(LLCT) - In 2018, the world and Vietnam will celebrate 70-year anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948-2018)⁽¹⁾. In the context of implementation of the 2013 Constitution and realization of the 12th National Congress’s resolutions in social life, the article analyses the execution of Judicial Reform Strategy and then brings forward solutions to continue implementing the Judicial Reform Strategy until 2020 with the aim of protecting justice and human rights in Vietnam nowadays.

(LLCT) - The Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) has made comprehensive, extensive, and fast impacts on all areas of the social life, including training and education. Many issues have been raised to the training and fostering of cadres such as renewal of the institution governance, renovation of training and fostering methods and enhancement of lecturers’ competence. In this reality, the article suggests some solutions to improve the quality of cadre training, including renewal of mechanisms and policies, renewal of administration; enhancing the quality of lectures; renewal of training work; promotion of scientific research and practical review.

(LLCT) - The Northwest consists of 12 mountainous and midland provinces in the North and the western districts of Nghe An and Thanh Hoa, accounting for one third of the area of Vietnam. These provinces have a population of nearly 11 million, with 23 ethnic minority groups, representing 63% of the regional total population. This area is of strategic importance to the socio-economic development, security and national defense of Vietnam.

(LLCT) - The 1986 Spring Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising marked a turning point for our people’s anti-U.S. resistance war for national salvation, shaking the US’s will of aggression and forcing them to cease bombing the North and to negotiate to end the war of aggression in Vietnam. 50 years have passed, the 1968 Spring Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising has forever been engraved in the history of the nation, leaving us a number of valuable lessons.

(LLCT) - The article presents the characteristics and general structure of Vietnamese entrepreneurs, analyses their positive contributions to and limitations in social development and management of social development of Vietnam in the renewal process. The article also suggests some solutions to promote the role of entrepreneurs in social development and management of social development in Vietnam nowadays. 

(LLCT) - The world history shows that big countries and their interactions control and decide the development tendency of the world politics and shaping of the international order. For small countries, their relations with big countries and are always considered as important issues. Nowadays, the small country-big country relationship has become different in nature, condition and defined context. The article focuses on analysing: 1) criteria of identifying a big country in the current world; 2) the nature of the small country-big country relationship; 3) Vietnam’s experiences in behaving towards big countries.

(LLCT) - On the 12^th of April 2016, the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam (UNDP), the Centre for Official Fostering and Scientific Research (under the Fatherland Front of Vietnam), and the Centre for Community Support and Development Studies, launched Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2015 in Hanoi. In attendance of the ceremony were Prof. Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, H.E. Ms. Beatrice Maser Mallor, Ambassador of Switzerland to Vietnam, and Ms. Pratibha Mehta, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Vietnam.

A nation's power includes not only its hard power (geographical - population, economic, military factors) but also its soft power (political institution, ideology and national strategies (state leaders), and the will of the people in implementing strategies, social values, international relations). Therefore, the study of a country’s soft power should be taken under overall consideration of its comprehensive power.