VietNamNet Bridge – At night, hundreds of workers of a helmet factory in the southern province of Binh Duong were brought to hospitals for food poisoning.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – Business owners have expressed their worry that the long 9-day Tet holiday would upset their production plans.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In the current big economic difficulties, businesses would have to fasten their belt and reserve limited budgets for Tet bonus for workers, according to the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.

Despite the development of industrial zones, there is still a shortage of housing for workers in these areas, which is mostly due to limited local budgets and lack of preferential policies to attract private investment in such projects.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Wage Council has agreed to the plan on raising the regional minimum wage from 2014 by VND250,000-400,000, or 15-17 percent. This has caused a big headache to both businesses and workers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – At midnight, six workers in a garment company in Da Nang city was hospitalized for emergency. The authorities determined that they had to work 17 hours per day.

 Workers at South Korean-financed Wondo Vina Garment Factory in Tien Giang Province's Cho Gao District have denounced the firm’s human resources managers for beating some of their fellow workers.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The number of foreign-invested (FDI) companies which no longer work at their registered offices, their investors left Vietnam, or communication with the investors have been lost has increased.

This morning – July 31, three officials of the Dong Vong Coal Co., Ltd, a subsidiary of the Vietnam Coal and Minerals Group (Vinacomin), died of asphyxia in a coal mine in Uong Bi district of Quang Ninh province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thousands of vocational schools have been built just to be left… idle, because Vietnamese students don’t like going to vocational schools.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A male worker who was under unbearable hard work in a wood processing enterprise swam through a lake of hundreds of square meters to flee, but unfortunately he drowned.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The process involved in adjusting the minimum wage of workers has recently been under a lot of scrutiny from policy makers, public officials and labour experts.

Three mechanics were fixing a freight elevator on the 18th floor of an apartment building in Dai Thanh new residential area in Thanh Tri district, Hanoi. Suddenly the elevator dropped, killing all mechanics on the site.

Faced with poverty and hunger after liberation in 1975, a Gie Trieng man levelled hills and mountains with his own bare hands to create a wet rice field legacy for his family and fellow villagers.

Long Hau Commune in Lai Vung District, Dong Thap Province is famous for building boats in the south’s watery area. Every year when flood season comes, the villagers are busy with orders from customers of neighbouring areas.

Reports from cities and provinces revealed that during the first quarter of the year the number of applicants for unemployment insurance declined to over 91,300 people, a decrease of nearly 22 per cent year-on-year.

"If wages continue to rise, it is forecast that by 2023, with about 10 million pensioners, the social insurance fund will have only enough money to pay retirement pension, not enough for investment," warned a senior official.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Security instability, unstable job, the specter of diseases like malaria and dengue are the problems that Vietnamese workers have to face in Angola.

The Poster Da Nang Electronic Co. Ltd has nearly 1,000 bachelor degree holders who work as normal workers. This is just a single example demonstrating the shortcomings and imbalance of the current human resource training in Vietnam.