Politics

The licensing of forestation projects to foreign investors ensuring that rice growers make a profit of at least 30 percent compared with production cost topped . . .
LookAtVietnam - The licensing of forestation projects to foreign investors ensuring that rice growers make a profit of at least 30 percent compared with production cost topped the concerns of lawmakers...

Minister of Defence Phung Quang Thanh told reporters that all participants in a gathering of defense officials agreed they must maintain a peaceful and stable environment in the East Sea.
VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Defence Phung Quang Thanh told reporters that all participants in an informal gathering of defense officials, including Americans and Chinese,...

VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly will consider and announce government positions on June 18, said NA Office Chairman Tran Dinh Dan.
National Assembly to approve new Minister of Education
The NA will approve a new Minister of Education and Training to replace Minister Nguyen Thien Nhan, who is also Deputy Prime Minister.
Dan...

On June 8 VietNamNet and UNDP Vietnam launched the first-ever online public poll on Vietnamese citizens’ views of and experiences with public administrative procedures.
On June 8 VietNamNet and UNDP Vietnam launched the first-ever online public poll on Vietnamese citizens’ views of and experiences with public administrative procedures...

US Assistant Secretary of State Andrew J. Shapiro.
LookAtVietnam - The US is seeking for more funding to assist Vietnamese dioxin victims and clear unexploded ordnance in Vietnam, said US Assistant Secretary of State Andrew J. Shapiro at a press conference on June 8, after the third Vietnam-US strategic dialogue on politics, security and national...

VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies analyzed problems of Vietnam’s higher education at a working session on June 7.
Harvard report says universities’ problem is central control
Worrying figures about higher education
Higher education is the biggest challenge for Vietnam: official
Minister of Education and Training...

Sean Doyle, ambassador and head of the EC Delegation to Vietnam, said on June 7 that the EU has never discussed Vietnam’s express railway project because it is not the Union’s interest.
LookAtVietnam - Sean Doyle, ambassador and head of the Delegation of the European Commission to Vietnam, said at a press conference in Hanoi June 7 that the EU has...

Admiral Robert Willard, Commander of the US Pacific Fleet.
LookAtVietnam - High-ranking American officials have expressed their nation’s ‘growing concern’ over threats to free navigation and economic development in the South China Sea area.
China’s claim to 80 percent of East Sea unacceptable
Int’l experts study,...
LookAtVietnam - Sustainable development and green growth are key issues in economic growth models in the world, including East Asia.
Mekong River: only cooperation can help
Is an East Asian age emerging?
World Economic Forum on East Asia opens
East Asia “must not become complacent” as crisis abates
The 2010 World Economic Forum on...
The World Economic Forum on East Asia gives Vietnam a chance to draw lessons for its development through speeches by international experts and scholars, said President Nguyen Minh Triet.
East Asia WEF offers lessons for Vietnam’s development
The 2010 World Economic Forum on East Asia gives Vietnam a chance to draw lessons for its development through speeches...