Better skills required of Vietnamese seeking work abroad

Phạm Viết Hương, deputy director of the Overseas Labour Export Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affaris, speaks to the Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) newspaper about Việt Nam’s resolve to improve the skills of its workers abroad.

Teacher’s more of a lesson than what is taught

Stories about unsavoury incidents at schools have been doing the rounds a lot these days.

However, most of them have involved some kind of misbehaviour by students, followed sometimes by improper responses from teachers or school administrations. The latest one was a bit different.

A government of the people and for the people

To mark the onset of the New Year, Minister and Government Office Chief Mai Tiến Dũng speaks to the media about the government’s resolve to work by the principles of "integrity, actions and development".

VN traffic won’t improve without sacrifice: economist

Economist Lương Hoài Nam tells the Tuổi trẻ (Youth) newspaper about the urgent trade-offs between private transport and public transport and offers the way forward to curbing traffic congestion in major cities

 

Ban on home use as offices to be enforced

The Government has banned enterprises from using residential apartments as offices in 2015. However, the use of apartments for business operations is rampant. Vietnam News Agency talked about this with Nguyễn Mạnh Khởi, deputy director of the Ministry of Construction’s Housing and Real Estate Market Management Department.

Arable land is crop unfriendly

Mai Văn Trịnh, Director General of the Việt Nam Institute for Agricultural Environment, tells the Nông thôn Việt Nam (Việt Nam Rural) Newspaper that the soil in the Red Delta is fast losing its nutrients, and is severely polluted in many areas.

 

Agro restructuring beginning to bear fruit

Export turnover of fruits and vegetables has exceeded that of rice for the first time, Agriculture and Rural Development Minister Nguyễn Xuân Cường tells Việt Nam News in a year-end talk on agricultural restructuring

Low labor cost no more an advantage

Vũ Tiến Lộc, Chairman of the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, talks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about the high demand for skilled workers to meet new requirements of national economic development.

Measures we need to take to measure up

Imagine risking your life every day just to go to school.

If you’ve been in Viet Nam long enough, chances are that you’ve heard of all the ways many poor kids in the country, especially in remote and mountainous areas, have to take to go to school.

Pricey Tết gifts to bosses are bribery

Ngô Văn Sửu, former head of the Party Central Committee for Disciplinary Inspection Commission, speaks to the newspaper Khoa học & Đời sống (Science & Life) about Prime Minister Phúc’s order to prohibit the giving of expensive gifts for the upcoming  Lunar New Year festival.

35-meter flats are the answer

Dr Trần Kim Chung, deputy director of the Central Institute of Economic Management, speaks to the newspaper Tuổi trẻ (Youth) about advantages of building small flats for low-income residents.

Gov’t mulls added work hours

Lê Đình Quảng, deputy head of the Labour Relations Department under the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA), speaks to the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper about longer working hours.

Migration - a journey we must take together

Director of the International Organisation for Migration’s Regional Officer for Asia and the Pacific, Dr Nenette Motus, shares his view on the situation of migration.

 

The correct person, wrongly appointed?

Aida Hadzialic became the youngest ever minister in the history of Sweden at the age of 27. Before taking office as the Minister for Upper Secondary School, Adult Education and Training in 2014, the talented, young woman who fluently speaks five languages already served as a deputy mayor of the city of Halmstad when she was only 23. Though having to resign following an alcohol limit breach while driving in August, Hadzialic basically represents a breeze of fresh air that every Vietnamese looks for in the Government filled with old men and women who seemed out of breathe catching up with the world moving too fast.

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