High potential near miss report

Addressing the event, the Government leader said that Viet Nam has been effectively controlling the pandemic within the country as no new community infections have been reported in the past nine days, and the number of recoveries increase every day. The new normal has been established, he said, asking for continuous vigilance, especially among the health sector and hospitals. The health sector should always uphold a sense of responsibility in this process, while proposing timelier measures in the context of implementing the dual goal of fighting the disease and promoting economic recovery, the PM requested. Touching upon the re-opening of some commercial flights in September, he urged special attention to carefully implementing disease prevention and control measures, such as quarantine and testing, emphasizing the resolve to prevent the emergence of new COVID-19 outbreaks caused by foreigners entering Viet Nam. According to a report by the Ministry of Health (as of 5pm on … [Read more...] about Vietnam has conducted nearly 1.24 million COVID-19 tests, Gov’t says

It’s time, once again, to take a step back, rationally assess the state of English language instruction in Vietnam and reframe the debate. Aside from the limitations of an exam that only tests for grammatical and reading knowledge and neglects speaking, listening, and writing skills, there is the far more important question of whether it makes pedagogical and societal sense to require all students to study English or any other foreign language, for that matter. Another related issue is the steadily improving English proficiency of growing numbers of young Vietnamese. … [Read more...] about Missing the forest for the trees: National English exam results reconsidered

The duo and the director’s wife and child have been missing since Sunday after their house was hit by a landslide. The director was injured and is in hospital. … [Read more...] about Two Vietnamese missing as Typhoon Haishen hits Japan

Maysak "destroyed or inundated" more than 2,000 houses and tens of public buildings in the affected regions, the official KCNA news agency said, while 60 kilometres of roads and 59 bridges collapsed, with over 3,500 metres of railway roadbeds "swept away". Natural disasters tend to have a greater impact in the North due to its creaking infrastructure, and the country is vulnerable to flooding as many mountains and hills have long been deforested. The damage obliged the authorities to "change the direction of our struggle after comprehensively considering the year-end tasks that were underway", Kim told a top committee of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea, according to KCNA. It did not give specific details. - Pyongyang march - Kim has ordered some 12,000 Pyongyang-based party members to help with recovery efforts in affected rural regions, and they attended a rally on Tuesday before being dispatched. "We are afraid of nothing," said Kang Chol Jin, a party member at the event in … [Read more...] about Nearly 60 bridges, 2,000 houses wrecked by typhoon in North Korea

HDBank has reported breakthrough performance in the fourth quarter of 2019 The performance indicators in the fourth quarter of 2019 have shown a strong breakthrough by HDBank. In particular, net interest income reached VND2.888 trillion ($125.57 million), up 33.6 per cent on-year. Net income from the provision of services also increased strongly by 65.2 per cent which contributes to the total operating income (TOI) of VND3.344 trillion ($145.39 million), an increase of 25.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the total operating expenses and provision expenses for credit losses have been controlled steadily. As a result, the pre-tax profit of the fourth quarter of 2019 reached VND1.57 trillion ($68.26 million), an increase of 40.1 per cent compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. … [Read more...] about HDBank reports profit at $218.1 million