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  Passengers at Hà Nội's Nội Bài Airport. Airports often suffer overloading due to increasing travel demand during the Tết holiday. — Photo vietnamnet.vn HÀ NỘI — Prices of air tickets for the upcoming Tết (Lunar New year) will be tightly controlled by the Civil Aviation Administration of Việt Nam (CAAV). The CAAV has just set up a special committee to supervise the increase of air ticket prices, dealing with violations, and enhancing security at airports. The committee, headed by director Đinh Việt Thắng, will instruct airport authorities in northern, central and southern regions to enhance the supervision and monitoring of aviation safety and security, as well as services in airports.   The airport authorities should provide people with information about flights to reduce numbers of those visiting airports to welcome or see off relatives and friends, especially at … [Read more...] about Prices of air tickets for Tết to be strictly controlled: CAAV

  Kaxton Yu-Kwan Siu, of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Department of Applied Social Sciences, speaks at the “Migration and Labour in Việt Nam” international conference yesterday in HCM City. VNS Photo Bồ Xuân Hiệp HCM CITY — Improved international regulations and standards to protect the rights and welfare of migrants, including thousands of Vietnamese guest workers, are needed in today’s globalised world, speakers said at an international conference on migration and labour held yesterday in HCM City. Labour migration is a highly fluid phenomenon in the 21st century, capturing public attention and driving political controversy globally, Prof Kaxton Yu-Kwan Siu, of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University’s Department of Applied Social Sciences, said. “There are more and more labour migrants working in areas beyond their birth country or region than ever before,” he … [Read more...] about Việt Nam seeks to protect migrants’ rights

Josep Borrell* On Sunday 15 and Monday 16 December, I chair ASEM, the “Asia-Europe Meeting”. What might seem to be a rather bureaucratic acronym, actually is a politically highly relevant event for our continents. I had offered to host this meeting in Madrid when I was still Foreign Minister of Spain and now I will be chairing it as EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. It underlines my personal interest in the fast-moving continent that is Asia today.  ASEM brings together 53 partners made up of the 28 EU Member States, Norway, Switzerland and the EU, and on the Asia side, 21 countries and the ASEAN Secretariat. Together we represent: · 55 per cent of global trade · 60 per cent of global GDP · 60 per cent of the global population · 75 per cent of global tourism  Simply bringing countries together does not, of course, guarantee any results. But it creates … [Read more...] about It’s time to translate Europe’s and Asia’s power into a real partnership

The study, done by UNICEF, WHO and health organizations, said the rate in Vietnam fell to 8.2 percent in 2015 from 9.2 percent in 2000. The number of newborns of below average weight, described as less than 2.5 kilograms or 5.5 pounds, stayed almost constant at 130,000 per year during the period. Rana Flowers, UNICEF’s representative in Vietnam, said: "This figure is most encouraging. However as a national average, it does not give us the complete picture and is likely to hide important disparities." She said among poor people 28 percent of mothers do not have institutional deliveries, and their children’s weights are not usually recorded. After assessing birthweights in 148 countries and reviewing 281 million births, the study, the first of its kind, found more than 20 million newborns in 2015, or one in seven, had low birthweight. Around 80 percent of all newborns who die have low birthweights. Worldwide, the rate of low birthweight babies fell from 17.5 percent in 2000 … [Read more...] about Vietnam has lowest rate of low birthweight babies in Southeast Asia

When 14-year-old H.T.H brought home a cell phone from school, her family was puzzled. She said her IT teacher had given it to her so she could report class attendance to him. The family was unconvinced. They had been noticing some unusual behavior by H.T.H of late. They kept pushing the boarding school girl for the truth. Finally, the girl admitted that her teacher had been having sex with her. He gave her the phone so he could contact her and tell her where to meet privately at school. The girl was 12-weeks pregnant when the truth came out. The teacher, Nguyen Viet Anh was arrested in April after the family lodged a complaint. He has reportedly confessed to having sex with her on multiple occasions at their school since late 2017, when the girl was in 7th grade. Unfortunately, H.T.H is just one among hundreds, if not thousands of children suffering sexual abuse at the hands of teachers and other figures of authority. The country was shaken when at least 10 boys of a … [Read more...] about Sexual abuse of underage school kids a legal, cultural failure