The Ministry of Health announced on December 5 that it would test phase one of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Nanogen Pharmaceutical Biotechnology JSC on people from December 10 to 12.

Hundreds of workers at the Shop-Vac Vietnam Company in Hai Duong Province have stopped work over recent days to protest against delayed wages.

More than 1,000 workers from a foreign-invested Taiwanese company in the northern province of Ninh Binh have returned to work after three-day strike over low Tet bonuses.

 Most of the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) 17,000 employees went on strike on Thursday in what the central bank described as "mass casual leave".

 German airline Lufthansa said 113,000 passengers would be hit by flight cancellations on Monday when cabin crew staff will strike over cost cuts.

 Hundreds of flights have been cancelled ahead of a planned strike by French air traffic controllers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Happy Kids Kindergarten's 33 teachers resumed work today after going on strike yesterday, March 12.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Around 300 workers of two seafood processing companies in the Tra Noc Industrial Zone in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho refused to work, asking for Tet bonuses and seniority allowances.

VietNamNet Bridge – The New Year is coming but many workers are still not paid. Hiring gangsters to acquire wage debts, threatening to sue or even beating employers are tragicomedies about workers’ claim of wage these days.

VietNamNet Bridge - The economic situation in 2013 is anticipated to be difficult. Nearly 200,000 people in Ho Chi Minh City will be very difficult to find a job.