Dr. Đỗ Đức Định, from the Hà Nội Institute for Socio Economic Studies, speaks to the newspaper Khoa học & Đời sống (Science & Life) on the need to cut the current number of civil servants in half to free up funds to better pay for good quality employees.

Phan Thị Thu Hiền, deputy director of the Directorate of Roads of Việt Nam, speaks to the Kinh tế Việt Nam & Thế Giới (Việt Nam & World Economy) on the safety and transparency benefits of electric toll collections (ETCs) in Việt Nam.

Đỗ Thắng Hải, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, talks to the Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) on his ministry’s efforts to increase Vietnamese goods sold abroad

It was the stuff of action movies.

Five unarmed men stepped in to foil a group of armed thieves as they were trying to unlock and steal a motorbike.

A violent scuffle broke out, but, unlike in most movies, the heroes did not emerge winners, scathed or unscathed.

Nguyễn Văn Thể, Minister of Transport explains to www.chinhphu.vn that his ministry vows to be a pioneer in releasing ‘burden’ for enterprises.

May 12 is International Nurses Day. To mark the occasion, President of the Vietnamese Nurses Association Phạm Đức Mục talks to the Việt Nam News Agency about the indispensable role played by nurses in the country.

Prof. Trần Thanh Vân, founder of Recontres du Vietnam – a development initiative that has brought the world’s renowned scientists to Việt Nam for discussions since 1993 – talks with Việt Nam News reporter Hoàng Anh about this year’s event which marks 25 years since the first meeting. 

Nuno Cunha, ILO senior specialist on social security, talks to Việt Nam media about a recent proposal to increase the retirement age of Vietnamese labourers.

A professor at Hoa Sen University in HCM City who shot to fame when he taught a class on innovation wearing a pair of shorts has come up short at the hand of some bureaucrats’ rigid interpretation of regulations.