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HCM CITY – As more start-ups have been established, HCM City’s labour demand has increased, with 25,000 permanent and 7,000 temporary jobs that need to be filled in June. The main fields looking for workers are: sales, textiles, footwear, mechanics, automation, IT, transport, import-export, travel services and real estate, according to the city’s Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information (Falmi). Workers with a college or university degree make up 30.7 per cent of recruitment needs and those with an intermediate degree 18.9 per cent. In May, Falmi conducted a survey of 4,277 companies with a total of 49,105 vacancies. The survey found that mechanical engineering/automation and IT sectors have an increased need for experienced workers. Forty-four per cent of the jobs in the mechanical engineering/automation field need experienced workers, with 33 per cent of the jobs requiring at least one year of experience. More than 9 per cent of workers in the … [Read more...] about City seeks 25,000 workers in June

UEH announces new rewards in an effort to encourage international publication of research. – Photo dantri.com.vn Viet Nam News HCM CITY – The University of Economics HCM City (UEH) has announced financial rewards to promote academic research and international publications. The new policy has been issued as only 15 per cent of the university’s lecturers take part in research and international publishing activities. The value of rewards range from VNĐ30 million (US$1,320) to VNĐ200 million ($8,800), with the highest level applied to Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) publications with an impact factor (IF) of more than two points. ISI is a prestige bibliographic database of thousands of academic journals. This database allows researchers to identify frequently cited articles and who has cited them. The IF of an academic journal is a measure indicating the average number of citations of articles published in the journal in a year. The higher the IF, the more … [Read more...] about HCM City university announces VNĐ200 million research award

Bình Dương New City hosts the second Bình Dương Smart City Summit from November 25-27. —VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu Viet Nam News BÌNH DƯƠNG — The southern province of Bình Dương plans to seek more partnerships with neighbouring cities and provinces, businesses and local and international experts to build a Bình Dương smart city, Mai Hùng Dũng, deputy chairman of the province’s People’s Committee, said at a press conference on November 23. Dũng said the first Bình Dương Smart City Summit held last year was a big success as “it improved Bình Dương’s brand at the international level, helping the province attract interest from foreign businesses.” But the biggest highlight of the previous summit was the launch of the Bình Dương Smart City Project in collaboration with the city of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. This year, the province is continuing its cooperation with the Netherlands Consulate General in HCM City to hold a second smart city summit from November 25-27 … [Read more...] about Bình Dương seeks partners to develop smart city

Members of computer emergency response teams practise preventing lack of authentication and other threats during an international program on cybersecurity in Hà Nội yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – National Assembly (NA) deputies have raised concerns that the draft law on internet security will prevent Vietnamese citizens and companies from accessing information on the web. The draft law insists that foreign service providers, including giant internet service companies like Google, Youtube and Facebook, must store Vietnamese customers’ information on local servers instead of on servers located overseas, as currently practised. On Tuesday morning, NA members gathered in the main hall for their second discussion on the draft law prepared by the Ministry of Public Security, which is meant to ensure national security in the age of the internet. Deputy Phạm Thị Thanh Thủy from Thanh Hóa Province opposed Article 26 of the law. It requires that … [Read more...] about National Assembly debates internet security law

A laboratory of HCM City’s Bio-technology Centre. — VNA/VNS Photo Mạnh Linh Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has over 15,000 scientific journals published internationally in the last five years, marking an average yearly increase of 17 per cent, according to Web of Science. Web of Science is a multidisciplinary research platform which enables simultaneous cross-search of a range of citation indexes and databases. It offers access to research tools such as citation reports and cited reference searching, and personalised features such as saved searches and alerts. In 2011, Vietnamese scientists and researchers had nearly 1,500 internationally-published journals and the number increased to over 3,800 in 2016. According to Ministry of Sciences and Technology, the increase is the result of the National Foundation for Science and Technology Development (Nafosted) -- a State fund that was established in 2008 and is annually given VNĐ300 billion (US$13 million). To … [Read more...] about Việt Nam’s 15,000 scientific journals published internationally since 2011

