(LLCT) - Vietnam has to deal with many difficulties and challenges during its rapid and sustainable development. The difficulties are due to weaknesses inside the economy such as: limited investment capital for development, low quality of human resources, low level of science and technology, low growth quality, backward export structure, low added value, depending on the FDI sector, shortcomings of the socialist-oriented market economy, etc. Challenges and obstacles are objectively originated from outside factors such as: deepening integration into the world economy, the lagging behind other countries in the world, the 4th industrial revolution, and global climate change. 

(LLCT) - In Vietnamese society nowadays, women's contributions can be seen in almost every field. However, statistics imply that women are seemingly outweighted by men in terms of "social value". In order to achieve true genuine equality rights for women, there should have not only consistent viewpoints and policies but also synchronous and feasible solutions that attach to awareness enhancement, content and method renewal to promote women's potentials; to perfect mechanisms and policies of female workforce management and utilization in terms of eliminating gender inequality in domestic and social affairs as well as fields of life.

(LLCT) - Based on analyzing the positive impacts and challenges of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) on the state administration development, this article has some recommendations as follows: actively improve the institution of the administrative system, create a legal corridor for the development of industries and sectors; enhance the application of modern technological achievement to management activities of administrative agencies; actively build and strengthen civil servants' professional level and capacity, etc. Hence, the state administration will be gradually perfected to meet the demands of the FIR.

(LLCT) - In order to clarify the subjective, internal issues of the activities in social supervision and criticism, 600 questionnaires were used for the topic and 568 valid ones were collected in Hanoi, Quang Ninh, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho as the surveyed areas. The surveyed subject was journalists - the direct entity of press activities⁽¹⁾, and it was carried out in 2014. 

(LLCT) - Thanks to the implementation of the national renewal and international economic integration policy, Vietnam’s economy has transformed successfully from the central planning mechanism to the market economy mechanism— employment and labor relations are increasingly regulated by the market principles. Moreover, Vietnam’s participation in the International Labor Organization (ILO) in 1992 has promoted and prompted the application of international labor standards for the improvement and supplement of national labor standards and the gradual development of sustainable, harmonious labor relations. To date, Vietnam has approved 21 conventions of ILO⁽¹⁾. Many conditions in various labor standards have been applied into Vietnam’s domestic legislations of the new Labor Code. However, the current legal framework of labor relations in Vietnam is still inadequate and unsuitable with the reality of Vietnam.

(LLCT) - The phenomenon of “bribing for positions” is popular in a part of officers and Party members nowadays. It causes disapproval among the people, lowers the prestige of the Party and its members, and depletes the trust of the people in the Party, the Government and the socialist regime. This is one of the main causes of power corruption in public authorities, resulting in “self-evolution”, “self-transformation” within the Party and the State.

(LLCT) - Over the past 30 years of renovation, together with great achievements of historical significance, the theory on socialism in Vietnam has also taken important steps forward. In which, the identification of the leading distinctive characteristics of socialist model in Vietnam, which is “prosperous people, strong, democratic and civilized country” (the Political Platform, supplemented and amended in 2011). In reality and in research, the term of “prosperous people” has been mentioned by many people, but its connotation has not been fully conceived. It has not been understood that the clear identification and gradual realization of this objective must be seen as one of the greatest achievement of the rennovated thinking on socialism and the path towards socialism in Vietnam. To obtain this theoretical affirmation demands a whole process of exploration and much effort to realize the people’s rights to do businesses, thence to enrich and to be supported and encouraged to enrich themselves lawfully.

(LLCT) - ASEAN’s primary purpose is to create a peaceful environment in Southeast Asia and help member countries maintain independence, unity and territorial sovereignty, leading them toward prosperity and development. Therefore, settling territorial disputes to prevent conflict in the East Sea is ASEAN’s right and responsibility. 

(LLCT) - In the modern regional and global context, in order to protect the sovereignty and territorial integrity and settle the disputes in the East Sea, Vietnam has signed several bilateral agreements and conventions with related countries, such as the agreement about the historical water with Cambodia in 1982, the agreement of joint exploitation with Malaysia in 1992, the agreement of dividing water border with Thailand in 1997, the agreement of fixing the boundaries in the Gulf of Tonkin and fishing cooperation with China in 2000, and the agreement of fixing the continental shelf with Indonesia in 2003. 

(LLCT) - At present, the issue of “civil society” has drawn attention of many scholars, scientists, managers and policy-makers at global scale because it is an extremely complicated and sensitive socio-political issue. For Vietnam, hostile forces have been taking advantage of the civil society issue to accelerate “self-evolution”, “self-transformation” with the plot of changing the political regime in Vietnam.