Job quality more important than unemployment rate

Dr Đào Quang Vinh, director of the Institute of Labour Science and Social Affairs, under the Ministry of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs, speaks to Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper on the importance of job quality.

Trademark is a matter of life or death for an enterprise

Lê Ngọc Lâm, deputy director of the Intellectual Property Rights Department under the Ministry of Science and Technology, speaks to Tuổi Trẻ (Youth) newspaper on the importance of having trademarks during international integration

How to better manage meat imports

Hoàng Thanh Vân, director of the Department of Breeding under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, speaks to the Kinh Tế Đô Thị (Economics and Urban Affairs) newspaper about managing imported meat.

Off to a good start, but start-up education falls short

The start-up frenzy started in Việt Nam around two years ago when the Government began calling for more investment in the start-up community and demonstrated their political will by a series of pragmatic actions. The biggest move was the approval of the scheme titled “Supporting the National Innovation Startup Ecosystem by 2025”, else known as the Project 844, last year of which some estimated of VNĐ2 trillion (US$88.8 million) would be poured into around 2,000 high-tech start-ups.

Streamlined gov’t is a good gov’t

Bùi Thị An, Associate Professor and a former deputy to the 13th National Assembly, speaks to Kinh tế & Đô thị (Economic and Urban Affairs) newspaper about the draft proposal on the re-organisation of city/provincial departments across the country.

Fighting social insurance challenges

Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Doãn Mậu Diệp, talks to Hải Quan (Customs) newspaper about solutions to ease the burden of social insurance fund for retirees

No one left behind in HCM City

Trần Vinh Tuyến, Deputy Chairman of HCM City People’s Committee talks to Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about the city’s resolve to return street pavements to pedestrians.

Trimming public sector a must

Thang Văn Phúc, former Minister of Home Affairs, talks to the Hải Quan Online (Customs Online) about the Government’s plan to down size the country’s public employees

How to tighten business registration

Trần Thị Hồng Minh, director of Department for Business Registration Management, Ministry of Planning and Investment, tells the Vietnam Economic Times newspaper that the supervision of enterprises after business registration should not be the job of only State agencies.

BOT toll collection mechanisms need tweaking

Nguyễn Hồng Trường, Deputy Transport Minister explains to chinhphu.vn (Government Portal) the financial workings of some BOT projects that have attracted public criticism.

Hà Nội needs stronger land use planning

Architect Đỗ Viết Chiến, a former director of the Urban Development Department, under the Ministry of Construction speaks to the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about current problems faced by Hà Nội in urban planning and what city authorities should do to solve the problem

The hurdles to loaning $.4.4 billion

Nguyễn Đức Thành, director of the Việt Nam Institute for Economic and Policy Research (VEPR), speaks to the newspaper Đại Đoàn Kết (Great Unity) about the Government’s soft loans for high-tech agriculture production

Sober reflections on drinking laced liquor

A young girl recently shared a sadden story about the death of her father on Facebook. The 48-year-old man died of drinking methanol-tainted alcohol, the tragedy that the Hanoian said she never thought of even though she said she was aware of such type of accidents now and then from the media.

I can’t bear the fact either.

Red River plan should protect its ecosystem

Dương Trung Quốc, National Assembly Deputy and a historian, tells VOV Online that preserving the Red River ecosystem should be a vital part of plans to exploit it.

Not a fine example of abiding by the law

Police in the central city of Vinh stopped and fined a woman last Friday for driving a motorbike without its left mirror. The driver, Nguyễn Thị Minh Quyên, 29, also failed to show police a driving licence and vehicle registration.

High-tech agriculture should suit VN conditions

Professor Trần Đình Long, chairman of Việt Nam Plant Seed Association spoke with Khoa học&Đời sống (Science&Life) newspaper about the building of hi-tech agriculture in Việt Nam and difficulties the country will be likely to face when applying the model.

New agency targets effective food quality controls

HCM City has established a Food Safety and Hygiene Management board, the first of its kind in the country. Phạm Khánh Phong Lan, head of the board that will operate on a pilot basis for three years, tells Hải Quan (Customs) that the basic aim is to improve management of food quality.

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