Society In Vietnam Research Articles

Social Security Perception and Corruption Perception in Vietnam

Abstract: The perception of social security and corruption significantly impacts governance and societal development, particularly in transitional economies like Vietnam. This study explores the intricate relationship between these perceptions and demographic factors within Vietnamese society. Using survey data from the World Values Survey Association (WVSA), key variables such as age, education level, income, and attitudes toward gender roles were analyzed to understand their influence on security and corruption perceptions. Through statistical methods including chi-square independence tests and regression analysis, this study investigates how different demographic characteristics relate to these perceptions. The data reveals a significant correlation between perceptions of security and corruption, with certain demographic groups, such as highly educated individuals, showing heightened concerns about both. The findings suggest that improving education and addressing income inequality could reduce corruption perceptions while enhancing security. These insights provide valuable directions for policymakers aiming to foster a safer and more transparent society in Vietnam.

<span><strong>Investigating</strong><strong> Vietnamese EFL high school teachers’ attitudes toward teaching moral values </strong></span>

Families, schools, and society in Vietnam are paying more attention to moral education. The current national general education program, in particular, strives to promote students’ knowledge, skills, and moral qualities in order to better prepare them for globalization in the twenty-first century. It also mandates all educators, teachers integrate moral values into the curricula and lessons. This study aims to investigate English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers’ attitudes towards teaching moral values in various high schools. Twenty-one Vietnamese EFL high school teachers from a province in the Mekong Delta participated in the study. Data were collected from a Google-Form survey comprising 14 closed and open-ended questions based on van Aalderen-Smeets et al.’s (2012) and Ualesi and Ward’s (2018) multi-dimensional framework. The findings showed the participants’ positive attitudes toward teaching moral values, and there was almost no significant difference in the attitudes of teachers regarding gender, level of education, and teaching contexts. However, the findings revealed that approximately 81 % of the respondents encountered difficulties when infusing moral values into EFL teaching, primarily relating to teachers’ perceptions and contextual factors. Based on the findings, some conclusions and pedagogical recommendations have been made.

Characteristics of coronary arterial lesions in elderly patients with hypertension

Background: Aging is a physiological progress in everyone’s life, combined with a decrease in many functions and comorbidities. Coronary heart disease is a common condition because of cumulative age and risk factors: hypertension, diabetes, dyslipidemia... Hypertension is also a new problem, the main and independent coronary disease risk factor. Large trials that describe a characteristic of coronary lesions by conventional coronary angiography often collect fewer very older patients. Objectives: 1. To dDescribe the clinical and subclinical coronary lesions characteristic of older patients with hypertension who are indicated conventional coronary angiography. 2. Finding an association between the characteristics of coronary lesions and cardiovascular risk factors in elderly patients with primary hypertension (Vietnam Society of Hypertension guidelines 2022). Subjects and method: 159 patients older than 60 who have primary hypertension combined with acute coronary syndrome or chronic coronary syndrome are indicated for conventional coronary angiography at Hue Central Hospital from 05/2021 to 05/2022. They are divided into 2 groups: elderly (60 - 79 years old) and very elderly (≥ 80 years old) with cross-sectional method. Results: Different hypertension grades, pulse pressure, mean blood pressure and cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes with control HbA1C well, chronic kidney disease, dyslipidemia, and previous coronary diseases are not significant. Contrast this, LDL-C, TG/HDL-C ratio, LDL-C/HDL-C ratio, obesity, arrhythmia, and dilating cardiac chamber on echocardiography is significantly different between 2 groups. Severe coronary stenosis LAD>RCA>LCx>LM. One or two severe coronary diseases is higher in very elderly patient than elderly patient, but three or non-severe coronary diseases is higher in elderly patient. The type of lesion that ACC/AHA classifies is almost type B and type C at three vessels but the only difference at RCA is significant. Severe coronary stenosis is higher in very elderly patients than elderly patients and is significantly different in grade 2 hypertension, systolic blood pressure ≥ 140 mmHg, diastolic blood pressure ≥ 90 mmHg, pulse pressure ≥ 50 mmHg. Complexity coronary lesion or type C ACC/AHA significantly correlates with systolic blood pressure and HbA1C at medium level. SYNTAX II score correlates positively with systolic blood pressure, pulse pressure, age, and LDL-C/HDL-C ratio and significantly correlates with negative glomerular filtration. Severe tortuosity coronary disease significantly correlates with positive diastolic and mean blood pressure. Chronic total occlusion coronary diseases significantly correlate at a medium level with the TG/HDL-C ratio. Conclusions: Coronary lesions of elderly patients are more complex and have a higher ratio, especially uncontrol cardiovascular risk factors such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, and diabetes. Key words: characteristic of coronary lesions, elderly, conventional coronary angiography, elderly and hypertension.

