Việt Nam News

Ten years ago this month, the Bạch Mai Hospital (under the Ministry of Health) in Hà Nội  began transferring technology and providing technical assistance to the remote province Yên Bái under a programme aimed at reducing people having to go to major hospitals in large cities to receive modern treatment. Hospital director Dr Nguyễn Quốc Anh reviews the programme in a talk with the Sức Khoẻ & Đời Sống (Health & Life) newspaper.

The National Assembly has passed a revised law on fisheries as Việt Nam prepares a national plan to prevent, minimise and eliminate illegal fishing by 2025. Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vũ Văn Tám, talks with Tin Tức (News) newspaper about the issue

Dương Đức Tuấn, director of the Centre for Health Insurance Appraisal and Multi-level Payments in the North, under Việt Nam Social Insurance, tells Vietnamplus that “socialisation” in the healthcare sector has not proved to be very friendly to patients

Lê Quốc Phong, First Secretary of the Việt Nam Youth Union, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about the tasks for Vietnamese youth over the next five years ahead of the National Congress of the Việt Nam Youth Union in Hà Nội from December 10-13.

Trương Thanh Đức, Chairman of the BASICO Law Firm and an arbitrator with the Việt Nam International Arbitration Centre, tells Kinh tế& Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper why people’s credit funds should be persisted with despite several collapses.

Dr Hoàng Đình Cảnh, deputy director of the Việt Nam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about the country’s efforts to increase early HIV screening tests, as an estimated 20 per cent of HIV sufferers do not know they are infected.

Việt Nam’s population is getting older, but not richer, Nguyễn Văn Tân, deputy director general of the General Office for Population and Family Planning talks to Nhân Dân Cuối Tuần (The People’s Weekly) magazine about the issue.

The tension ratcheted up in the Korean peninsula by state actors and the Western media in particular seemed to peak as the isolated country successfully fired an intercontinental ballistic missile less than a week ago. The drama continues, but there has been a decisive shift in the status-quo.

Unsustainable development is partly to blame for worsening natural disasters in Việt Nam, Hoàng Văn Thắng, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said in an interview with Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper.

Measurements of air pollution recently scared many Hà Nội people. However, deputy head of Hà Nội’s Natural Resources and Environment Department, Lê Tuấn Định, said that results did not accurately reflect the city’s air quality. The Kinh Tế and Đô Thị (Economy and City) Newspaper talks with him the issue.

Dr Mai Liêm Trực, former deputy minister of Post and Telecommunications talks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about the need to further complete the draft Law on Cyber Security

The regularity with which instances of brutality towards their wards by nannies and caretakers at kindergartens are coming to light is as frightening as it is horrific.

Đặng Huy Đông, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment , tells Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) that the Planning Law will boost growth and be welcomed by enterprises.

Education, health care and housing are all essential needs. The Vietnamese Government has focused on housing policy over the last decade, in particular building cheap apartments or reconstructing old or deteriorating houses. Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper talks to some experts on how to address increasing housing demand.

Vivian Balakrishnan, Singapore’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and 2018 chair of ASEAN, tells journalists that to understand the bloc’s history and challenges, it is important to examine the external environment and strategic forces that have shaped it over the last 50 years.

Minister of Education and Training Phùng Xuân Nhạ spoke with Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Vietnam Economics Times) about the tightening of regulations on doctoral training of the ministry in order to create high-qualified human resource instead of massive training of PhDs.

Hà Công Tuấn, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about his ministry’s resolve to make forests a key resource for national economic development

Professor Doctor Vũ Trọng Hồng, former deputy minister of agriculture and rural development, argues that the country’s recent experiences with natural calamities wre caused in part by a failure to link the national strategy on economic development with a plan to prevent environmental disasters.