Monday , December 23 2024

Recent Posts

Remittances help Covid-hit Vietnamese stay afloat

Remittances help Covid-hit Vietnamese stay afloat

Economic recovery and stimulus checks in many countries have allowed overseas Vietnamese to send remittances home and support their families amid the Covid-19 pandemic. In the first week of every month Nguyen Thanh Tuyen, who works at a nail salon in Orange County, California state, in the U.S. heads to …

Read More »

1,000 plus workers at South Korean firm protest wage cuts

Over 1,000 staff at a South Korean-run garment firm in Ho Chi Minh City have stopped working to protest the company’s new salary scheme that could affect their incomes. The strike began at a factory of Nobland Vietnam Company at Tan Thoi Hiep Industrial Park in District 12 on Friday …

Read More »

Thailand brings back mandatory quarantine for tourists on Omicron fears

Thailand brings back mandatory quarantine for tourists on Omicron fears

The Thai government has reimposed mandatory quarantine for all foreign tourists to prevent the spread of the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus. The ‘Test and Go’ scheme since early November, which allowed fully vaccinated travelers from more than 60 countries, including Vietnam, to enter without mandatory quarantine, was suspended …

Read More »