Nguyễn Quốc Hiệp, Chairman of the Việt Nam Association of Construction Contractors tells Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) that cumbersome legal requirements are one of the biggest challenges for Vietnamese construction companies.
Architect Đào Ngọc Nghiêm, former director of Hà Nội’s Department of Planning and Architecture, speaks to Cafeland – an online newspaper specialsing in real estate, about the need to remove factories from the inner city after the recent fire at Rạng Đông Light Sources and Vacuum Flask JSC
Photos of a simple school opening ceremony in the remote Tắk Pổ Village in the mountainous Nam Trà My District of central province of Quảng Nam went viral in recent days
The Government's website (baochinhphu.vn) recently published an interview with Dr Trần Chung, President of the Association of Private Investors in Road Transport, on strong and weak points of BOT projects in Việt Nam
Professor Nguyễn Phương Nga, Director of the Centre for Education Accreditation, talks to VietTimes on the need to have effective measures to ensure fairness for all students sitting examinations.
Deputy General Director of the General Department of State Reserves, Lê Văn Thời, talks to Quân đội nhân dân (People’s Army) newspaper about the implementation of rice support for poor students.
Doãn Hà Thắng, an expert on space technology, talks to Viet Nam News about the development of earth observation technologies (remote sensing) and how these can be applied for the country’s social-economic development and well-being.
PhD Doctor Nguyễn Quân, President of the Việt Nam Automation Association, talks to Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) newspaper on the role of automation in Industry 4.0
Thanh Xuân District should spend more time ensuring the well-being of the people, not who is authorised or not authorised to make a call – it’s simply not appropriate, especially when people are getting tired of the bureaucracy that is often decried for sluggishness and lacking compassion.
Hoàng Đức Minh, director of the Teachers and Educational Managers Department under the Ministry of Education and Training (MoET), talks to Vietnamnet e-newspaper about staff for the new school year and their salary policy.
Senior Lieutenant Colonel Phạm Quang Hiếu, Deputy Head of Naval Staff of Region 2 Command, talks to Quân đội nhân dân (People’s Army) newspaper about the Việt Nam People’s Navy’s participation in the first ASEAN-US Maritime Exercise (AUMX), which is taking place from September 2-6.
Nguyễn Viết Tiến, deputy health minister, talks to Tuổi trẻ cuối tuần (Youth Weekend edition) about the concerns raised over a two-year pilot programme that would grant full autonomy to the four largest public hospitals in the country – Bạch Mai, Việt Nam-Germany, K (in Hà Nội) and Chợ Rẫy Hospital (in HCM City).
Ninh Thị Thu Hương, director general of the Agency of Grassroots Culture, under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, talks to the newspaper Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) about her agency's efforts to regulate the advertisement industry.
Phạm Hùng Anh, director of the School Facilities and Equipment Department under the Ministry of Education and Training, spoke to the Lao Động (Labour) newspaper about preparations for the coming new school year.
Dr Hoàng Văn Cường, Vice Rector of the National Economics University, speaks to the newspaper Khoa học & Đời sống (Science and Life) about the differences between full-time and part-time diploma courses.
Deborah Greenfield, Deputy Director-General for Policy at the International Labour Organisation, spoke to Viet Nam News reporter Thu Vân about the Vietnamese Government's efforts to change its labour laws in line with requirements on labour rights in free trade agreements it has recently ratified, like the CPTPP and the EVFTA, as well as the challenges ahead in the world of work.
Việt Nam has made big strides in applying atomic energy in treating diseases, especially cancer. Dr Vương Hữu Tấn, Chairman of Việt Nam Atomic Energy Association, talks with VietTimes on how the country is using nuclear techniques in medicine.
Phùng Đức Tiến, Vice Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to the newspaper Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside today) on his ministry’s efforts to fight the swine fever epidemic.
