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A mobile store of Refill Đây project in Hà Long Bay. — VNA/VNS Photo Phạm Mai HCM CITY — A Vietnamese university lecturer has won a prize in the UNDP’s Ending Plastic Pollution Innovation Challenge. Nguyễn Hữu Nhân, a lecturer of Việt Nam RMIT University, started a project named 'Refill Đây' (Refill Here) to work with manufacturing businesses to set up mobile refilling stores for retail products such as detergent, cosmetics, spices and dried foods in residential areas so people can bring use own containers to reduce plastic waste. Born and raised in the US, Nhân returned to Viet Nam in 2002. A year later, he joined the RMIT staff as an associate lecturer teaching marketing, management and entrepreneurship courses. He is also known as an environmental activist and has founded many projects and organisations working in environmental protection. He founded the non-profit organisation Việt Nam Clean and Green and is a core partner of the Vietnam Zero Waste Alliance. Changing consumer behaviour "Every minute, disposable plastic leaks into the environment, causing a series of problems such as river and sea clogging, killing terrestrial and aquatic animals, contaminating the food chain, thereby causing human health problems," Nhân said. “Meanwhile, the many plastic bottles, jars, and containers that consumers use can be reused many times,” he added. However, there are currently not many convenient alternatives for purchasing the products in plastic bottles or bags, leading to more plastic waste being discharged into the environment, he said. Refill Đây attempts to solve these problems before they become challenging by limiting the use of plastic. “We offered an alternative to single-use plastic by going to customer sites such as at homes, offices, restaurants or hotels to refill reusable containers with reliable products,” Nhân said. According to Nhân, there are already filling and waste-free stores that work very well in …

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A company in the southern province of Bình Dương advertises job openings. Photo laodong.vn HCM CITY — Demand for workers in HCM City and other manufacturing hubs in the south has been high and rising after the Tết (Lunar New Year) holidays driven by a business recovery as COVID-19 recedes. Companies in the city’s industrial parks and export processing zones need around 12,000 workers, including 2,540 with a university degree, according to the HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zones Authority (HEPZA). Another 4,700 jobs are available for applicants with college and vocational education, and the rest are for manual workers, Hưng Hứa Quốc Hưng, head of HEPZA, said. The textile and footwear sectors have the largest demand, he added. The HCM City Centre for Forecasting Manpower Needs and Labour Market Information said the city overall is expected to need 30,000 workers after the Tết holiday. Đỗ Thanh Vân, deputy director of the centre, said trade, services, textile and footwear, food processing, logistics, IT, plastics, and chemicals are among the industries with the highest recruitment demand. PouYuen Việt Nam Co. Ltd in Tân Bình District, one of the companies with the largest demand, needs more than 2,000 workers for various positions such as IT technicians, office and purchase staff, secretaries, quality management staff, and manual workers. Lê Minh Tấn, director of the city Department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs, said all businesses have resumed operations after Tết with around 96 per cent of workers returning to work. In Bình Dương Province, a manufacturing hub, more than 95 per cent of workers have returned, according to its Federation of Labour. The federation also said 916 enterprises require 95,983 workers after Tết . Đồng Nai Province, another manufacturing hub, too needs thousands of workers to meet the expected increase in production this year. Cao Duy Thái, head of the wage office at the …

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Vietnam has no COVID-19 case to report on February 28 morning Vietnam saw no new COVID-19 case over the past 12 hours to 6am February 28, making the national tally unchanged at 2,432, according to the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control. Among the total, 1,530 were locally infected, including 837 cases since January 27. A total 1,844 COVID-19 patients have recovered so far, and the death toll remains at 35. Among those still under treatment, 32 have tested negative for SARS-CoV-2 once, 50 twice and 100 thrice. By February 27 afternoon, 10 provinces and cities had gone through 14 consecutive days without new locally-infected cases of COVID-19. As many as 63,054 people who had close contact with confirmed patients or returned from pandemic-hit regions are being quarantine across the country./. First Vietnam medical achievement award calls 16 winners The Voice of Ho Chi Minh City (VOH), the local official radio broadcasting station, together with the municipal Health Department hosted the first Vietnam medical achievement award ceremony on February 26 to honour 16 contributions to the community’s wellbeing in 2020 from across the nation. The contributions were voted by the public from 22 nominations selected by the award’s council of professionals. Three months after its launch, the award received more than 60 nominations from medical facilities nationwide. Among the winners were the work of doctors at the Cu Chi COVID-19 treatment hospital – the first of its kind in Vietnam, and medical staff at the HCM City Centre for Diseases Control. Since the pandemic begin in the country, hundreds of medical workers in Ho Chi Minh City have taken turns to be at the hospital, while preventive medicine workers at the centre have worked day and night on contact-tracing and testing sample collection. Another was the operation that separated 16-month-old conjoined twins – Truc Nhi and Dieu Nhi, with the sisters now able …

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