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On August 5 one of two assistant teachers in a class, identified only as Thu, manhandled and threatened students before pushing the boy into a wooden cabinet and shutting the door. Her acts were caught on the school’s CCTV. Another child in the class told her mother, Le Mai Linh, about this, and she informed the boy’s family and the school. The head teacher and her two assistants apologized to the family. But they were fired by the school. Linh's daughter had told her she was "constantly pushed, pulled, and punished [in class] perhaps [because] she cries a lot since she just got out of hospital." Do Minh Dan, the boy’s father, said he "was deeply shocked when he saw the video and furious with both the teacher and her employer." He blamed what happened on the kindergarten for hiring incompetent staff. The boy reportedly shows no ill-effects or trauma and soon returned to school. Thu was a contract teacher who had started working a month and a half earlier. On … [Read more...] about Hanoi int’l kindergarten teachers fired for locking child in closet

"The trade war is going beyond analysts’ ability to predict and forecast. It poses big challenges to countries which trade with the U.S. and China, including Vietnam," Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Tran Quoc Khanh said at a recent meeting:  Vietnam’s exports in the first six months rose 7.2 percent year-on-year, lower than the average growth of 11.6 percent in the last five years, according to customs data. RongViet Securities Corporation (VDSC) said in a newly-released note that export growth for the year could be 8 percent. It was 13.2 percent last year. The risk is even higher as China depreciates its currency to respond to the U.S.’s recent announcement of a tariff hike on $300 billion of its goods. The yuan slid to 7.0039 per dollar on Thursday as a result, the lowest level since April 2008. Economist Nguyen Tri Hieu said a depreciating yuan would pose a challenge to Vietnamese goods trying to enter China as cheaper Chinese goods will pour into … [Read more...] about Escalating trade war to hit Vietnam’s exports

Demand for investment capital at the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PVN) and its member units for 2018-20 was estimated to reach VND620 trillion (US$26.7 billion), PetroVietnam Securities Inc (PSI) recently announced. Workers at PetroVietnam carry out technical checks. Fitch Ratings last month assigned PVN first-time long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) at 'BB' with a positive outlook. According to Bui Huy Long, deputy general director of PetroVietnam Securities Inc, of the VND620 trillion, loans accounted for more than 30 per cent through traditional credit and bond issuances. Urgent projects such as Thai Binh 2 Thermal Power Plant, Long Phu 1 Thermal Power Plant, Block B-O Mon Gas Project, Blue Whale Gas Project and Sao Vang – Dai Nguyet Gas Project, would require $4 billion, Long said. Fitch Ratings last month assigned PVN first-time long-term foreign-currency issuer default rating (IDR) at 'BB' with a positive outlook. This was a positive credit rating … [Read more...] about PetroVietnam in need of investment capital

The number of foreigners visiting Vietnam in the first 11 months of this year is estimated at 16.3 million, a record high, up 15.3 percent from a year ago, according to the General Statistics Office. Most visitors arrived by air, accounting for over 80 percent of the total, up 14 percent year-on-year. The tourism growth is mainly driven by Asian tourists who account for nearly 80 percent of total foreign arrivals. About 13 million Asians visited Vietnam in the January-November period, up 18 percent from a year ago. China remained the biggest source of visitors with more than five million traveling to Vietnam so far this year, up 15 percent year-on-year, accounting for more than 30 percent of all foreign arrivals. South Koreans came in second with nearly four million arrivals, surging 22.3 percent and accounting for nearly one fourth of the total. China and South Korea were Vietnam's top feeder markets last year with 4.9 million and 3.4 million visitors respectively. In terms of … [Read more...] about Vietnam set to welcome 18 million foreign visitors this year

In the 2016-2020 five-year period, Vietnam's largest city has been allowed to keep just 18 percent of its annual revenues and submit the rest to the national budget. "This is the lowest ratio in the world," municipal Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong told the media on the sidelines of a city legislative council meeting last week. With a 30 percent retention, Tokyo of Japan ranks just above HCMC, and the highest belongs to Oslo, the capital of Norway, at 60 percent, Phong said. As the nation's commercial hub and biggest moneymaker, the city is working on a detailed plan to ask for permission to raise the retention ratio to 24 percent in 2021-2025, and 33 percent in 2026-2030, the ratio the city was granted back in 2003. This is needed for the city to ensure its stable development and continue to play its role as the nation's economic locomotive, making the biggest contribution to the national budget, Phong said. Including migrants, the megacity is currently home to 13 million people and is … [Read more...] about HCMC should keep one-third of budget revenues for itself: chairman