Sleep Disorders in Patients with Severe COVID-19 Treated in the Intensive Care Unit: A Real-Life Descriptive Study in Vietnam.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with sleep disorders may be at greater risk for respiratory exacerbation or death compared to those without. After being infected with COVID-19, patients have many symptoms related to sleep disorders, especially those with severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. This study aimed to evaluate sleep disturbances in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection who were treated in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). This cross-sectional study used the questionnaire provided by the Vietnam Sleep Disorder Study (ViSDiS) research, elaborated by the Vietnam Society of Sleep Medicine (VSSM). Seventy-seven COVID-19 patients were included. There was a significant difference in sleep status before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection among participants. Up to 83% of them reported experiencing insomnia after illness, 60% reported having frequent nightmares, and more than half of participants reported nocturia (p < 0.0001). More than 81.8% of patients with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection were unsatisfied with their sleep quality during hospitalization After SARS-CoV-2 infection, only 2.6% of participants felt they had good quality sleep (p < 0.0001). The majority of patients suffered from fatigue after SARS-CoV-2 infection, including a lack of energy, feeling heaviness in their limbs, aggravation of pre-existing sleep disorders, idleness, constant fatigue throughout the day, and difficulty concentrating. Sleep problems are highly prevalence among hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 in the ICU. Healthcare providers should pay attention to sleep problems and their associated symptoms to initiate appropriate treatment to improve severe COVID-19 patients' health status and minimize the risk of death.

Personal Income Tax Levied on Real Estate Business in Vietnam: Reality and Some Recommendation

Objective: The provisions of Personal income tax (PIT) on real estate are still inadequate and incompatible with the practice of economic and social development in Vietnam. Due to that fact, this scientific article researches the status quo of provisions of PIT levied on real estate to come up with some recommendations to perfect the law. Theoretical framework: Recent literature points out that PIT on real estate plays very important role in the development of Vietnam's economy, and society. However, in the current stage of development, from the influence and impact of international integration, in reality, the provisions of PIT on real estate are still inadequate. In there, limits and problems in regulations about PIT on real estate have caused many difficulties when applied. On the other hand, in the context of judicial reform in Vietnam, the issue of complete law system has always been paid special attention by the Party and Vietnam State. Method: The authors have used a combination of traditional research methods of the social sciences and legal sciences such as legal analysis method, the legal efficiency evaluation method, and comparative legal method to achieve the objectives of the research. Results: Research results have determined that the provisions of PIT on real estate are still inadequate, and affect the state budget, and the economy, society in Vietnam. Conclusion: PIT on real estate is an important source of revenue for the state budget. At the same time, this is a tax that has great impact and influence on economic and social development and taxpayers. However, current regulations on PIT on real estate still have some shortcomings, limitations, and are not consistent with the practical situation of real estate transfer transactions in Vietnam. Research implications: The results of the research contribute to proposing a number of solutions to improve the law on PIT on real estate in Vietnam. Originality/value: The research of the PIT on real estate become more and more urgent and very important in Vietnam.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND GLOBAL POLITICS: GERMANY’S CULTURAL DIPLOMACY: A POLITICAL-LOGICAL CASE STUDY OF FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG IN VIETNAM

