Vietnam loses $3 bln a year not recycling plastic: UNDP
Vietnam “wastes” around $3 billion each year by not recycling plastic waste, a senior United Nations Development Program official said Friday at a …
Category: Socienty
123456 most ‘leaked’ password in Vietnam: ministry
‘123456’ was among the most leaked passwords in Vietnam, with over 3.4 million uses last year, posing a cybersecurity risk that hackers can exploit, the …
Design changes caused Hanoi bus rapid transit failure: World Bank
Hanoi’s BRT line failed to attract as many passengers as it should have because its design was changed from the original plan, according to World Bank …
Private fund does not always equate to financial infidelity among couples
Hong Anh was angry when she discovered her husband had been giving his younger sister in university VND5 million ($214.18) a month. Minh Hung, an IT engineer, …
VN-Index gains as most blue chips increase
Vietnam’s benchmark VN-Index rose 1.69 percent to 1,174.82 points Tuesday with the majority of blue chips in the green. The index closed nearly 20 points …
Vietnamese leaders pay respect to late Shinzo Abe
President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Japanese Embassy in Hanoi Monday to pay tribute to late former Japanese Prime …
Staring at charts: people becoming addicted to crypto trading
Vu Nguyen has not been getting sufficient sleep for the past month: She wakes up at 3 a.m. and opens the trading app to check the prices of tokens. …
TikTok deletes over 2 million videos from Vietnam for violations
TikTok said it removed some 2.43 million videos uploaded by Vietnamese users in the first quarter of this year for violating its community guidelines. Of them …
Should corrupt people get lighter sentences for handing in ill-gotten assets? Lawmakers divided
National Assembly delegates differed over a proposal to hand lighter penalties to corrupt officials turning in their ill-gotten assets. Le Minh Tri, head of …
Rental assistance package for workers disbursed at snail’s pace
Fifteen localities have disbursed VND70 billion ($3 million) to support 13,500 workers renting apartments, a mere 1 percent of the target, a top labor official …