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PANO - Vietnam’s military-run telecom group Viettel is organizing a competition, entitled “Honoring Viettel’s Best Sales and Customer Services Groups 2015”, as a playground for its staff to learn  experiences from each other within customer services. At the semi-final round in late September, competitors will have to compete in three areas of knowledge, understanding teammates and behavior. Competitors joining the event Most recently, the semifinal of region 1 took place at the Au Co Theatre in Hanoi, with the participation of 70 members of 14 teams from three units of Viettel Telecom Corporation, Viettel Commercial and Ex-Im Company and Viettel Post Joint Stock Corporation. The top five teams selected from different regions will compete in the final round.  After more than 10 years of operation in the telecoms market, Viettel has always operated with the motto “each customer as a distinct individual”. It has always focused on … [Read more...] about Viettel’s competition to promote good customer service

By Nguyễn Bình When Lương Huệ Trinh started experimenting with electro-acoustic instruments in her final year at the Việt Nam Academy of Music (VNAM), she didn't know much about them, just that she was falling in love with a new way of making music. Trinh was the first Vietnamese musician to study multimedia composition at Hamburg University of Music and Theatre from 2015 to 2018.     STUDIOUS: Lương Huệ Trinh studied an MA in multimedia composition at Hamburg University of Music and Theatre from 2015 to 2018. Photo Nguyễn Lê Việt Anh Her most recent multimedia concert featuring a combination of music and video entitled Lettres De Hanoi (Letters from Hà Nội) was performed at the European Music Festival on November 30. The concert was performed by Vietnamese and French musicians featuring pieces composed by Trinh and Jean-David Caillouet based on a book by author Jean Tardieu. … [Read more...] about Emerging musician goes her own way

  Illustration by Trịnh Lập   By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà   The dreams of millions of Vietnamese people came true on Tuesday night. They had been dreaming for 30 years, or was it 60 as some said? Now it doesn’t matter, as the dreams are reality. The Việt Nam men’s U22 football team won a gold medal at the 30th Southeast Asian Games in the Philippines by defeating Indonesia 3-0 in the final. A popular saying goes ‘phúc bất trùng lai’, which means happiness does not repeat itself, but the men’s victory came just days after the women’s team won their own gold medal at the Games. Double happiness, truly, because despite the fact the women’s football team had won for the sixth time, it was the men’s first triumph. “Though this is the sixth time,” said women’s coach Mai Đức Chung, “I still feel very touched.” Sheer joy and happiness brightened … [Read more...] about Let the Vietnamese spirit soar

    Sĩ Đức Quang, 38, from the Hà Nội National University of Education, was the youngest person to become a professor in Viet Nam this year. The maths professor talks with Hà Nguyễn about his upbringing and his love for maths. Inner Sanctum: You were a talented literature student, so how did you end up researching maths? I have been interested in mathematics since I started reading the Journal of Mathematics and Youth in 1997. The mathematical stories and problems attracted me by their beauty, creativity and challenging nature. When I was a student, after learning advanced mathematics, I saw this subject is not only beautiful but also contains philosophy. One of the most important reasons for my interest in mathematics is that this subject is the basis for almost all other natural scientific subjects. I see researching mathematics as really meaningful work. Inner Sanctum: How did you go about mastering mathematics? When I was a … [Read more...] about Professor Sĩ Đức Quang proves if you’re old enough, you’re good enough

  Deborah Greenfield, Deputy Director-General for Policy at the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Deborah Greenfield, Deputy Director-General for Policy at the International Labour Organisation, spoke to Viet Nam News reporter Thu Vân about the Vietnamese Government's efforts to change its labour laws in line with requirements on labour rights in free trade agreements it has recently ratified, like the CPTPP and the EVFTA, as well as the challenges ahead in the world of work.  Việt Nam has recently ratified the CPTPP and signed the EVFTA, and these two trade agreements include provisions on labour rights and require the country to make certain changes to its labour laws. Việt Nam has made changes to its labour code, ratified the ILO Convention 98 and plans to ratify Convention 87 on the freedom of association by 2023. How do you evaluate such efforts by the … [Read more...] about Việt Nam making strides in workers’ rights