The trend of cultural diplomacy extends beyond the jurisdiction of the state and encompasses the promotion of "national culture" and interactive international cultural exchange, particularly the functions of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) financed by the government, the paper selects the case study of Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) as a non-government organization where the German government finances FES to accomplish some missions of the foreign policies of Germany to have global influence in Vietnam and other countries. The paper argues that the cultural diplomacy of FES has not fully complied with their missions and values of the German government as follows. First, there is the political value conflict between German democratic system where the German political values of civil society, human rights and multi-party system are considered as the threats to the current political system of Vietnam. Second, VCP considers cultural diplomacy as Soviet-style propaganda, where they tend to use the funding of FES as the propaganda tool to disseminate their values and their success, to consolidate the power of Vietnam Communist Party(VCP). Third, as the Western and the Sinic culture conflict emerged, when China uses the sharp power to implicitly counter against the cultural diplomacy of FES (NED, 2017). Thus, FES is not allowed directly to cooperate with civil society in Vietnam. The paper proposes that FES needs to restructure its strategies to partner with civil society sector, rather than only VCP and its partners to strengthen German soft and smart power in Vietnam.The paper has also, relying on a cognitive-logical model, argued that cultural diplomacy is a function that attempts to transform Germany’s (and Vietnam’s) values into Vietnam’s (and German’s) values in order to construct a collaborative mutual understanding of the world for them. The cultural diplomacy function is a developer of the phenomena of ‘meaning’ and ‘development’ for both Germany and Vietnam in the context of their interactions and communications.

Особенности вьетнамской конфуцианской этики

Confucian ethics, being adopted in Vietnam, lost its originality and was adapted and supplemented in accordance with the historical practice of the people in order to meet their needs and correspond to changes in the feudal society of Vietnam. In other words, Confucian ethics was “Vietnamized”. The article analyzes the process of implementing and developing Confucian ethics in Vietnam and defines its specifics. According to the author, the Confucian ethical principles are reviewed from the view point of the national interests of Vietnam.

Theory of Thomas Aquinas on human nature and its meaning in social life today

International integration is deepening, so people develop in all aspects. In society, communities with individuals have relationships in humans' material and spiritual life. When society grows, more people's knowledge of the world needs to learn so that people can understand themselves and act for the development of society. The article studies the thought of Thomas Aquinas to clarify human nature in social life. The paper uses analytical, synthesis, and argumentative methods to explain human nature with its behaviors and perceptions in social life; Aquinas argued that it is human nature to do the right thing to achieve happiness. However, society is more progressive and liberals, but people always realize their lives have many injustices and difficulties. People want their lives to be happy and good but feel depressed. In this article, in an excellent society, people live according to the law and adjust their behavior according to the regulations of society; each person in the society is also better, from which the society is also humane and reasonable that the basis for building a better society in Vietnam.

“I choose fish”: Understanding informal civil society in Vietnam through environmental grievances and actions

This paper focuses on informal civil society in an authoritarian context, particularly the unprecedented nation-wide protests and civic action in Vietnam, triggered by the industrial pollution and the resulting mass fish death on the central coast in 2016. We explore civil society actors' motivations and tactics to take action under political restrictions. Data was collected from semi-structured interviews with civil society actors. The findings illustrate how informal civil society in Vietnam is built on independent or partly NGO-affiliated individuals working together to promote non-violent change, although the process of doing so might involve challenging the government apparatus. The activists were motivated to take action by the dead fish’ symbolism of endangered livelihood, environmental protection, and to demand transparency from the government. Critical factors further contributing to the mobilisation of citizens included the combination of food symbolism and anti-China nationalism, the tactical use of Facebook by urban activists, and religious leadership in the rural areas. The protests resulting from the coastal pollution can be seen as boundary-spanning events through which Vietnamese civil society actors ‘invent’ spaces of (political) participation amidst limited ‘invited’ space.

Elderly People’s Adaptation to the Evolving Digital Society: A Case Study in Vietnam

The rapid and breakthrough development of digital technology in the digital era creates excellent opportunities for Vietnam’s socioeconomic development, profoundly changing all activities and people’s lifestyles. However, due to old age characteristics, older adults become a vulnerable population group and face many difficulties when digital transformation occurs widely in all aspects of life. Research issues raised by the research team, such as sociodemographic characteristics, active aging, the activeness and attitudes of the elderly in Vietnam toward the digital environment, the importance of relevant government policies, and necessary attention from telecommunications and online service providers, are considered the novelties of this study. Among these, sociodemographics were found to be the most important factor influencing the digital adaptation of older people, as they dominate the age-related problems faced by older people. These suggestions were confirmed by evaluating the results of a sociological survey conducted by the research group At Hanoi University of Science and Technology on the influence of the technological environment on older adults’ lives using qualitative research methods. The purpose of the study was to determine the factors influencing the digital adaptability of Vietnamese elderly people in order to propose policy implications to encourage the elderly to adapt to the digital environment in the emerging digital society in Vietnam.

