The year 2021 ends with not very positive figures for the Vietnamese economy: GDP growth rate of 2.58% is the lowest in the past 30 years, the number of unemployed people increases, the average salary of workers decreases. For Vietnamese…
The regulation that “land belongs to the entire people, and the State is the representative owner” and the State’s unequal treatment of people and businesses are among the causes leading to conflicts related to land use rights in Vietnam for…
The Road Administration Department 3 under the Directorate for Roads of Vietnam is completing the procedures for the forced dismantling of five gate works in Kon Tum city worth VND8 billion ($348,000). The reason is said that these welcome gates…
Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 13 called on China to open a border gate to receive Vietnamese exports, which has been stuck here for weeks due to Beijing’s “no COVID” policy. Chinh made the offer during a…
Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly (NA) has just finished its extraordinary session on January 11. It is called “extraordinary” because the rubber-stamped parliament meets twice a year, spring and autumn, around May and October. The content of this meeting…
After four days of strikes to demand an increase in the Lunar New Year bonuses, thousands of workers at Pou Chen Vietnam Company returned to work on January 12. The above information was announced by the state-controlled media on the…
On December 29, the Vietnamese government announced that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2021 increase only by 2.58%, lower than the 2.91% rate of 2020 and also the lowest increase in the past decade. The General Statistics Office…
The State Bank of Vietnam has just announced that the number of remittances sent to Vietnam in 2021 hit about $12.5 billion, up 10% on the year. Previous statistics in November 2021 of the World Bank said that, although the…
In Vietnam, over the past two weeks, the number of Covid-19 virus infections has continuously exceeded the threshold of more than 10,000 people a day. On December 10, 2021, the Ministry of Health recorded more than 14,000 cases, and the…
On January 11, Vietnam’s highest legislative body National Assembly approved an economic support package worth nearly VND350 trillion ($15.4 billion) for the period 2022-2023, to support businesses and people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The information page of the National…
The state of workers’ strike continued into the third day on January 10 at a factory in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai owned by Pouchen Group, the world’s largest footwear manufacturer in Taiwan, because workers were not satisfied with…
One year ago, on January 1, 2021, the revised Labor Law, passed by Vietnam’s legislative body National Assembly in November 2019, took effect. But so far, the establishment of independent trade unions, as provided for in the new Labor Law,…
The leaders of VinFast automobile company belonging to Vingroup group of Vietnamese billionaire Pham Nhat Vuong recently announced that the company is about to stop producing gasoline-powered cars and focus on making electric cars. This move caused a stir in…
According to the latest statistics of Vietnam, the number of people of working age who lost their jobs in 2021 is more than 1.4 million people, while the income of workers in almost all occupations decreased significantly because of the…
Citing information from the Ministry of Public Security, Vietnam’s state-controlled media on January 7, 2022, reported that Viet A Company inflated the price of COVID-19 test kits by about 45% and gave bribes to “partners” VND800 billion ($34.7 million). The…
The recent case of an 8-year-old girl being abused to death by her father’s mistress in Vietnam is causing public outrage and voices have emerged that say this case shows the need to be more public about human rights in…
After being internationally praised for being the eighth in controlling the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2021, Vietnam finally faces a very strong outbreak due to the impact of the Delta variant, which is contagious and spreads very quickly. As of December…
Compared to the world, the cancer incidence in Vietnam is at an alarming rate (up 9 ranks) according to the data announced by the Vietnam Cancer Society at the annual Scientific Conference on Cancer Prevention and Control in Thua Thien-Hue.…
Nguyen Quang Dy The story of Viet A is a hot topic. If you go to google and type the word “Viet A,” you will find a lot of information that makes you eyestrain and headaches. Public opinion condemns Viet…
After Vietnamese authorities arrested the general director of Viet A company on charges of “inflating prices” and “making a profit” from the sale of COVID-19 test kits, there is more information about the involvement of the Ministry of Health and…
Vietnam is about to enter the new year, the National Assembly has been “optimistic” to determine the growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP), the most important target in the plan to ensure the legitimacy of the regime, is 6.0…
Vietnam is mainly applying two fairly rudimentary waste treatment technologies: burial and incineration to treat about 25 million tons of domestic solid waste annually, of which more than 50% is urban solid waste. However, no form has been recognized to…
Vingroup has officially started the construction of a battery cell factory for VinFast electric cars. It is reported that President Nguyen Xuan Phuc was present at the groundbreaking ceremony on the afternoon of December 12 of VinES Battery Factory in…
Affected by the Covid epidemic, in 2021, more than 100,000 enterprises withdrew from the market, most of them are small and medium-sized enterprises. Of course, that entails millions of workers and their families in difficulty. According to Vietnam’s Ministry of…
A piece of extremely unfavorable information happened to Vinfast cars when the company recently announced loudly in the media that it would export cars and the US market in 2022. According to the online newspaper Soha, a fire on a…
