Sustainable Development Goals

Many public and private universities throughout the country in the 2020-2021 academic year will launch new majors to meet labour market trends and demands. Public universities have created new programmes following a regulation that expanded university autonomy in the amended Law on Higher Education that took effect last July.Keep reading ...

Khanh Hoa authorities confirmed Friday that a female hotel receptionist has caught the coronavirus infection from two Chinese nationals presently quarantined in Saigon.The patient worked at a hotel on Ton Dan Street in Nha Trang beach town. Li Ding, 66, and his son Li Zi ...

Vietnam has proactively integrated into the world at various levels and in diversified forms by embracing global market principles and standards.Recently, private investment in education has been on the rise, with numerous local and foreign names. Compared to 2018, the number of education projects has ...

Businesses are an important driver for the development of science and technology in Vietnam. Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Le Xuan Dinh writes about how the ministry supports local businesses in their quest to boost innovative solutions and technology advancements.The ministry aims to make ...

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has reiterated the priority given to the prevention and fight against epidemics, as the number of patients infected with the novel coronavirus (nCoV) continues to rise.Deputy Health Minister Đỗ Xuân Tuyên said Việt Nam has counted 59 suspected cases ...

Vietnam trails behind most of its Southeast Asian peers and is in the bottom half of a global ranking in attracting talent.It is in 96th place in the 2020 Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI), an annual report compiled by French business school INSEAD, Swiss HR ...

Transparency International (TI) launched the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019 on 23 January 2020, ranking 180 countries and territories based on business people and country experts’ perception of corruption in the public sector in those countries/territories.This year, Vietnam scored 37/100, up by 4 points compared to ...

The new solar power rates proposed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), much lower than the current average electricity retail price of VND1,864 (8 cents) a kWh, would erase all incentive to develop solar power over other sources, the Finance Ministry has said.Under ...

Việt Nam must continue to take “concrete climate actions” to become a low-carbon economy and comply with the global Paris Agreement, a workshop heard in HCM City on 7 January.  The workshop was held to review JICA’s project for “Support the Planning and Implementation of ...

The Vietnam Development Report (VDR) 2019: Connecting Vietnam for Growth and Shared Prosperity was co-launched by the World Bank (WB) and the Ministry of Investment and Planning in Hanoi on January 15.The report is a series of flagship analytical and policy reports by the WB ...