This article is written by H.E. Eligio Salas III, Ambassador from the Republic of Panama to Việt Nam, on the bicentennial anniversary of Panama's Independence from the Spain Crown, celebrated on November 28.

On the heels of its high vaccination rate, Việt Nam might be ready to graduate to the next step of ‘living with COVID-19’ – switching the almost obsessive focus from raw case count over the past two years to other more relevant metrics like hospitalisations, seriously ill cases and deaths.

Professor Nguyễn Đình Đức, lecturer of Hà Nội National University, spoke to the Vietnam News Agency about measures to attract talented people to work for education establishments.

As the Vietnamese government is rolling out a pilot program wherein international tourists with vaccine passports or those who have made a full recovery from COVID-19 can visit five destinations in Việt Nam starting from November 2021, without a quarantine mandate, we are able to observe the first positive signs of tourism recovery in Việt Nam.

Director of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Department of Electricity and Renewable Energy Hoàng Tiến Dũng talks to Vietnam News Agency about clean energy development to help Việt Nam reduce dependence on imports.

Hoàng Đăng Quang, Central Party Committee (CPC) member, Deputy Head of CPC Organisation Commission, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about a Politburo regulation issued this month on the dismissal and resignation of cadres.

Deputy Director of the Department of Livestock Production under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development Tống Xuân Chinh spoke to the Government Portal about measures to ensure ingredients for animal feed production, one of the key tasks assigned by the Government Resolution 128 on safe and flexible adaptation to and effective control of COVID-19.

Huỳnh Thành Đạt, Minister of Science and Technology (MoST) spoke to Vietnam News Agency about amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Intellectual Property (IP) Law, following the second plenary session of the 15th National Assembly (NA)

In a recent interview with Giáo Dục Việt Nam (Việt Nam's Education) online magazine, Director of the Higher Education Department under the MoET Nguyễn Thu Thuỷ shared her thoughts about incentives and policies to encourage Vietnamese intellectuals to return home after finishing studies abroad to contribute to the country.