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Ahead of the Tet holiday, Nhat Tan village in Hanoi is smothered in the pink color of peach blossoms. Besides peach flowers, villagers here also plan kumquat trees to serve the high demand for flowers and ornamental plants during this most important holiday.  As one of the oldest flower village in Hanoi, Tay Tuu is famous for its huge variety of beautiful flowers with thousands of fields of lilies, mixed with daisies, roses and gerbera. The village also has large fields of violet, gladiolus and dahlia flowers for Lunar New Year. Flower fields in Nghia Trai village (Van Lam district, Hung Yen province) these days are covered with yellow color of daisies “to kings”. This kind of flower is also used to make traditional medicine, and tea. Along with Thai Phien, Van Thanh flower village is the largest and the oldest flower village in Da Lat. Coming to the 100 ha-village, you will be lost in a land of various types of gorgeous flowers blooming all year long. … [Read more...] about Famous flower villages on Tet holiday

Young people prepare applications at Can Tho University to find jobs in big cities (Photo: tienphong.vn) Can Tho (VNA) — The Mekong Delta is one of the richest parts of Vietnam, leading the country in rice, shrimp and other agricultural products. But now the area is facing a labour shortage as young people leave to work in HCM City and southeastern provinces. Ly Sa Ruong from Tran De district in Soc Trang province told Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper that many young people had left their hometowns to find jobs in Binh Duong province. “Only old people and children are left behind. Young people have gone to Binh Duong province including my three children,” he said. “Farming does not provide a stable income.” Vice Chairman of the district’s Thanh Thoi An commune Nguyen Hai Quan said local people mostly worked in agriculture with two rice crops a year. Mechanisation had replaced manual work so people had more free time after the harvests. As … [Read more...] about Mekong Delta provinces voice concern over shortage of workers

At the workshop (Source: VNA) Seoul (VNA) – Gangwon province of the Republic of Korea discussed with Vietnamese partners problems in recruiting Vietnamese labourers for seasonal work in the (RoK) and solutions to the issues at a workshop in Gangwon on November 14. During the event, which was jointly organised by the Gangwon authorities, the Vietnamese Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) and the Vietnamese Embassy in the RoK, participants were updated on revised contents in a draft new policy on temporary labour of the Korean Ministry of Justice. Representatives from Gangwon said that the locality needs 5,000 foreign labourers, but only 3,310 were recruited, of which labourers from the Philippines account for the majority with 2,475 people, followed by Vietnam with 457 people. The RoK province took the occasion to ask Vietnam’s local authorities to pay attention to raising Vietnamese labourers’ awareness of work responsibility. They also hoped … [Read more...] about Gangwon province of RoK seeks to recruit seasonal Vietnamese labourers