Despite his stable job, Hoai Phuong, a.k.a. Khoai Lang Thang (Wandering Potato), suddenly had a change of heart and started publishing videos on travel and foods. Currently the owner of the Facebook fan page entitled Khoai Lang Thang – Food and Travel, with more than 85,000 followers, and a YouTube channel with 126,000 subscribers, Dinh Vo Hoai Phuong might surprise his fans with his academic background. In fact, he graduated magna cum laude from Ton Duc Thang University, a growing public college in Ho Chi Minh City, where he majored in construction engineering. The journey to journeys “I got itchy feet just thinking about new journeys, new people, and new foods,” Phuong said. His first experience of travel came at the age of 15 when he got to Da Lat, a famed city in the Central Highlands of Vietnam, located around 300km to the northeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Then, the young man made it to Da Nang City in central Vietnam, Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta, and Con Dao Islands, a magnificent island chain off the southeast coast of the country, all before his graduation. Talking about his financial resources, he said he was burning the candle at both ends. “I took a part time job during college,” he recounted. “I would always set aside some of my monthly salary for my trips.” After graduation, he worked as a design consultant at a large company. When people questioned his motive for quitting such well-earned job, he… [Read full story]
Intel Corp. and Portland State University (PSU) will join forces to train Vietnamese engineering students for the US chip producer, reported the Portland Business Journal. Under a 2 million-USD programme sponsored by Intel, Vietnamese engineering students will be trained at PSU. These students could eventually hold high-level positions at Intel's largest global assembly and test site, which is being built in Vietnam 's Ho Chi Minh City . The money, which averages out to more than 80,000 USD per student, will cover the full cost of summer preparation coursework, two academic years of out-of-state tuition, room and board and a…... [read more]
Vietnam has reported 30 per cent of workers in footwear industry quitting jobs due to low salary over the past years, causing workforce shortage in the sector, the Investment newspaper reported. The Ministry of Industry and Trade said that average monthly income for a worker in the footwear sector is VND1 million to VND1.5 million (US$61-US$91.5) in northern Vietnam and VND1.35 million-VND2 million (US$82.3-US$122) in southern Vietnam. Possible difficulties and challenges of the sector has been also a reason for the situation, the ministry added. If the sector and local authorities do not find proper solutions, the footwear industry will face more…... [read more]
PANO - General Kvan Siem, Vice-Chief of the Joint Staff, Commander of the Engineering Corps, under the Cambodian National Defence Ministry, led a delegation of the Royal Cambodian Engineering Corps on a working visit to the Vietnamese Engineering Corps. The delegation visited Vietnamese units, factories and colleges to learn and exchange experiences. The guests wanted the hosts to provide supports and assistance for the Royal Cambodian Engineering Corps. Particularly, Cambodian high-ranking engineering officers asked their Vietnamese counterparts to share experiences in training engineering officers and specialists, the clearing and defusing of explosives (so-called “UXO”) left by wars and natural disasters,…... [read more]
(VOV) - Son La Hydropower Plant welcomed its first Tet after being connected to the National Power Grid last December. The plant's operation is an important milestone in the development of the Vietnamese power sector as it's the largest plant of its kind in Southeast Asia and a testament to the Vietnamese people's competence in executing such a large project. VOV reports: Located in It Ong commune, Muong La district, Son La province, Son La Hydropower Plant has six turbines with a total capacity of 2,400 MW. After 7 years under construction, the 138-meter dam will provide the national grid…... [read more]
Swiss experts arrived in Vietnam from January 13-18 to assess Vietnamese enterprises’ capability to supply engineering products to Swiss companies in particular and European businesses in general. The Swiss Import Promotion Program (SIPPO) will coordinate with the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Promotion Department (Vietrade) in mid-October this year to organize a mission of some 10 Swiss mechanical businesses to Vietnam to work with local companies in the field. This will be a good chance for Vietnamese engineering enterprises to boost production and exports to the Swiss market in particular and to the European market in general in…... [read more]
