News headlines 4 december 2017

The goal of the Sinh Con, Sinh Cha programme is to share knowledge, experience and skills in raising children in the first years of life. — Photo courtesy of Sinh Con, Sinh Cha HÀ NỘI — A community education programme has achieved remarkable results in improving parenting knowledge, skills and behaviours during an 18 month pilot in Việt Nam. An independent report assessing results of the programme shows clear positive impacts on parents’ change in child-rearing and upbringing across all three content pillars of Child Health, Child Behaviours and Child Intelligence, with 85 per cent of parents surveyed agreeing that the programme helped improve their parenting knowledge and skills. Up to 97 per cent of the parents have changed their parenting approaches as suggested by the programme and made positive changes to their perceptions and behaviours: parents spend more time with their children; reduce parenting anger and the use of negative practices in dealing with various parenting … [Read more...] about Community programme improves parenting knowledge and skills

Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Ky speaks at the event. (Photo: VNA) Quang Ninh (VNA) – Authorities of the north-eastern province of Quang Ninh held a conference on May 25 on the implementation of tasks and solutions to improve the local business climate and competitiveness. It was also to analysed Quang Ninh’s provincial competitiveness index (PCI) in 2021 and discussed orientations and solutions to sustain good results this year. According to the PCI 2021 report released by the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI), the province gained the highest score of 70.02 percent. This is the fifth year in a row Quang Ninh has topped the charts, and the ninth year it has been in the top five. Addressing the event, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Ky said Quang Ninh has viewed raising its competitiveness as an important political task, and urged local authorities to step up the settlement of administrative procedures in the … [Read more...] about Conference looks to improve Quang Ninh PCI rankings

Kim Højlund Christensen, Danish Ambassador to Vietnam With the return of tourism and trade activities, can you see any movement from business and investment promotion delegations that are going to visit Vietnam? The Vietnamese government’s recent decision to lift entry restrictions and especially to resume the visa-exemption travel programme for countries, including Denmark, is great news and positively welcomed by the Danish business community. Many Danish companies are already planning their visits to Vietnam this month and early next month to meet with their local business partners in person. At present, there are over 130 Danish companies represented in Vietnam. Therefore, there will be a large number of business visitors and delegations from headquarters in Denmark or other locations in the region coming here in the near future to visit their production facilities or to find new investment opportunities. Besides that, we also expect to have trade delegations visit our … [Read more...] about Danish investors pinpointing rising potential of Vietnam’s green energy