Solar panels are installed on the roof of a hotel in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho – PHOTO: TRUNG CHANH CAN THO – After several years of development, the total capacity of rooftop solar power in southern Vietnam has far surpassed the capacity of the Hoa Binh Hydropower Plant, which was once the largest of its kind in Southeast Asia, according to Doan Duc Hung, deputy general director of Vietnam Electricity's Southern Power Corporation. … [Read more...] about Solar power booms in the south
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HCM City to build new hospitals in next 5 years
At Bình Chánh District’s Tân Kiên – Bình Chánh Hi-Tech medical cluster, second branches will be built for Phạm Ngọc Thạch University of Medicine, the 115 emergency centre, and Bình Dân Hospital. A new blood bank will also be built. … [Read more...] about HCM City to build new hospitals in next 5 years
Employees Feel Companies Not Doing Enough to Upskill Them to Full Potential, More Can Be Done: NTUC LearningHub Survey
In addition, NTUC LHUB's Director Institute Of Business Excellence And Healthcare Academy, Jenaline Low adds, "For those who are looking to jumpstart the upskilling of their workforce, it is key to invest in learning and development capabilities to assess and align the workforce skills requirement to the organisation's strategic business goals. Using a Design Thinking approach to identify skills gaps will help decision-makers succinctly identify areas for skills upgrading and discover employees' strengths to optimise their full potential. To add, we urge companies to leverage training support and subsidies available to them such as the Enhanced Training Support Package and Enhanced Absentee Payroll, which are helpful to defray the training investment cost with course fee and absentee payroll subsidies." … [Read more...] about Employees Feel Companies Not Doing Enough to Upskill Them to Full Potential, More Can Be Done: NTUC LearningHub Survey
Military doctor aids impoverished people in Central Highlands
People still worshipped forest ghosts when they get sick. Linh, at that time, was a physician in Bi Village (Ia O Commune, Gia Lai Province) who could not persuade people to go to the health clinic. Once, he joined a traditional ceremony with local residents to pray for good health. At the end of the session, he secretly put medicine into a banana from the ceremony to convince a patient to "eat to take good luck from god". … [Read more...] about Military doctor aids impoverished people in Central Highlands
Exhibition on Communist Party of Việt Nam opens in Hà Nội
Addressing the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoàng Đạo Cương said the exhibition aims to highlight the CPV’s leadership during the country’s struggle for independence, the Đổi mới (renewal) process, and national construction, and the Vietnamese people’s achievements in constructing and safeguarding the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland. … [Read more...] about Exhibition on Communist Party of Việt Nam opens in Hà Nội