...] about India nixes privacy bill that alarmed big tech companies, works on new law

Large pumps sucked water from a flooded coal mine in Mexico on Saturday as authorities weighed whether to send divers to try to save 10 miners who have been trapped underground for more than three days. The miners became trapped at a mine in the northern border state of Coahuila on Wednesday afternoon when their excavation work caused a tunnel wall to collapse, triggering flooding in three wells. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Saturday would be "decisive" in determining whether divers could safely enter the mine. But by afternoon, Coahuila Governor Miguel Riquelme said water levels were still too high. "Time is against us," he told families at the site, Mexican media reported. Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador visits a coal mine that collapsed leaving miners trapped in Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico August 7, 2022. Photo: Mexico Presidency/Handout via Reuters Relatives keeping vigil outside said they were pinning their hopes on the … [Read more...] about ‘Time against us’ in bid to rescue 10 Mexican miners after 3 days underground

PM Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting of the National Committee on Digital Transformation in Hanoi on August 8. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 8 described digital transformation as an important tool for the building of an independent and self-reliant economy and the extensive and effective integration into the world. He made the remark while chairing the third meeting of the National Committee on Digital Transformation in Hanoi. The Ministry of Information and Communications reported that digital transformation was promoted strongly and reaped encouraging outcomes in the first half of 2022. So far, 100% of the enterprises have used e-invoices, e-commerce revenue reached 11.27% of total retail sales (compared to the target of 7%), 66% of the people aged 15 and above had payment accounts (1% higher than the target), 70.91% of the adults owned smartphones (compared to the target of 85%), and 71.75% of all the households used … [Read more...] about Digital transformation crucial to an independent, self-reliant economy: PM

In 2002 a patient was admitted to our hospital with a severe stomachache and died despite our best efforts. The patient's family burst in brandishing knives and threatened to slash anyone wearing a white coat. Doctors and nurses had to take off their coats and make a run for it. Many years ago one of my colleagues received threats and gangsters waited outside the emergency ward for days. The colleague was forced to go in and out of the hospital through a landfill and the backdoor. One of the latest incidents happened late last month at the Gia Dinh People's Hospital in HCMC. A child choked on a fish bone and was brought to the hospital. All of her vital signs were normal and there were no signs of distress. The child was told to sit and wait until a specialist from the otorhinolaryngology department came and removed the bone. But five minutes later a doctor in the emergency ward was checking the CT scan of another patient when the girl's father came in, pushed him against the … [Read more...] about Hospitals are not dojos for doctors to practice self-defense

Commanding General of Military Region 1 Lieutenant General Nguyen Hong Thai, Second-in-Command Officer of MR1 Major General Tran Van Kinh, and representatives of other functional agencies attended the event. At the working session, the mission was briefed on MR1’s task performance in technical work over the past time and proposals made by representatives of MR1’s affiliated units. Accordingly, the delegation mapped out concrete plans and established four teams to inspect the implementation of technical work from October 27 to 29 at MR1’s units and agencies, including the Staff Department, the Technical Department, the Military Commands of Lang Son and Thai Nguyen provinces, Divisions 3 and 346, Brigades 210, 409, 575, and 601, Workshop X79, Warehouse K21 (under the Technical Department), Battalions 23 and 97 (under the Staff Department). Besides, the teams focus on checking the quality of occupational safety and health, the implementation of regulations and policies and … [Read more...] about GDT inspects MR1’s technical work

The event was attended by Deputy Defense Minister Senior Lieutenant General Vu Hai San, Commander of the Vietnam Border Guard Command Lieutenant General Le Duc Thai, and representatives from functional agencies of the Ministry of National Defense. The key report delivered by the Vietnam Border Guard’s Deputy Commander Major General Nguyen Duc Manh revealed that over the past ten years, border guard agencies and units have completed targets set in the resolution. Notably, the border guard force has accelerated production to raise the quality of meals for troops. So far, all border guard units have been equipped with catering material. Especially, over the past two years, the Vietnam Border Guard Command has directed its units to take drastic measures to prevent COVID-19 pandemic and ensure logistic supplies to thousands of troops working at medical checkpoints in border areas and at sea. In addition, medical personnel of the Vietnam Border Guard Command have actively participated in … [Read more...] about Border guard force’s implementation of logistic work reviewed

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Tran Tuan Anh chaired the meeting and Senior Lieutenant General Pham Hoai Nam, Deputy Minister of National Defense, attended the event. Speaking at the meeting, Chairman cum General Director of the Viettel Group Senior Colonel Tao Duc Thang briefed the delegation on Viettel production and business situation, especially difficulties and shortcomings that the group is facing. Meanwhile, Gen. Thang proposed new mechanisms and policies on high-tech development, digital transformation, and foreign investment, and then the project’s steering committee would implement effective and appropriate policies on modernization and industrialization in the time to come. For his part, Mr. Tran Tuan Anh spoke highly of the remarkable achievements gained by Viettel over the past years. According to him, Viettel is the first enterprise to work with the Central Steering Committee for developing the project. It has shown the important role of … [Read more...] about Central Economic Commission works with Viettel