Public sector should self-finance

Phạm Văn Trường, director of the Department of Finance and Public Administration under the Ministry of Finance, speaks to Hải Quan (Customs) Online about his ministry’s resolve to cut down costs and improve the quality and effectiveness of its public services.

Occupational training essential to attracting FDI

Vũ Đại Thắng, deputy minister of Planning and Investment, talks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam newspaper about the importance of a high quality workforce to attracting FDI enterprises in high tech.

Road maintenance bidding online by 2019

 

Director of the Directorate for Roads of Việt Nam Nguyễn Văn Huyện talks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about how online bidding works.

Development of new rural area should go into depth and be sustainable

Nguyễn Minh Tiến, Chief of Secretariat of the National Co-ordination Office of the National Target Programme on New Rural Development talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on the need to have sustainability and depth in carrying out the campaign to build new rural areas

Cybersecurity law targets criminals: NA deputies

The controversial cybersecurity law was passed by the National Assembly (NA) on June 12 with 86.86 per cent approval. On the sidelines, NA deputies talk to An Ninh Thủ Đô (Capital Security) newspaper on how the bill won’t harm Constitution-mandated civil rights or initiate mass surveillance.

Revision of Anti-Corruption Law imperative

Phạm Trọng Đạt, Head of the government Inspectorate’s Anti-Corruption Bureau talks to media workers on what should be revised in the current Law on Anti Corruption

Strong State coffer depends on tax revenue

Professor Dr Lê Xuân Trường, a senior lecturer of tax in the Accademy of Finance, speaks to the Hải quan (Customs) newspaper on various ways to prevent losses in the State budget

Sub-customs departments to be slashed

Phạm Thị thu Hương, deputy director of the Personnel Department from the Việt Nam Customs talks to Hải quan Cuối tuần (Customs Weekend) on her office department’s efforts to improve their work efficiency with fewer staff

Transparency and accountability is a key to success

Ngô Thị Minh, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children, speaks to Tuổi trẻ Cuối tuần (Youth Weekend Edition) on how best to utilise the State budget in general education.

Voters asked for specific solutions

Minister of Transport Nguyễn Văn Thể found himself in the firing line Monday as he opened the Q&A session at the National Assembly. Thể was grilled by lawmakers over problems relating to transport projects invested under build-operate-transfer (BOT). 

Disbursement of budget met with flaws

Đinh Văn Nhã, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Committee for Finance and Budgetary Affairs, talks to the Việt Nam News Agency about his concern over the ineffectiveness of using the State budget in many localities.

HCM City considers anti-crime task force

Three Star General Lê Quý Vương, Deputy Minister of the Public Security, talks to dantri.vn on the need to have good co-ordination between various forces in the fight against criminals

Children are our future

Nguyễn Thanh Trúc, an expert in child protection of UNICEF, Hà Nội, talks to Nhân dân cuối tuần (People’s Weekend) on measures to prevent abuse of children.

Half of civil service to be slashed

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.

The truth about the lie of the land

It was Mark Twain who inimitably said: “Buy land, they are not making it anymore.” Sound advice when land is turned into a commodity that is bought and sold in a “free market,” but this is a mythical entity for many people in Việt Nam, because they can only dream of owning a piece of land or a home in the nation’s urban areas.

Eyes on Vietnamese goods abroad

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

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