Corporate social responsibility disclosure and firm performance: Evidence from Vietnam

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is quite a new concept to business and society in Vietnam. Information on CSR reflects a firm’s commitment to ethical behavior in its activities and reputation. However, it is questioned whether the information disclosure has any relationship with firm performance. Employing panel regression of about 200 listed firms on the Vietnam Stock Exchange and space-based measurement of CSR disclosure, the study confirms a positive impact of CSR disclosure on firm performance. Firms use CSR disclosures to indirectly improve their performance. Firms that disclose CSR with greater degree of information experience higher marginal profitability. This finding supports stakeholder theory, legitimacy theory, and signaling theory in using CSR disclosure as a tool to improve firms’ reputation and transparency, maintain long-term operation, and hence improve financial performance. During the COVID-19 pandemic, firms that engage more in CSR will suffer less from the pandemic than firms that do not. Thus, the study implies a promising CSR picture for corporations in Vietnam. Investors, policy makers and any related authorities can utilize these findings to get more insight into the business through CSR disclosures.

Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam

Creative Hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam

Education policy in the context of Vietnam's international integration

Education plays an important role in the development of the country. Emphasizing this importance, the Communist Party of Vietnam has emphasized the "top national policy" position of education, which is concretized by the policies and laws of the state. In the context of Vietnam's international integration, education is considered a fundamental and important resource for national construction and development. However, there are many limitations in the implementation of the policy. This study focuses on analyzing the current situation of education policy, and the problems posed to education, thereby proposing solutions to improve education policy, meeting the needs of economic development - of Vietnam society in the future.

Some Problems of The Learning Society in Vietnam in The Current Period

Learning is a remarkably complex process that is influenced by a wide variety of factors. As most parents are probably very much aware, observation can play a critical role in determining how and what children learn. As the saying goes, kids are very much like sponges, soaking up the experiences they have each and every day. Learning is an important process in human life. It is the process of accumulating knowledge, absorbing human knowledge to create one’s own education. Learning is also the practice of life skills such as communication, behavior, etc. Learning contributes to the growth of each person. In Vietnam, this Directive 11 of the Politburo has been issued, actively performing the tasks assigned by the Government in Decision 281/QD-TTg dated February 20, 2014 of the Prime Minister on the project “Promote the movement of lifelong learning in families, clans and communities until 2020”. The article focuses on clarifying the issue of social learning in Vietnam in the current period

VẬN DỤNG MÔ HÌNH SÁCH GIÁO KHOA NHẬT BẢN VÀO BIÊN SOẠN SÁCH GIÁO KHOA MÔN TỰ NHIÊN VÀ XÃ HỘI Ở VIỆT NAM

This article is a follow-up study in a series of articles on applying the Japanese textbook model. Previous studies have only mentioned theoretically on the textbook model of subject equivalent to our country's Nature and Society subject in Japanese elementary schools. In this article, we have creatively applied the Japanese textbook model to the practice of compiling textbooks on Nature and Society in Vietnam. The article mentions how to structure the book, how to build a lesson, how to design activities in the direction of enhancing students' experience and application in real life, and an integrated perspective in compiling textbook of Nature and Society subject.

Civil society action: Another formation of civil society in Vietnam (The case studies of environmental protection in Dong Nai River Basin, Vietnam)

Most research on civil society in Vietnam tends to equate civil society with registered civil society organizations. This seems to provide an inadequate understanding of the civil society in Vietnam. To fill this gap, this research adopts the action-based approach that underlines civil society action-another formation of civil society in Vietnam. This approach is examined via the contrast cases between a foreign-invested company and a state-owned enterprise that were a better understanding about the formation and contribution of civil society action on Vietnam’s environmental issue. My findings confirmed that civil society in Vietnam is not only in the form of organizations but also the action via utilizing the chain of activities based on the voluntariness in public space toward common interest and it exists in the Vietnamese color. At the end of this article, I will discuss the implications of this study for the effective contributions of civil society in Vietnam.

