Restructure the State Budget to make it more efficient

Trương Bá Tuấn, deputy director general of the Institute for Strategic and Financial Policies - under the Ministry of Finance (MoF), speaks to Vietnam News Agency on the MoF’s proposal to restructure the national budget.

Central VN seeks investment

Phan Xuân Dũng, Chairman of the National Assembly Commission for Science, Technology and Environment, speaks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper about the central region’s readiness for foreign investors.

Hà Nội crafts ambitious plan to ease traffic stranglehold

Khuất Việt Hùng, Vice Chairman of the National Committee of Traffic Safety, has been cycling to work for the past seven years. As someone who deals with the country’s traffic problems, he feels the need to set an example through his modest efforts to reduce traffic congestion and air pollution in Hà Nội.

Hà Nội’s ’golden’ land needs better oversight

For the second time in two years, a proposal put forward by the Hà Nội Police Department to move Hà Nội Railway Station (HNRS) and all inter-provincial railway tracks to the suburbs has been rejected by many experts and citizens.

The first 1,000 days: a golden opportunity

The most important thing for human beings is our brain. Yet when we have young babies we are not caring for the development of their brains the way we care for their bodies. Brain development should be our biggest concern for all of us because it lays the foundation for a child future. It’s right to be a priority for government leaders as well as businesses.

Experts discuss improving HCM City livability

HCM City is striving to become a modern city. Its major goals include controlling water-logging, reducing traffic jams, implementing comprehensive urban planning, and undertaking administrative reforms. The Tiền Phong (Vanguard) Newspaper holds a round-table talk with experts to discuss ways of realising the targets.

Let’s join hands for a prosperous Việt Nam

Mai Tiến Dũng, Minister- Chairman of the Government Office speaks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about the Government’s resolve to make a change in the State apparatus

When nature has taken her toll on us

Floods in early August in northern Việt Nam killed 27 people and washed away hundreds of homes, causing damage estimated at more than US$43 million. Conditions have also caused widespread devastation since then for the northern mountainous provinces of Sơn La, Điện Biên, Yên Bái and Lai Châu.

 

 

The achievement disease in education

The Ministry of Education and Training has finally decided to temporarily stop ViOlympic, an online math competition for primary and secondary school students.

Hybrid cars is the right choice for Việt Nam

Dr Ngô Trí Long, former director of the Ministry of Finance’s Price and Market Research Institute, speaks to Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper about the need for a thorough understanding of plug-in- hybrid vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles.

How to avoid buying shonky goods

Nguyễn Ngọc Tuyết Trinh, Vice Chairwoman of the Việt Nam Association Against Counterfeiting and Protecting and Intellectual Property Rights talks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) on how consumers can avoid buying fake goods

Restructuring transport tricky

Nguyễn Ngọc Đông, Deputy Minister of Transport, speaks to Việt Nam News Agency on how to solve transportation problems.

Gov’t must hire talented people

Professor and Dr Nguyễn Chí Mỳ, former director of the Hà Nội Department of Publicity and Training speaks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on the need to create a competitive environment to attract talented people to the civil service.

Vietnamese students need harmonious curriculum

Nguyễn Minh Thuyết, Editor in Chief of the curriculum for comprehensive education reform, tells the Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper that the reform must ensure harmonisation throughout the curriculum.

For whom do the BOT bells toll in Việt Nam

In what has become a regrettably familiar scenario in the country, authorities have responded belatedly to angry protests by reducing and canceling toll at yet another booth, this time in the Mekong Delta Province of Tiền Giang.

Proper husbandry planning crucial to development

Hoàng Thanh Vân, director general of the Department of Livestock Husbandry, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, talks to Vietnam News Agency about what Việt Nam should do to secure a sustainable husbandry development

BOT transport projects teem with problems

Bùi Danh Liên, Chairman of the Hà Nội Transport Association, tells Hải Quan (Customs) that careless approval has created serious problems with BOT projects

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