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$2.1 mil for medical waste treatment in Dong Thap
LookAtVietnam – The Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of Dong Thap has received US$2.1 million in aid for a local hospital waste treatment project. Illustrative image. The money will be used to improve the management of waste in four hospitals, namely Dong Thap General Hospital, Sa Dec General Hospital, Hong Ngu Regional General Hospital and [...]
Bus falls into river, 34 passengers die
LookAtVietnam – A bus carrying nearly 60 passengers broke the banisters of Serepok Bridge on National Highway 14, which connects Dak Lak and Dak Nong provinces in central Vietnam, to fall into the river at night of May 17. Thirty-four people died. According to initial report, the bus, owned by a transport cooperate in Da [...]
Police ambush nail spreaders on Can Tho Bridge
LookAtVietnam – Spreading nails has become a big trouble for travelers on Can Tho Bridge, the longer cable-stayed bridge in Southeast Asia. Can Tho City’s Chair Nguyen Thanh Son instructed police to deal with the matter. Accordingly, police of Can Tho City and Vinh Long province will join hands to put an end to this [...]
Aged woman gets younger thanks to her belly fat
LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Thi Ngoc Mai, 28, who used to have the face of a 70-year-old woman, appeared in HCM City on May 16, with a much younger face after one month of medical treatment in Taiwan. “I was completely surprised when I saw myself in a mirror after surgery. Though my face is still [...]
Building pig farm, hundreds of bombs unearthed
LookAtVietnam – While digging the foundation of a pig farm in the central province of Nghe An, a group of builders detected hundreds of bombs and mines. Some people collected them to sell to scrap traders. On May 10, while using a bulldozer to level the ground to build a big farm in Dien Yen [...]
Rising waters
LookAtVietnam – Developing nations in the Asia-Pacific region must build up climate resiliency and shift towards lower-carbon pathways if they want to sustain hard-won human development gains attained over the past decades in the changing climate context. The newly-released Asia-Pacific Human Development Report titled One Planet to Share highlights the urgent need to successfully deal [...]
Development program sets this way, training goes the other way
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam is seriously lacking manpower in some professions, while it has many redundant workers in other fields. Students prepare for the university entrance exam In 2007, the government set up a long term program on the human resource development by 2020, which says that Vietnam needs qualified workers in basic sciences and technologies. [...]
Vietnamese bankers earn millions of dollars a year
LookAtVietnam – While businesses moan about big losses and heaped debts, banks still make fat profit, thus allowing their bosses to pocket millions of dollars a year. At the shareholders’ meeting of Lien Viet Post Bank, shareholders heard that the total pay for the members of the board of directors and the supervision board in [...]
Gas cannister reuse called ‘time bomb”
LookAtVietnam – The widespread practice of illegally refilling and using mini gas cylinders puts users at the risk of suffering serious injuries or worse, according to a report carried by the Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper yesterday, May 15. Most of the users such cylinders are students, workers and other low-income residents who find it cheaper [...]
Online vendors that seek payment up front pose risks for consumers
LookAtVietnam – Online shopping businesses that require customers to pay before goods are delivered pose risks for the public, according to the HCM City-based Anti-Trade Fraud and Consumer Support Association (AFCA). Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:”Table Normal”; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:””; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; [...]
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