Interviews

In mid-February, retired Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen expressed concern over the long-term leasing of watershed forests to foreigners in certain provinces to a VietNamNet reporter.  On March 9, just a few weeks after retired Lieutenant General Dong Sy Nguyen talked with VietNamNet, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung declared a freeze...

Last year, the PM approved a plan to include lessons on anti-corruption in education programs and refresher training courses. But how should schools teach student to fight corruption? The opening ceremony of the new school year at a high school in Hanoi. VietNamNet: Suppose that schools want students to learn that people shouldn’t...

This commendation comes from German athletic expert, Dr. Uwe Freimuth, after four months of working with the athletes. Dr. Uwe Freimuth. After four months of working in Vietnam, how do you feel about the track-and field team? Within my four months in Vietnam, I have sent three reports about the situation of Vietnam’s athletes...

Drought and unusually high temperatures are now pervasive throughout Vietnam. A senior expert told Tuoi Tre that the proximate cause is El Ninõ. Canals and streams are drying up.  n the photo, Kenh Cha Va (Soc Trang 0)The rainy season ended very early last year. There was little rain at the end of July and from August onward, hardly...

VnnNews – “The Prime Minister himself also thinks that we should extend the negotiation-based interest rate scheme to short term as well” The stock market woke suddenly to the news that negotiation-based interest rates would be applied to medium and long term loans, borrowers and lenders as well as businesses and banks have...

Hanoi will develop five satellite cities, and the first will be built some 35 kilometers west of center city in Hoa Lac, said Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Dinh Toan said.  Deputy Minister of Construction Nguyen Dinh Toan.  Toan spoke to reporters after the Cabinet was briefed on a controversial master plan to guide...

In Vietnam, many people lack food in between-crop period so food hygiene can be seen as less important than food quantity, said an official from the Health Ministry.  A number of bad culinary habits and custom have not changed after hundreds of years and can cause high risk eating, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, vice head of the Ministry of...

VnnNews – “Even my own family blames me for traffic jams,” Minister of Transportation Ho Nghia Dung told the press in a New Year’s interview reported by Government News Online. VnnNews - “Even my own family blames me for traffic jams,” Minister of Transportation Ho Nghia Dung told the press in a New Year’s...

Tuoi Tre Cuoi Tuan (Youth Weekend) talked with Dr. Peter Werner from Germany’s Dresden University about the project to clean up the Hoan Kiem (Sword) Lake, Hanoi’s symbol. Dr. Peter Werner and Prof. Ha Dinh Duc at the Sword Lake. Dr. Werner is the chair of the ongoing $2.4 million project, which uses low-impact environmental...

Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh talked with VietNamNet’s readers about Vietnam’s position after its two years as an elected member of the UN Security Council.  Two years after joining the UN Security Council’s (UNSC) activities as an elected member, what has Vietnam contributed and gained from the experience? First...