Việt Nam News

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.

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.

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.

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.