Equitisation is the right move

Nguyễn Đình Cung, director general of the Central Institute of Economic Management, speaks to the Nhân dân (People) newspaper on the need to the make the best use of the State budget in State-owned enterprises following their equitisation

Public debt a tricky issue

Dr. Hoàng Văn Cường, a member of the National Assembly Committee on Economic Affairs, talks to the Investment Review newspaper on his Committee’s resolve to tighten the management of public debt

Smart urban areas are right for VN

Đặng Hùng Võ, former deputy minister of Natural Resources and Environment, speaks to the Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper on the advantages of developing smarter and more sustainable urban areas.

Corruption must be rooted out

Bùi Đức Thụ, Deputy Chairman of the National Assembly’s Committee for Deputy Affairs, speaks to the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper on the need to tightly supervise people with power

Gov’t goes after fraudulent ’war invalids’

Lê Tấn Dũng, deputy minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, tells Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper that the Government will take tough measures against those who abuse the country’s humanitarian law on war invalids.

There’s nothing such as safe drinking

Alcohol consumption can harm the drinker, but what’s worse is when it harms an innocent. On August 27, 2017, Hoàng Văn Thuận, 39, went from work to his friend’s house in Nghệ An Province to drink. Getting home after wards, drunk, Thuận raped his own daughter, who was just 14 years old.

Tight control for quality agriculture products

Tạ Văn Tường, deputy director of Hà Nội Department of Agriculture and Rural Development talks to Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper on food safety for consumers.

Labour force in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution

Associate Professor Hoàng Minh Sơn, rector of the Hà Nội University of Science and Technology, speaks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economics Time) on the skills needed in the 4.0 Industrial Revolution

KPI can measure e-Government success

Mai Tiến Dũng, Minister and Chairman of the Office of the Government, talks to Thanh Niên (Young People) newspaper about the Key Performance Indicator, an effective tool to measure the quality of electronic government.

Examining fallout of high school exam scandal

The new kind of exam lifted such a burden from the students and their families. That all localities have decent infrastructure to host a national-level exam was one necessary condition for the two-in-one test. But the other, in which localities must ensure the security, secrecy and general quality of the exam, was somehow missing.

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