The Japanese Consulate in HCMC cooperated with the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanity to launch the 6th Vietnamese-Japanese haiku contest in August. Haiku is not usually popular in Viet Nam except with those Japanese Language students from the University of Social Sciences and Humanity. Reports at the event showed that several newspapers and newswires mostly published negative issues with one-sided information, sparking social concerns. VSS: Social insurance coverage on the riseAs many as 13.52 million people have joined compulsory social insurance by December 2017, up more than 1 million people over 2016, Vietnam Social Security (VSS) reported at a conference in Hanoi on December 26. Another critical task is to forecast international and regional developments to serve external information work, he added.

Source: VietNamNet News December 27, 2017 11:48 UTC