Many teachers and students have been on tenterhooks as they lost contact with the director of a Ho Chi Minh City-based English training company that has shut down a series of its centers across Vietnam without settling wages and tuition. Around half a month ago, the city’s Department of Education and Training contacted Do Van Quan, director of Master English Education Company Limited, which owns the Saigon American English (SAS), asking him to explain tuition-related complaints from students of some SAS centers that had been suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a report sent later to the department, Quan said the COVID-19 epidemic had severely affected the company’s operations and solvency, making it fail to fully pay its staff and teachers, Nguyen Phuc Huy Tung, head of the department’s continuing education division, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper. In his report, Quan pledged to resolve SAS students’ complaints and said the online training model would be applied. He …
At least five missing as torrential rains trigger raging floods in central Vietnam
At least five people have gone missing after being swept away by raging floods that were triggered by continuous downpours in central Vietnam over the past few days. Among the victims, two were in Nghe An Province, two in Thua Thien-Hue, and one in Quang Tri, according to a brief report of the National Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control on Sunday. One person was injured after being hit by an uprooted tree along a street in Thua Thien-Hue Province. Twelve roads in multiple provinces were inundated or blocked by mudslides, while over 150 households in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak were evacuated due to serious inundation, the report added. A neighborhood is flooded in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam. Photo: Duc Tai / Tuoi Tre The combined effect of an enhanced cold front and a tropical convergence zone has resulted in torrential rains in the central and Central Highlands regions since Friday evening. The National …
Schools in northern Vietnam closed as COVID-19 cluster found among students
Leaders of Phu Tho Province in northern Vietnam shuttered several K-12 schools last weekend after 47 local students were found infected with COVID-19. The direction was confirmed by Nguyen Van Manh, director of the Phu Tho Department of Education and Training, during an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Sunday. The education authority plans to close in-person classes for one week so that officers can perform COVID-19 screening and outline high-risk areas related to infections. After this phase, the department will consider resuming school operations or switching to online classes based on the real situations. The education department allowed several schools in Viet Tri City and Lam Thao District to halt classes from Saturday to monitor and report individuals that had come into contact with confirmed COVID-19 patients, according to Manh. On the weekend, Phu Tho’s medical forces were put on full alert as they detected six new COVID-19 infections from the …
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Enhancing economic competitiveness to help Vietnamese businesses regain confidence: Experts
More cities/provinces are now focusing on the quality and effectiveness of policy implementation, instead of issuing new ones. At a time when the business community is facing severe hardship due to the Covid-19 impacts, experts suggested a strong push for reform and eventually greater economic competitiveness would help regain business confidence in the positive outlook. Production at Hanoi-based Garment 10 for exports. HNT Photo: Thanh Hai During the first nine months of 2021, the total number of newly-established enterprises declined by 13.6% year-on-year to 85,500, while around 90,300 temporarily suspended operation, or an increase of 15.3%. This averaged 10,000 enterprises exited the market every month. “More than ever, this is the right timing for the Government to push for greater administrative reform and create more favorable conditions for businesses and people to enhance their resilience against future shocks,” President of the Vietnam …
Health Ministry leaders asked to directly provide COVID-19 fight information on mass media
Illustrative image (Source: vietnamnet.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked leaders of the Ministry of Health to provide latest information to the media on daily and weekly basis on COVID-19 prevention and control situation. According to the Government Office’s Document No. 7540/VPCP-KGVX, the PM, who is also head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control, made the request with a view to ensuring localities, sectors, businesses and the community are kept updated on the pandemic situation, thus reaching social consensus in fighting the pandemic. In the document, the PM stressed the significance of the timely provision of full information on COVID-19 situation and control measures to sectors, localities, the public and business community in maintaining results of pandemic fight. The Government leader asked the Ministry of Health to regularly update, sum up and announce information of pandemic developments, …
Vietnamese company installs last wind turbine at $219mn project in Mekong Delta
Trung Nam Group, an energy company in Ho Chi Minh City, held a flag-raising ceremony on Sunday afternoon after the last wind turbine was installed at its VND5 trillion (US$219.4 million) Dong Hai 1 project in southern Tra Vinh Province. Dong Hai 1 is an offshore wind power project with a total capacity of up to 100 MW, funded by Trung Nam Tra Vinh 1 Wind Power JSC, a member of Trung Nam Group. About 1,100 engineers and workers finished erecting the last of 25 wind pillars at the project on Sunday afternoon, ten months after its construction started. They used a total of more than 18,000 metric tons of steel and buried 115,000 meters of steel piles into the seabed to build foundations for the wind pillars. A Vietnamese national flag is raised during a ceremony at the Dong Hai 1 wind power project in Tra Vinh Province, Vietnam, October 17, 2021. Photo: Ngoc Hien / Tuoi Tre Each wind pillar is capable of producing four megawatts, and the project will generate 330 …