Human Education And Educational Issues For Society And Economy - Case In Emerging Markets Including Vietnam

Human education in Vietnam for society and economy has been paid much attention in recent years. By using historical analysis, combined with dialectical materialism method, this study aims to identify and analyze what factors affect human education in Vietnam society, for socio-economic development. This paper uses a combination of qualitative analysis, historical and dialectical materialism methods to analyze and give out recommendations. Therefore, there are many factors that affect Vietnam human education including but not limited to: Western culture and education, Asian or Easter culture, Buddhism, Confucianism, Ho Chi Minh ideology, etc. We will explore their values in educating people in Vietnam society in the globalization and integration era. Last but not least, we will suggest some opinions on maintaing good traditional values and perspectives on educational issues for socio-economic development in an emerging market like Vietnam. Our recommendations can be applied in other emerging markets if suitable.

Factors Affecting the Quality of University Lecturers - A Research Conducted Within the Context of Vietnam Society

There are many factors affecting the quality of faculty that numerous researchers mentioned, analyzed and pointed out the different degrees of influence. The paper studies external factors affecting the quality of faculty such as Political regime, Management mechanism and Salary regime. These three factors have been existing in each country and make a different impact on the quality of faculty creating the unique characteristics of each country. The author builds a theoretical framework for research on the above-mentioned three ones and conduct a direct survey of 400 lecturers from 10 universities in Hanoi - the capital city of Vietnam. The survey is selectively done, in which its surveyed subjects are lecturers with doctorate or higher and their working time from 5 years or more. Through secondary data collected from published documents combined with those gained from direct investigations and surveys, the author contributes to clarifying the impact of the above-mentioned factors on the quality of Vietnamese faculty. From that result, he proposes a number of workable solutions on the policies with the hope of providing leaders and managers with scientific arguments so that they have more sound bases to appropriately adjust their policies to satisfy the essential needs of lecturers, which helps them have more opportunities to create and maximize their capacity. That also contributes to completing the policies on developing a team of high-quality Vietnamese faculty meeting the requirements of higher education in the modern and integrated social context.

Some points about Ho Quy Ly’s socio-economic reform policies

Throughout the history of Vietnam, 10 socio-economic reformations have occurred. The size, level, nature and outcome of those reforms varied, but they all shared the same trait showing progress and revolution, especially ideology. Many leaders of socio-economic revolutions were talented people in the society who saw the cause leading to crises and the way to resolve them. They could be emperors, Confucian intellectuals, officials, etc. The reformation of Ho Quy Ly from the late 14th to the early 15th centuries is among them. It is a comprehensive and breakthrough reformation. Throughout 40 years, with his political position, Ho Quy Ly made some policies to change crisis status in terms of socio-economy in the late 14th century, especially economy. Over 600 years, many studies about Ho Quy Ly and his reform gave out many different opinions. In the feudal period, the Ho Dynasty and its reform received many negative reviews from historians who were affected by Confucianism. However, after 1954, this topic came back on research forums of modern historians in Vietnam. Those researches help researches about Ho Quy Ly's role in history become more positive than periods before. This paper will analyze the background of Vietnam society in the half-end of the 14th century to clarify reasons leading to Ho Quy Ly's changes. From the results, we can objectively judge the thoughts of the reform by Ho Quy Ly when facing the requests of his living period.

Current situation of Bitcoin management and use: perspectives from the world and recommendations for vietnam

The research aimed to evaluate suitability of Bitcoin and its platform in emerging markets such as Vietnam. We used qualitative analysis combined with data collection method published, statistics, analysis, synthesis, comparison, to generate qualitative comments and discussion; evaluate results, the article analyzed and evaluated the impacts of Bitcoin and virtual currency on society of Vietnam, both positive and negative sides. It was found that virtual currency not accepted in Vietnam as means of payment yet, while many nations in the world accept it. We need to complete the legal framework for virtual currencies in general, Bitcoin in particular. The State should continue to have policies to improve information technology infrastructure, build and improve the capacity of the contingent of financial experts, encryption, and security experts and give warning risks in virtual currency transactions. The scientific value of paper is using experiences from previous studies in other countries to generate recommendations for conditions of Bitcoin development in merging markets. Last but not least, the research was limited to the case of Vietnam; hence, we can expand research to other Asian countries or other emerging markets.