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.
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.
Hoàng Hải, deputy director general of the Ministry of Finance’s Debt Management and External Finance Department, speaks to Customs Online on the need to have a level playing field for Vietnamese enterprises.
Phan Thị Thu Hiền, deputy director of the Directorate of Roads of Việt Nam, speaks to the Kinh tế Việt Nam & Thế Giới (Việt Nam & World Economy) on the safety and transparency benefits of electric toll collections (ETCs) in Việt Nam.
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
It was the stuff of action movies.
Five unarmed men stepped in to foil a group of armed thieves as they were trying to unlock and steal a motorbike.
A violent scuffle broke out, but, unlike in most movies, the heroes did not emerge winners, scathed or unscathed.
Nguyễn Văn Thể, Minister of Transport explains to www.chinhphu.vn that his ministry vows to be a pioneer in releasing ‘burden’ for enterprises.
May 12 is International Nurses Day. To mark the occasion, President of the Vietnamese Nurses Association Phạm Đức Mục talks to the Việt Nam News Agency about the indispensable role played by nurses in the country.
Prof. Trần Thanh Vân, founder of Recontres du Vietnam – a development initiative that has brought the world’s renowned scientists to Việt Nam for discussions since 1993 – talks with Việt Nam News reporter Hoàng Anh about this year’s event which marks 25 years since the first meeting.
Nuno Cunha, ILO senior specialist on social security, talks to Việt Nam media about a recent proposal to increase the retirement age of Vietnamese labourers.
A professor at Hoa Sen University in HCM City who shot to fame when he taught a class on innovation wearing a pair of shorts has come up short at the hand of some bureaucrats’ rigid interpretation of regulations.
Đào Ngọc Nghiêm, Vice Chairman of the Association of Hà Nội Urban Development Association, talks to the News Paper Urban Economic Time that it is not time to ask Vietnamese household owners to pay their real estate taxes.
Dr. Lưu Bích Hồ, former director of the Institute for Strategic Development, under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, talks to newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on challenges in the course of reforming the State apparatus
Nguyễn Quang Dũng, director general of the Department of Salary Affairs under the Ministry of Home Affairs, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about proposed changes in the future wage system. The proposals will be discussed at the Party Central Committee’s meeting, which opens today in Hà Nội.
Associate Dr Từ Sỹ Sùa, from the University of Transport, speaks to the Vietnam News Agency on how to create a level playing field between traditional taxis and companies that employ aapp based taxi technology.
Vietnamese have avoided multi-level marketing as though it were the plague, and for fair reason.
Mathilde Tuyết Trần* looks back to the events of April 30, 1975 and what that date means for her.
Professsor Phan Văn Tường, talks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about the importance of good time management in running a business
Nguyễn Ngọc Thành, Vice Chairman of the Việt Nam Real Estate Association, talks to Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper on how to solve disputes between apartment owners and the residents over the poor service of their flats
In June and July the Indian-made ComBe Five vaccine will replace the Korean-made Quinvaxem against five common, potentially fatal diseases affecting infants — diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, hepatitis B and haemophilus influenza type B.
