Professor Trần Đình Long, chairman of Việt Nam Plant Seed Association spoke with Khoa học&Đời sống (Science&Life) newspaper about the building of hi-tech agriculture in Việt Nam and difficulties the country will be likely to face when applying the model.

HCM City has established a Food Safety and Hygiene Management board, the first of its kind in the country. Phạm Khánh Phong Lan, head of the board that will operate on a pilot basis for three years, tells Hải Quan (Customs) that the basic aim is to improve management of food quality.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Đỗ Thắng Hải tells the Vietnam News Agency that the nation will have to deal effectively with new-generation FTAs as it deepens its international integration.

Deputy Minister of Transport Nguyễn Nhật speaks with the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about measures to redress shortcomings in the management of dredging projects

Nguyễn Chỉ Sáng, director general of the National Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, speaks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about the need for workable policies

Nguyễn Văn Biên, VINACOMIN deputy director, tells Tuổi Trẻ (Youth), that there are positive aspects to the Tân Rai bauxite mining project.

Associate Professor Phạm Trung Lương, former deputy director of the Institute for Tourism Development, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, speaks to Bnews.vn on how to turn the tourism industry into a spearhead economic sector.

Doãn Mậu Diệp, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, tells the Hải quan (Customs) Newspaper that the country plans to increase the quality of workers sent abroad

The head of the Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Preventive Medicine, Trần Đắc Phu, speaks to the online VietnamPlus newspaper about the latest wave of whooping cough, which has killed five children.