Opinion

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.

30 minutes to Long Thanh airport, metro is the optimal option

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Ho Chi Minh City is accelerating a series of ring road, expressway and metro system projects to shorten travel time to Long Thanh airport.

Hanoi invests heavily, responsibility must be great

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Hanoi is expected to mobilize about 2,682.997 billion VND in the 2026-2035 period to implement 14 key transport infrastructure projects. Further, the vision to 2045 is to restructure the urban space, disperse traffic from the inner city, and connect inter-regions by road and rail.

Snow sports

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Speaking of snow, Vietnamese sports fans will surely remember the beautiful and proud image of the red color of U23 Vietnam in the final match of the 2018 AFC U23 Championship in Changzhou...

Opposite mark

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People often say "uniformity corresponds", but he believes that in friendship and love, it is the contradiction that creates memorable collisions. Like him and his close friend, one person considers the color palette as breath, one person believes that numbers are truth. Sitting in the same cafe, you can immediately see the mismatch. He belongs to the art community, engrossed in admiring the sun shining through the glass door, reflecting on the yellow color of the famous painter Van Gogh. She belongs to the business system, typing on the computer rhythmically like typing on the rhythm of survival. She said in a cold voice: "This cafe is 40m2, the rent is probably 20 million VND, with so few customers, the revenue is not enough to cover electricity bills. The owner is about to explode!".

Caring for the sustainability of the labor market

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The joyful image of workers holding tickets "Trade Union Train - Spring 2026" at Saigon station not only evokes the joy of reunion.

Kinh Bac University revokes graduation diploma, students suffer consequences

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160 students of Kinh Bac University suddenly received a notice of revocation of their university diplomas issued by the school itself.

Fighting flooding in urban areas requires urgent measures

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On February 6, Politburo Member, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Duy Ngoc inspected the implementation of overcoming and resolving 5 major bottlenecks in some communes and wards in Hanoi City.

Or should we not get rich anymore!?

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Do you choose football that is "poor but emotional" or "rich but not attractive"?

Sleep less, do more

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In a world where deadlines are close, he considers sleeping enough 8 hours as an extremely frivolous concept. Especially during peak times, looking at the long plan like Tao Quan's petition, he understands that if he just sleeps according to the doctor's instructions, it will probably take 40 hours a day to survive. So he started learning how to re-control the body's biological clock to sleep less while still running sustainably.

Ensuring people's supervision, people's benefit

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Speaking to direct at the National Conference to study, study, thoroughly grasp and implement the Resolution of the 14th Party Congress, General Secretary To Lam emphasized the role of supervision and social criticism of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.

Green, transparent and sustainable growth

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Vietnam has issued many important guidelines and policies to promote green growth, circular economy and digital transformation. This shows that the green economy is placed at the center of all growth strategies.

Learn to understand the body

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There is a detail in midfielder Thai Son's sharing as a warning to everyone about health issues.

Integration

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He is the person whose youth was associated with notebooks of poetry written in purple ink and afternoons carrying his girlfriend on a bicycle, suddenly one day he felt outdated. Watching generation Z grandchildren talking to each other in a half-Western, half-Vietnamese language, accompanied by gestures and manners that he did not understand, he decided to integrate.

Living with reality

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At some point, dreaming will stop so that reality can clearly answer that dreaming also needs... reality.

The ticket of faith

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People working for Lao Dong Newspaper still remember vividly the touching story exactly 7 years ago, one day in early February, before the Ky Hoi Tet 2019, about a female worker from Thanh Hoa coming to Long An to work. For 16 long years, due to difficult circumstances, she has never returned to her hometown. Then, thanks to the support of the Trade Union organization with free bus tickets, she and her relatives were able to return to their hometown.