Friday, February 19, 2021, 16:04 GMT+7
Nguyen Hoang Son (back row, first left) poses in a supplied photo taken with his companions along with bins on which they drew for the Green River project in Can Tho City, Vietnam.
Cai Rang Floating Market in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta is the cleanest it has ever been thanks to a group of devoted young people.
As a Mekong Delta native, Nguyen Hoang Son, 21, a student at the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, spent much of his childhood tagging along with his parents as they sold fruit from their boat at a local floating market.
Economists chant private sector mantra as Party Congress deliberates
By Staff reporters January 27, 2021 | 03:00 pm GMT+7
Shoppers wear face masks at a market in Hanoi, March 2020. Photo by AFP/Linh Pham.
Greater allocation of resources for the private sector, focus on technology and IT and institutional improvements are what Vietnam needs now, experts say.
The past five years had been a transitional period between two economic cycles, so the economy will most certainly see changes after this Party Congress, said Dr. Nguyen Khac Quoc Bao, Director of the Institute of Financial Technology under the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City.
Friday, December 18, 2020, 15:17 GMT+7
Students wears masks and maintain distance in a class at Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HUTECH). Photo: Duyen Phan / Tuoi Tre
School facilities implicated as ‘high risk’ during a brief re-emergence of COVID-19 in Ho Chi Minh City in early December are back in operation after two weeks of closures.
In late November and early this month, Ho Chi Minh City confirmed four new cases of COVID-19 community transmission, which broke Vietnam s streak of 88 days without a single infection in the community.
Contact tracing on the four cases, labelled Patient 1,342, 1,347, 1,348 and 1,349, found hundreds of people at risk after contacting the infected, which in turn led to the shutdown of several schools to negate further threats of transmission.
Vietnam It is a positive sign that housing loans have dominated real estate credit, but bad debt could rise, too, experts caution. - VnExpress International