After 30 years of the Đổi mới (Renewal) reform, Việt Nam has recorded significant achievements in socio-economic development, lifting nearly 30 million people out of poverty. However, increasing income and wealth inequality is threatening the progress made in decades.
Here in Việt Nam, a TPP member long hyped as its largest beneficiary, the agreement is no longer an issue of major concern. The focus is on how trade liberalization will move in the coming months and years, with or without the US, and what the new directions are for smaller TPP members, especially export-driven economies like Việt Nam.
Hundreds of people are running out a building, screaming in terror. Several have their mouths covered with piece of cloth. Ear-splitting sirens blare as large red trucks speed through the streets to where a thick, ominous cloud of smoke billows. Even watchers are shouting and screaming. A deadly fire has struck again.
Strong trust, mutual understanding and convergence of views mark longstanding India-Việt Nam ties, Ambassador Parvathaneni Harish tells Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 45th Anniversary of bilateral diplomatic relations (January 7, 1972 - January 7, 2017).
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.
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.
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".
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
Hoàng Thanh Vân, head of the Department of Animal Husbandry under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, talks to Việt Nam News about 2016 results.
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.
There are criminals that can be rehabilitated and crimes that can be forgiven.
But child molest must absolutely not be one of them.
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.
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
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.
Nguyễn Hồng Trường, Deputy Minister of Transport, speaks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) about his ministry’s challenges in applying the National Single Window to simplify administrative procedures.
Last week, Việt Nam News asked its readers about Hà Nội’s first bus rapid transit (BRT) system, which will be ready by the end of this month. And here are some of the comments.
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.
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.
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.
