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HCM City (VNA) - HCM City’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee has expressed its appreciation of the southern city’s Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s active engagement in local COVID-19 response over the last year, Standing Vice Chairman of the committee Nguyen Thanh Trung told a conference on January 26. The conference was held by the Executive Board of the VFF committee to review Buddhist affairs last year and map out orientations for 2021. Trung said the VBS proved itself an important VFF member and became a symbol of national unity. Recognising its achievements in Buddhist affairs in 2020, he also praised the VBS for proactively supporting the city in combating COVID-19 and joining humanitarian, charitable, and social welfare programmes. Such efforts have helped inspire and promote patriotism and consolidate the national great unity while contributing to developing HCM City as a civilised, modern city with a good quality of life, he said. The conference … [Read more...] about HCM City’s Buddhist unit hailed for active engagement in COVID-19 response

Hanoi (VNA) - In the fourth quarter of 2020, Navigos Search – a middle and senior recruitment service of Navigos Group - observed a quick recovery of recruitment in the information technology (IT) industry after the COVID-19 in Vietnam. Navigos Group is a leading recruitment group in Vietnam which is currently owning an online recruitment website, VietnamWorks, and the middle and senior recruitment service. The company has published a report on middle and senior recruitment demands in Vietnam market based on their clients’ recruitment demands in Quarter 4 in 2020 and outlook in 2021. Enterprises continue to recruit but focus on high-quality personnel with the most up-to-date technologies to increase their products and services' competitiveness. ‘New entrants’ are quickly building their recruitment brands and having good salary and bonus policies to attract qualified personnel, according to the report. Although the COVID-19 epidemic delayed the IT industry … [Read more...] about Navigos Group: Huge recruitment demand in IT in Vietnam

Ms. Nguyen Thuy Linh, Director of the Center for Community Empowerment (CECEM), said that when it comes to empowering women, many people are still unclear, there are many approaches and perspectives on gender inequality. and women's empowerment. However, gender inequalities in ethnic minority communities have not been effectively addressed as expected due to a lack of understanding of the role of women and gender relations in ethnic minority cultures. For example, with the Capacity Building Project in Dak Nong, in addition to livelihood development, there should be other activities that are most effective for ethnic minority groups such as: understanding the power of the community itself to create opportunity for them to take advantage; impact the beliefs of ethnic minority communities with the slogan "I believe I can"; community initiative ... … [Read more...] about Efforts to empower ethnic minority women

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam has recorded significant achievements in managing national foreign debts over the past three decades, said an official at a workshop held in Hanoi on January 26. Vo Huu Hien, Vice General Director of the Ministry of Finance’s Department of Debt Management and External Finance, made the statement, adding that the effective management has transformed Vietnam from a poor and heavily indebted country into a one receiving international organisations’ recognition as having a controlled external debt level and being excluded from the group of countries with a debt burden. According to data from the ministry, the public sector’s proportion in the structure of the national external debt decreased from 73.6 percent in 2010 to 63.4 percent in 2015 and 43.7 percent in 2020. The Government’s foreign loans are mainly official development assistance and concessional loans. To date, Vietnam has signed more than 85 billion USD worth of these loans. … [Read more...] about Progresses seen in Vietnam management of national foreign debts: workshop

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