Việt Nam News

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is home to 40 per cent of the world’s population, 50 per cent of global trade, and 60 per cent of global GDP. Over the last quarter century, APEC has shaped and transformed the global economy and supported half a billion people in their rise out of poverty.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The many uses of biotechnology in helping to feed the world’s hungriest region – Asia and the Pacific

Overseas Professor Trần Thanh Vân talks to the newspaper Tiền Phong (Vanguard) about the country’s need to pay a high salary to people working in science and technology.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The fight against corruption in Việt Nam has never been this aggressive.

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.