Experts discuss improving HCM City livability

HCM City is striving to become a modern city. Its major goals include controlling water-logging, reducing traffic jams, implementing comprehensive urban planning, and undertaking administrative reforms. The Tiền Phong (Vanguard) Newspaper holds a round-table talk with experts to discuss ways of realising the targets.

Let’s join hands for a prosperous Việt Nam

Mai Tiến Dũng, Minister- Chairman of the Government Office speaks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) about the Government’s resolve to make a change in the State apparatus

When nature has taken her toll on us

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 achievement disease in education

The Ministry of Education and Training has finally decided to temporarily stop ViOlympic, an online math competition for primary and secondary school students.

Hybrid cars is the right choice for Việt Nam

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.

How to avoid buying shonky goods

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

Restructuring transport tricky

Nguyễn Ngọc Đông, Deputy Minister of Transport, speaks to Việt Nam News Agency on how to solve transportation problems.

Gov’t must hire talented people

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.

Vietnamese students need harmonious curriculum

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.

For whom do the BOT bells toll in Việt Nam

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.

Proper husbandry planning crucial to development

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

BOT transport projects teem with problems

Bùi Danh Liên, Chairman of the Hà Nội Transport Association, tells Hải Quan (Customs) that careless approval has created serious problems with BOT projects

City helps firms up capacity

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.

Worker housing pilot begins

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.

Youth empowerment key to growth: entrepreneur

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.

Lessons to learn from a low teaching point

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.

Training human resources for digital era is a must

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.

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