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.
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.
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
Bùi Danh Liên, Chairman of the Hà Nội Transport Association, tells Hải Quan (Customs) that careless approval has created serious problems with BOT projects
The HCM City People's Committee has issued Decision 15/2017/QĐ-UBND on supporting businesses in investing in developing the manufacturing and supporting sectors. Việt Nam News asks Phạm Thành Kiên, director of the city Department of Industry and Trade, about the implementation of the policy.
Bùi Văn Cường, President of the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour, talks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about building low-cost apartments for industrial park workers.
Việt Nam as a member of the United Nations (UN) and a signatory to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) supports the UN in embracing a people-centred approach to development.
Many teaching colleges have announced their minimum entrance scores and prospective teachers need just a record low of nine out of 30 to enter these teacher training institutions.
Lưu Bình Nhưỡng, a permanent member of the National Assembly Committee for Social Affairs, speaks to the newspaper Thế giới & Việt Nam (the World & Việt Nam) about the imperative to train highly skilled workers.
Đàm Mạnh Dương, Director of the Department of High Technology, under the Ministry of Science and Technology and Professor Doctor Trần Đình Thiên, Director of Việt Nam Institute for Economics, talk to Kinh tế Việt Nam & Thế Giới (Việt Nam and the World’s Economy) about Việt Nam and the fourth industrial revolution.
Dr Nguyễn Quân, former Minister of Science and Technology, speaks to the newspaper Hà Nội mới (New Hà Nội) about the role played by venture capital funds in start-up development.
Phạm Minh Huân, former Chairman of the National Wage Council, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about salary increase proposals for 2018.
