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At an apartment block in Phuoc Long B Ward of Thu Duc City, a group of workers are tasked with cleaning the windows of more than 600 apartments. Standing on the roof of the 17-storey building, Cai Bao Thanh in a black T-shirt is about to tie the rope to some pillars to swing downstairs and start work. The ropes can bear a load of 2,000 kilograms. … [Read more...] about ‘Spidermen’ defy gravity, death to clean Saigon skyscraper windows

OCB said it plans to list over 1 billion shares on the HCM City Stock Exchange on the 28th of this month at a minimum price of VND22,900, taking its market capitalisation to nearly 26 trillion (US$1.1 billion) and ranking it in the top 30 on the exchange. … [Read more...] about OCB eyes spot among 5 best private bank in Viet Nam

South Korea recorded its worst growth in more than two decades in 2020, the central bank said Tuesday, but it is expected to be among the best-performing OECD economies in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The country's gross domestic product contracted 1.0 percent in 2020 from a year earlier, the Bank of Korea said, citing weak private spending and exports. It marks the worst annual growth since 1998, when the South Korean economy shrank 5.1 percent in the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis. Still, South Korea is expected to be among the countries in the OECD group of developed economies least affected by the pandemic in 2020. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the South's economy -- the world's 12th-largest -- grew 1.1 percent from the previous quarter, data showed, marking a second consecutive quarter of growth amid the pandemic. The central bank said exports expanded 5.2 percent in the fourth quarter from three months earlier, offsetting a slump in private consumption due … [Read more...] about South Korea posts worst growth in two decades

Back then, I had miles of empty space to safely practice. There have been hundreds of times I’ve cringed here in Vietnam watching parents helping their children, or worse, unattended kids, who were learning to ride horrifyingly close to the passing madhouse traffic. They’re wobbling, stumbling, jumping off, and trying again. It’s even worse sometimes when I see a six-year-old zapping around with a four-year-old giggling on the back on the tiny trainer bike with no apparent sense of danger. … [Read more...] about It’s all just a ride in Vietnam

Bach Mai Hospital Last Monday, a visitor was making his daily rush to the canteen of Bach Mai Hospital, where a relative is being treated, to queue up to get her dinner. Already having to deal with the stress of caring for a loved one in hospital, the murmurings over price hikes in medical devices – and therefore higher hospital fees – has only depressed the visitor further. … [Read more...] about Stringent measures to clean house at profiteering public-run hospitals