Students study at the Sa Pa Town Primary School in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Enterprises must be fully aware of children's rights and work to ensure them, experts said at a conference held in Hanoi on December 11. The conference, organised by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) and UNICEF Vietnam, drew nearly 100 participants from concerned institutes, academies and ministries. During the conference, experts discussed children’s rights and getting enterprises aware of these rights and contributing to promoting them nationwide. Nguyen Quang Vinh, general secretary of the VCCI, said joining trading conventions brought new opportunities for Vietnam, but also challenges. Enterprises must strictly follow regulations about child labour and child’s rights, which was part of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) and the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement … [Read more...] about Enterprises have to ensure children’s right: experts
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Three South Koreans detained for running online gambling ring
Vietnam’s cyber crime police under the Ministry of Public Security, and police officers of HCMC and the neighboring province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau arrested three South Korean men organizing the online gambling ring Friday. Kim Joo Hyeon, 46, An Kwang Ho, 41, and 24-year-old Kim Hong Min entered Vietnam on tourist visas and organized online gambling for South Koreans living in the country, police said. During a raid on their rented house in Vung Tau Town, the capital of Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in southern Vietnam, police seized 20 mobile phones, nine bank cards, 37 desktop computers, two laptops and devices for online payment. The online gambling ring was hosted by a website with its server outside Vietnam, providing thousands of players, mainly South Koreans, with a variety of gambling games. Since November last year, the ring had organized transactions worth more than VND170 billion ($7.3 million), police said. The Vietnamese authorities have recently relaxed their stance on … [Read more...] about Three South Koreans detained for running online gambling ring
Vietnam to become super-aging country by 2050
Senior citizens in Vietnam (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam will become a “super-aging” country by 2050, however, the country is not prepared to adapt to the rapid pace of aging and provide good care for the growing elderly population, heard at a workshop in Hanoi on December 12. “The Workshop on Aging Population and Health: The Longitudinal Study and the Role of Population Collaborators in Community Based Care for Older People” was held by the General Department for Population and Family Planning (GOPFP) under the Ministry of Health in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) of Japan and the Institute of Population, Health and Development (PHAD). Population aging is one of the most significant social transformations globally with one in 11 people in the world over age 65 this year, said GOPFP Deputy General Director Nguyen Thi Ngoc Lan in her opening remarks. … [Read more...] about Vietnam to become super-aging country by 2050
