Fifty-five team members under the project to send 500 young intellectuals to rural and mountainous areas in 16 provinces continue working under labor contracts, while awaiting new assignments. They passed rigorous selection rounds to join the system.

Officials urge the Ministry of Home Affairs to ensure special recruitment for qualified members of the 500 Young Intellectuals program amid looming layoffs.

Vietnam’s durian industry - recently hailed as a billion-dollar fruit export - has achieved remarkable growth, becoming a major agricultural sector. However, its rapid expansion now poses several risks.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on Vietnam’s negotiation team to intensify efforts and move swiftly toward finalizing a bilateral reciprocal trade agreement with the United States.

The Prime Minister proposes creating a regulated gold exchange to enable transparent public trading and prevent market manipulation and smuggling.

Deputy Minister Nguyen Manh Khuong to lead wage-setting body advising on minimum wage policy and labor standards.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh has directed government agencies to urgently resolve all lingering issues and ensure that the second campuses of Bach Mai and Viet Duc Hospitals become operational by the end of 2025.

Chief engineers in Vietnam’s defense industry to earn up to 100x base salary.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has signed Prime Ministerial Directive No. 71, dated May 23, outlining urgent tasks to promote sustainable durian production and export.

Although the roadmap was set in 2018, salary reform under the job position-based payment scheme still needs more time to prepare the legal framework, administrative apparatus, and financial resources.

Project 500 participants hope for special recruitment as administrative reforms shrink available posts.

Vietnam’s copyright sector is rapidly expanding alongside its digital economy, with music copyright royalties alone projected to reach around 15 million USD by the end of 2025.

PM Pham Minh Chinh on May 20 sent a message to the 78th session of the World Health Assembly (WHA 78) in Geneva, at the invitation of World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

VietNamNet readers have argued that high academic titles don’t equal talent, and that local authorities must create mechanisms to support truly capable officers.

Some PhDs trained abroad have been working at state agencies under fixed-term labor contracts and are likely to be weeded out as a result of the ongoing administrative apparatus streamlining campaign, according to Da Nang Secretary Nguyen Van Quang.

The Government has issued Resolution No. 138/NQ-CP issuing its action plan to implement the Politburo’s Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW, dated May 4, 2025, that aims at fostering the development of the private economic sector.

While chairing an online national conference on boosting public investment as a key driver of economic growth in 2025 on May 20, PM Chinh stressed the need to revitalise traditional growth engines - investment, consumption, and exports.

The private sector has played a vital role in mobilising resources, spurring economic growth, boosting budget revenues, creating jobs, enhancing living standards, and fostering global integration.

Two key resolutions of the Politburo on legal reform and the private sector development were disseminated at a national conference on May 18, aimed at contributing to fast and sustainable national development in the new era.

In a major personnel reshuffle, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh appoints 11 key military officials to senior positions.