Việt Nam News

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.

Agriculture expert and former Editor-in-chief of the Nông thôn Mới ( New Countryside) magazine Hoàng Trọng Thủy tells Hải quan ( Customs) newspaper about the need to make joint efforts in promoting safe food chain in Việt Nam.

Vương Đình Huệ, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the Steering Committee for Enterprise Renewal and Development speaks with Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about the restructuring of State-owned enterprises in the period of 2016-2020.

The Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government an investment plan for the ongoing North-South Expressway from Hà Nội to HCM City. Some experts are not keen.

It was around this time last year that the world’s leaders came together and committed to end hunger by 2030.  The Sustainable Development Goal to achieve Zero Hunger (SDG2) is an ambitious target, especially for the countries in our Asia-Pacific region including Viet Nam. After all, nearly two-thirds of the world’s undernourished – 490 million people – live among us in what is the biggest and most dynamic yet extremely inequitable region on the planet.

Vũ Hoàng Liên, Chairman of Việt Nam’s Internet Association speaks to the Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper about what the Fourth Industrial Revolution means for Việt Nam.

Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Viết Tiến tells Vietnamplus that drug resistance through antibiotic abuse is a global problem with particular national features requiring concerted efforts at both levels.

For the first time, Việt Nam Studies will be integrated with the scientific work of climate change and technology transfer, Professor Vũ Minh Giang, President of the Council for Science and Training under the Hà Nội National University tells the Viêt Nam News Agency (VNA).

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs, Nguyễn Trọng Đàm, talks to the Vietnam Plus online newspaper about the Poverty Reduction Policies and Programme Project (PRPP).

Đỗ Đức Duy, Deputy Minister of Construction, tells the Vietnam News Agency on his ministry’s determination to reform their paper work to help enterprises further expand their production and development

Associate Professor Trần Hoàng Ngân, a member of the National Assembly Economics Commission, tells the Giáo dục Việt Nam (Việt Nam Education) e-newspaper that he is confident the Government will implement in full the Politburo Resolution on managing public assets and public investment.

Đàm Quang Thắng, a member of the Startup Executive Board, under the Việt Nam Chamber of Commerce and Industry, speaks to the newspaper Hải Quan (Customs) about the need to change both policy and ways of thinking about startups in Việt Nam.

Trương Minh Tuấn, Minister of Information and Communications, speaks to the media about the acute problem of irritating messages sent from unregistered simcards and the role of  telecom companies to control them.

When Việt Nam’s main legislative body, the National Assembly, decided on Tuesday to cancel plans to build two nuclear power plants, many lauded the “courageous” move. There is no denying that this decision would have been really tough, after so many years of planning, spending money on feasibility studies, looking for foreign collaboration, and so on.

Nguyễn Trọng Đàm, Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs, talks to the newspaper Tin Tức (News) about the need to screen drug addicts before sending them to rehabilitation centres.

Hoàng Hải, deputy director of the State Agency for Construction Quality Inspection, under the Ministry of Construction talks to Kinh tế Việt Nam & Thế giới (Việt Nam & World Economic Affairs) about the need to conduct thorough inspections on the safety of old apartment buildings and houses.