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• ’Business as usual’ won’t drive growth: official

  Nguyen Van Binh, member of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Economic Affairs, told the Vietnam Economic Forum 2017 held in Hanoi that the nation’s exports were largely dependent on the foreign direct investment sector, while local companies were mainly exporting products and produce with little added value. “This means the growth still comes significantly from external forces,” Binh said, adding that competitive advantages such as cheap labour would not last forever, especially with increasing competition from countries with lower production costs. “Vietnam has reaches an economic development level which requires policy breakthroughs to become a higher-income country,” he…... [read more]

• A political opportunist unmasked

  Toan was born in 1955 in Vu Ban district, northern Nam Dinh province. He lives at 11 Trang Tien alley, Trang Tien ward, Hoan Kiem precinct, Hanoi. He is a graduate of the general school, but unemployed. In 1979, Toan served a nine month suspended sentence handed down by the Ba Dinh precinct court for theft and trade in stolen properties. In 1983, he got a written warning issued by the Ba Dinh court on the charge of trading “stolen goods”. In August 2002, Toan was arrested and sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment and three years’ probation for espionage activities.…... [read more]

• NA heads for global parliamentary standards

  The deputies discussed the role and supervisory function of NA deputies and delegations, the deputy’s right to submit draft laws, the increase of number of full-time deputies, and when to meet with voters. Increasing the number of full-time deputies In the 13th National Assembly, 18.2% of deputies at the central level and 12.6% at the local level are full-time. In order to improve NA performance, full-time deputies should be at least 35% of NA deputies. Pham Xuan Truong is a deputy from Thai Binh province. “I suggest we appoint at least two people, including the head or the deputy head…... [read more]

• First legal HIV cooperative gives victims a livelihood

  Pham Cong Chuan, head of the cooperative and also founder of the Hy Vong network, a group of people living with HIV/AIDS in Thai Binh province, said this was an important decision. Friday’s launch also included the opening of the cooperative’s garment workshop for HIV/AIDS victims to learn vocational skills. “From now on, people living with HIV/AIDS can feel more self-confident and be able to live with more responsibility in their lives”, said Chuan. Established in 2006, the network aims to help people who have recently contracted HIV/AIDS by advising them on options for treatment while also training cooperative members…... [read more]

• 80 percent of redundant workers get re-employed

  HCM City topped the list of laid-off workers (15,548), followed by Hanoi (13,245) and Binh Duong (8,002). These unemployed workers focused on sectors such as garments and textiles, footwear, seafood and farm products processing, construction, the automobile industry, electronics, and real estate or from enterprises, which produce exports or have imported materials from foreign enterprises. According to these reports, around 30,594 workers in craft villages in rural areas lost their jobs in the first quarter. Thai Binh province took the lead with 6,427 laid-off workers, followed by Bac Ninh province (6,150). In addition, due to the impact of the global…... [read more]

• Two more anti-State instigators arrested

  Trung, born in 1983, lives at 6/1 Nguyen Canh Di Road, ward No4, Tan Binh Precinct, HCM City. While studying in France in 2002, Trung collaborated with other reactionaries Nguyen Gia Kieng, Bui Tin and Vu Thu Hien to found an organisation called the Democratic Youth Movement. This organisation, led by Trung, planned to team up with other groups inside and outside Vietnam to demand a political change. Upon his return to Vietnam, Trung met with Hoang Minh Chinh, Tran Anh Kim and others to discuss the establishment of another reactionary organisation called the Democratic Party of Vietnam to carry…... [read more]

• Local clinics to join in A/H1N1 testing

  The Ministry also said it will make public the names of the qualified clinics immediately after the examination so they can promptly provide testing services and help confirmed cases with right treatment. The Ministry has so far organized training courses on testing for the A/H1N1 virus for health workers from 15 provinces and cities. This has helped the southern provinces of Tien Giang, Vung Tau, An Giang and Dong Nai have been able to conduct quick tests for the disease. Only the preventive health centres of Thanh Hoa and Thai Binh provinces and the Thai Binh Medical College have been…... [read more]

• Storm Parma nears coastal provinces

  At an emergency meeting of the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention in Hanoi on October 13, Mr Hai asked the committee to monitor the number of vessels still at sea and force fishermen to leave their vessels and fishing cages for safer areas. At 17.00 the storm, packing sustained winds of 89 and 117 km/h near its centre, was heading towards the coastal provinces between Nghe An and Quang Ninh. It is forecast to make landfall late at night and to bring heavy rains of between 100-200mm before weakening into a tropical depression on October 14. The Minister…... [read more]

• Overseas Vietnamese raise funds for flood victims

  The sum was donated by Vietnamese agencies, businesses and organisations in Russia. Meanwhile in The Hague, a representative of the Golden Heart Fund’s mobilising board of the Vietnamese community in the Netherlands has handed over a donation worth over 5,000 euro to the Vietnamese Embassy in the Netherlands. The sum will be sent to the Vietnam Fatherland Front to assist people in Central Vietnam to overcome storm Ketsana’s aftermath to the Vietnam Television’s Viet Heart Fund to help kids born with heart diseases and to the care and vocational training centre for Agent Orange/dioxin children in northern Thai Binh province.... [read more]

• Law on food hygiene and safety needed

  Less than a month since January 14, the Food Hygiene and Safety Department under the Ministry of Health has set up 10 inter-sector inspection teams to examine the implementation of food hygiene and safety regulations in provinces and cities throughout the country. A Radio Voice of Vietnam (VOV) reporter interviewed Head of the Food Hygiene and Safety Department Nguyen Cong Khan on this issue. VOV: The Department has set up inspection teams to ensure food safety during the Traditional Lunar New Year Festival (Tet). Could you please elaborate on their activities? Mr Khan: Implementing the Prime Minister’s Decree 67 on…... [read more]