Responsible employers stabilise labour market

Vũ Quang Thọ, director of the Trade Unions Institute under the Việt Nam General Confederation of Labour, talks to the newspaper Nông Thôn Ngày Nay (Countryside Today) on what measures employers should take to retain their workers.

A positive step in food safety management?

 
Nguyễn Thanh Phong, director general of the Department of Food Safety under the Ministry of Health, talks to the newspaper Kinh tế & Đô thị about a controversial change in food safety management. Now, many enterprises will be responsible for certifying the safety of their own products.

Hà Nội works towards housing for everyone

Khuất Văn Thành, director of Hà Nội Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, talks to the newspaper Hà Nội Mới (New Hà Nội) about the City’s resolve to leave no one without a proper dwelling place.

Environmental tax should help environment

Dr. Đinh Tuấn Minh, an economic expert, speaks to the Nông thôn ngày nay (Countryside Today) newspaper on how to use to the environmental tax to protect the environment

Stop burning objects in pagodas

Phạm Tất Thắng, vice chairman of the National Assembly Committee for Culture, Education, Youth and Children, talks to the Tiền Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about efforts to change public behaviour regarding the burning of votive objects in pagodas or shrines.

It’s time to provide more healthcare services

Health Minister Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến talks with Thời Báo Kinh Tế Việt Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) about projects to build more hospitals and provide better services for patients.  

Transport faces issues in 2018

Nguyễn Văn Thể, Minister of Transport, talks to Việt Nam News Agency about important missions for the transport sector in 2018.

Online bidding is VN’s future

Phạm Thy Hùng, director of the Public Procurement Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment, speaks to the newspaper Thời báo Kinh tế Việt Nam (Việt Nam Economic Times) on the need to further promote on-line bidding

Fines no deterrent in construction

Dr. Phạm Sỹ Liêm, Deputy Director of the Việt Nam Federation of Civil Engineering, speaks to Kinh Tế  & Đô Thị (Economy & Urban Affairs) newspaper on how to bring the Construction Law to life

Northern Power Corporation spreads the light

Lê Quang Thái, deputy director general of the EVN Northern Power Grid, talks to the Nông thôn Ngày nay (Countryside Today) about his corporation’s resolve to do their best to supply electricity to all households in northern mountainous provinces.

Gov’t lags behind in digital era

During an unprecedented trial between a HCM City taxi firm against Grab, a Uber-type company, for alleged unfair competition, the judge posed a simple but fundemental question: “What field was Grab’s business licence registered in?”

Much work to be done to end violence against women and girls

Last month a Vietnamese woman in Hanoi was attacked and set on fire by her foreign ex-boyfriend, who allegedly threw petrol at her, leaving her in critical condition with life-threatening burns. This shocking news is a painful reminder of the universality of the issue: there is no safe space from gender-based violence. The #MeToo movement around the world has underscored the widespread prevalence of sexual abuse and violence.

Uphold the law, don’t take it into your own hands

It is not for nothing that prostitution has been called the world’s oldest profession. To end it, we have to end male demand for sex and remove the socio-economic constraints that propel women into the profession.

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