Check out the news you should not miss today in Vietnam:
Society
-- Authorities are working on a case in which a locomotive heading to Saigon Railway Station had to make an emergency stop while crossing Pham Van Dong Boulevard in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday afternoon because the guardrail was not closed.
-- Only 56 percent of college graduates in Vietnam found a job of their major, 25 percent had a job relevant to their major, and 19 percent worked in a field which had nothing to do with their major, Bui Van Linh, director of the Training Support and Human Resource Development Center, cited 2021 statistics at a seminar on job orientation and the local labor market in Hanoi on Saturday.
– Since 2012, more than 2,000 Vietnamese candidates have been selected and trained in the Japanese language before coming to work in Japan, with a majority working at the country’s hospitals and aged care facilities, according to Pham Viet Huong, deputy general director of the Department of Overseas Labor.
Business
-- Farmers in Vietnam’s largest tra fish (pangasius) farming areas, An Giang and Dong Thap Provinces in the Mekong Delta, have raised concerns over the lack of quality fingerlings.
-- France’s five-star cruise ship Le Lapérouse, with 106 tourists of different nationalities, arrived in Quy Nhon Port in the south-central province of Binh Dinh on Saturday, making it the first cruise ship to be anchored there this year, the Vietnam News Agency reported the same day.
Education
-- The 2022 'Bienvenue en France' expo is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City today at Rex Hotel in District 1, featuring representatives from 26 schools including universities, business schools, engineering schools, and other specialized institutions.
World news
-- Ten people, including two teenagers and a younger girl, were killed in an explosion at a petrol station in the Irish county of Donegal, police said on Saturday, adding that the incident appeared to be "a tragic accident,” Reuters reported.
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