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Phu Quoc to raze 79 illegal villas

All 79 villas found to be built illegally on public lands in Phu Quoc Island off the southern Kien Giang Province are set to be demolished. Kien Giang vice chairman Le Quoc Anh said Monday procedures are being completed for the demolition. The villas, all of them in Duong To …

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Vietnam’s cheap labor advantage doesn’t come cheap

Cheap labor has been Vietnam’s competitive edge for years, but it has come at the expense of workers’ sustainable wellbeing. They neither have job stability nor an adequate safety net. Four years ago, 30-year-old Ly Mi Vang traveled 2,000 km from the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang to the …

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Former HCMC chairman dismissed from Party Central Committee

Former HCMC Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong and two other high-ranking officials have been dismissed from the Party Central Committee for various violations and shortcomings that had ‘serious consequences.’ The 13th Party Central Committee voted to dismiss the senior officials at its sixth plenum that opened Monday. Apart from Nguyen Thanh …

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Former HCMC chairman loses party central committee position

Former HCMC Chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong and two other high-ranking officials have been dismissed from the Party Central Committee. At the sixth plenum 13th Central Committee of Vietnam’s Communist Party morning, the committee voted and agreed that three members – Nguyen Thanh Phong, Bui Nhat Quang, President of the Vietnam …

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Vietnam’s first monkeypox case is woman returning from Dubai

A 35-year-old woman has become Vietnam’s patient zero of monkeypox after returning to HCMC from Dubai, the health ministry said Monday. The woman, unnamed, displayed symptoms like fatigue, chills, muscle aches, headaches and coughing, as well as rashes on several body parts. She is being treated at the Ho Chi …

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