Opinion

Cutting intermediary costs to reduce drug prices for patients

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The Prime Minister requested to review regulations to cut intermediary costs so that drugs and medical equipment reach patients at the lowest cost.

More than 32,000 management officials return to the podium after arrangement, a valuable capital of the education sector

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Arranging more than 17,300 heads of educational institutions is a great opportunity for the education sector to solve the teacher shortage problem.

Paying less than 700,000 VND/year, buying a "shield" for students' health

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In the new school year, students are supported by the state budget with at least 50% of the health insurance (HI) contribution level.

Abandoning mindfulness

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When you reach middle age, looking at your gray hair, knee joints starting to ache every time the weather turns windy, or startled to realize that age spots have appeared on your hand, you realize that the hardest thing to let go is not the house, the car, or an unfinished love affair, but the thought that everything you have will last forever.

Keeping peace from the factory to the boarding house

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Salaries, jobs, housing, schools for workers' children or cultural institutions are an essential and important part of the care needs for workers working in industrial parks.

Proposal to pay traffic violation fines online is a step forward in modern management

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According to the proposal of functional agencies, for individuals and organizations violating traffic laws, the system will automatically send notifications within 2 hours via VNeID, VNeTraffic.

Trade unions create solid trust when negotiating more benefits for workers

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The proposal of the Trade Union of 19.5 One Member Limited Liability Company has helped more than 1,100 workers to increase their salary as a basis for paying social insurance by an additional 7% from June 1, 2026.

We cannot let UAVs become a threat in the sky

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Two times UAVs were detected near Tan Son Nhat airport on the evening of August 11, causing operational disruptions, directly affecting 73 flights.

Understanding

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He once took a ride on a technology car in the late afternoon. Throughout the journey, the phone attached to the driver's handlebars kept vibrating, it was his wife calling. Uncle just quickly glanced at me and texted a short line: "Running a ride, speaking at night". When he stopped in front of a long red light, Uncle turned back to look at me, forced a smile: "She is home alone and sad, calling is all talking nonsense". He doesn't know that nonsense with him might be important to his wife. And the excitement of wanting to talk now whether waiting until evening is still intact.

Workers are always at the center of Lao Dong Newspaper

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97 years is a journey long enough for many things to change. Now, not only has the life of workers changed, the operating methods of the Trade Union have changed, but the way readers receive information is also very different from the time the first issue of Lao Dong Newspaper was published.

Reducing working hours must go hand in hand with increasing productivity

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The proposal to build a roadmap to reduce normal working hours for private sector workers from 48 hours to 40-44 hours/week has received much agreement.

7 days of Tet holiday and the problem of people far from home

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The Vietnam General Confederation of Labor has just agreed to choose the option of Tet holiday 2027 for civil servants and public employees for 7 consecutive days, from February 4 to 10, 2027.

To make workplaces a place to settle for workers

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With millions of workers leaving their hometowns to urban areas and industrial parks to find jobs, what they need is not only a job with income, but also conditions to build a stable and long-term life.

Waiting for tomorrow

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Late in the afternoon, he stopped his car at a red-light intersection. An old lottery ticket seller stepped in, handing over a stack of tickets that were already damp from sweat. The strange thing is that on that face full of wrinkles, there was still a very bright smile. He bought one, the old woman smiled and thanked him and said: "Hope you win tomorrow". When the green light turned on, she leisurely stepped into another car, still with that smile, as if carrying a hope to share for tomorrow.

The crop button

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I have a friend who often tells world stories. He knows everything, as firmly as if he was himself at the scene. From the story of the newly opened coffee shop being profitable or losing money, the internal struggles of that company, to the marriage of an artist having problems. One day, while talking non-stop, someone at the table burst out laughing and pointed at his chest: "Hey, you buttoned your shirt wrongly!". Everyone looked down, indeed his shirt had been buttoned incorrectly from the first button. Everyone laughed loudly, making him blush. It's also strange, a person who can "see through" secrets kilometers away, doesn't recognize the wrong button right in front of his chest.

Don't mess with the patient's pain

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The fact that two students majoring in Odonto-Stomatology and Midwifery of Hanoi Medical University were disciplined and dismissed from the position of class vice-monitor of studies after inappropriate statements related to patients on social networks has left us with many thoughts.

Creating value from ticket fever

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1 minute 27 seconds may have become a record time for online ticket registration for an art program in Vietnam. That is the "National Concert: Fatherland in the Heart" in Ho Chi Minh City on August 23rd with 5,729,323 access requests.

More than 3.2 million m3 of mud in Tham Luong canal and the opportunity to save hundreds of billions of VND

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Tham Luong - Ben Cat canal (HCMC) nearly 32km long has many spacious embankments, but more than 3.2 million m3 of mud under the canal bed has not yet been dredged.

Underground space planning must go one step ahead

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Hanoi is planning to shape a "three-dimensional city" model, stratifying underground space for traffic, parking lots and technical infrastructure. Ho Chi Minh City is also considering large complexes under 23/9 Park, Ton Duc Thang street area, associated with metro, parking lots, commerce and services.

Know when to stop

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In the morning when I went to the park, I saw a bicycle-practicing child fall flat. The asphalt road surface was scorching hot. The boy sat down, about to cry. He didn't panic but rushed in and picked him up.