Ease up: Over-using smartphones can lead to finger pain. - VNA/VNS Photo Khoa Thư Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI – T rigger-finger and trigger-thumb, the painful condition common in middle-aged women and people with diabetes, may occur in young people who overuse smartphones. VMN, a university student in Giảng Võ Ward, Đống Đa District, who was diagnosed with trigger finger for making repeated finger and thumb movements, usually spent five hours a night using her smartphone for checking Facebook and chatting with her friends. “I did not expect the habit to cause so much pain,” she said. “It hurt when I tried to extend my fingers. I felt terrible as I could no longer control my hand,” she added. And N is not the only case. VTP, 28, a clothing store owner in District 1, HCM City, told Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper that her fingers suddenly went numb and felt painful when grasping an object. “ I use a smartphone every day with my fingers wiping its touchscreen for … [Read more...] about Be smart, watch out for trigbger fingers

Doctors at Chợ Rẫy Hospital’s emergency department treat a patient.—VNA/VNS Photo An Hiếu Viet Nam News HCM CITY — All 23 hospitals in HCM City’s districts this year will have enough doctors who can take turns providing technical assistance to medical staff at health stations in communes and wards, according to the city’s Department of Health . Speaking at a meeting yesterday to review health sector activities of the first six months of the year, Dr Nguyễn Tấn Bỉnh, the department’s director, said the aim was to raise trust among local residents in wards and communes. Doctors at local health stations would receive assistance from doctors at district-level hospitals, he said. This would improve the quality of primary health services at grassroots-level health facilities, which has been required by the Ministry of Health. Each year, Phạm Ngọc Thạch University of Medicine provides 600 doctors for the city’s health sector, which has helped to reduce the doctor … [Read more...] about Doctors at district hospitals provide assistance to ward, commune stations

Waste is burned outdoors in Văn Môn Commune, yên Phong District in the northern province of Bắc Ninh. Open waste burning not only causes temporary environmental pollution but also poses risks of POPs emission. — VNA/VNS Photo Diệp Trương Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Việt Nam has gradually improved its legal framework to control persistent organic pollutants but there remain challenges in tackling environmental problems, according to experts. They were speaking at a workshop on managing waste and minimising open burning, organised on Wednesday by Natural Resources and Environment Information Centre under the environment ministry. According to Việt Nam Environment Administration (VEA), on July 22, 2002, Việt Nam ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants — an international environmental treaty. The convention aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) which are “chemical substances that persist in the … [Read more...] about Open burning of waste comes into the spotlight

Police seized khat leaves at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport. Medical experts and police have warned that young people are being lured by new kinds of drugs. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hải Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — Medics and police are seeing an increase in illegal drug use countrywide – and are warning users of the potential dangers associated with narcotics. In some cases, drugs are mixed into food and drinks in an attempt to get more young people hooked. But doctors say the consequences can be deadly and many of the drugs are hallucinogenic. On top of the more common drugs found in Việt Nam, like marijuana and LSD ( lysergic acid diethylamide), there has been an increase in methamphetamine, also called crystal meth, and khat leaves. In the past, heroin was often to drug of choice among addicts but according to Doctor Nguyễn Trung Nguyên from Bạch Mai Hospital’s Poison Control Centre, they are seeing fewer cases in recent years. Often, he said, young people are … [Read more...] about New narcotic lure young people

More than 250 local and international leaders in the construction field attended the “Build for Life” conference held in HCM City on October 11. — VNS Photo Viet Nam News HCM CITY — Sixteen leaders in the construction industry discussed opportunities and challenges in building infrastructure at the "Build for Life" conference, which opened in HCM City on October 11. The conference is focusing on innovative and sustainable building solutions for urban areas, especially large infrastructure. Philippe Richart, general director of INSEE Vietnam (formerly Holcim Viet Nam), said: “We believe the world will be a better place if everything we build always makes life worth living,” he said. Việt Nam is one of the most rapidly urbanising countries in the world, which is leading to challenges for the infrastructure system and living spaces. The conference included discussions about smart cities and future building trends; the future of global engineering; and energy infrastructure … [Read more...] about Building firms talk sustainability