Psychoanalytic criticism is one of the most prominent research directions in the world. From the point of view of psychoanalytic criticism, the memoirs Rung khop mua thay la clearly show Nguyen Vu Dien's obsessions with war, sexuality and spirituality through unique art forms. The writer recorded the fierceness of a bygone era, expressing his own feelings when participating in the volunteer army fighting at the K battlefield. By the method of analysis and comparison, this article sheds light on Nguyen Vu Dien’s obsessions in the memoirs Rung khop mua thay la. This study partly deciphers the author's ego, affirming the value of the memoirs Rung khop mua thay la in the anti-Pol Pot literature.

Hoai Khanh's poetry appeared on the Southern of Vietnam literary forum in the period 1954-1975. His poetry is an obsession about the human existence in life, which rooted in loneliness. It is the cry of human pain, loneliness in love, and loss in front of a broken, different world. Perhaps the poet's poetic soul has inherent similarities with the current of existential philosophy. Therefore, Hoai Khanh's poetry contains a sense of loneliness.

The national character is often considered a characteristic in the culture of each nation. That identity is not completely unchanging, but rather a product created by history. Over time, the concept of nation has changed, so the meaning of national character in literature and the arts has also changed. The risk of assimilation in the global era is reflected in the movements and changes of elements constituting each modern artistic whole such as genre, language, psychology, personality of the central character types, etc. However, working as a cultural filter and at the same time restructuring its own identity in the process of acculturation to foreign cultures, the national character helps literature and the art reflect the spiritual states of each nation and makes the art of mankind increasingly diversified and modern.

“Kim Vân Kiều ca” is one of the important “secondary works” of “Tale of Kiều”, appeared in Southern Vietnam in the late 19th century. This is considered a brief verse summary of the masterpiece “Tale of Kiều” by the great poet Nguyen Du. The author of this work may be a Confucian who is especially fond of “Tale of Kiều”, and is well-versed in dialects and the psychology of receiving Southern literature. “Kim Vân Kiều ca” has not only served as a bridge for the general public in Southern Vietnam to access the pinnacle literary masterpiece of the nation's discourse art, but also contributed to spreading the story of Kiều in this land. Through studying the secondary work “Kim Vân Kiều ca”, the article introduces readers to an interesting tendency to receive the “Tale of Kiều” in Southern Vietnam.

The novel Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe has made an impact on the world literature. One of the effects of this novel on posterity is to create a source of inspiration about the type of desert island story for junior writers. In the field of European-American literary studies, "Robinsonade" is a term used to refer to works similar in structure to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. In Vietnam, the term is still little known and not widely introduced. In this article, within our limits, we introduce Robinsonade as a theoretical and historical concept of literature.

Moacyr Jaime Scliar (1917 - 2011) was a well-known Latin American writer, whose works focus on the issues of Jewish identity and especially on Jews in Brazil. “The Centaur in the Garden” is his most famous novel. There are many ways to explore this unique work in depth, among which studying the symbolic system in the work from a psychoanalytic perspective is a suggestion on how to read Moacyr Scliar's novel in particular, the works of Magical Realism in general. The symbolic system in “The Centaur in the Garden”, if viewed from a psychoanalytic perspective, corresponds to the life experienced by young centaur Guedali, which is very similar to the sequence of three levels: id, ego and superego in the human mental structure. Through the struggle between instinct and reason along with the main character's journey to find the ego, the work has shown the desire to accept the shortcomings of the being in order to integrate into the community as well as into the man's undying desire for freedom.

Referring to the most perfect Japanese literature work, one must call the masterpiece “Genjimonogatari” (The Tale of Genji) composed by the poetess Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century, the work which revolves around the life of a great noble in the Heian era - Prince Genji. It wass referred to as a masterpiece because its content goes beyond the framework of the literary sense. It is the most complete “dictionary” in terms of Japanese culture, with all the cultural aspects of the Heian period from material to spiritual being fully conveyed through the author's charismatic pen. The most carefully painted aspect of Japanese culture is music, court music, the music for the upper classes in the royal palace at that time, to be precise. Well-known musical terms are also preserved in this great literary work, especially Gagaku (Elegant Music). Musical instruments, songs, and dances, which have a royal sound and are still performed and enjoyed today, are also present.

The present study has been undertaken to analyze the interrelationship between impulse buying tendency, browsing and impulse purchase in the Tan Son Nhat Airport environment. The data was collected from 166 respondents who had made a purchase at the airport using a structured questionnaire. Regression analysis, t-test and ANOVA was applied to test the proposed model. The results of the study indicate that although impulse buying tendency was found to have a negative association with impulse purchase, the people having high impulse buying tendency were likely to browse more. This suggests that browsing activity is common in the airport environment, but it may not necessarily lead to impulse purchase. The results provide several important implications for the airport retailers.

In recent years, building houses to lure swiftlets in order to harvest their nests has developed widely in the Mekong Delta. The value of the quantity of bird nests that is exploited from swiftlet houses has increasingly contributed to the growth of the agricultural sector. The purpose of this research is to determine the factors affecting the quantity of bird nests harvested in swiftlet houses. Using quantitative methods, the research directly collected data from 90 households that built houses to lure swiftlets. The study employed systematic probabilistic samples and completed collecting data in January of 2021. The Tobit model shows that three factors affecting the quantity of bird nests are the area of houses, the investment cost, and the number of harvesting years. The results of this research will be a useful source of reference about building houses to lure swiftlets.

On the basic of an overview on the scales of service quality, the study applied the Higher Education Performance (HEDPERF) scale to measure the quality of educational service and student satisfaction. Data for the study were collected from 292 students who had just graduated from Van Hien University. The data analysis methods used in the study included descriptive statistics, Cronbach's Alpha test, exploratory factor analysis (EFA), and correlation and linear regression analysis. The research results showed that fundemental factors affecting the level of student satisfaction with the quality of training consist of "academic" and “trust and empathy". Between them, "trust and empathy” is the factor that has more influence on the level of student satisfaction with the quality of training.

Since 2019, Van Hien University has been applying the business semester to four faculties, including the Faculty of Tourism with two majors: Hotel management, Tourism and Travel Service Management in order to bring benefits to students, faculty, the university and businesses. In the process of implementing the business semester, despite the encouraging results, there have been many shortcomings and difficulties regarding the quality of participating students; the organizing of the business semester; the rights and obligations of lecturers; the basic conditions; the facilities; the quality of services and supervisors at business and the policies on supporting; rewarding and evaluating internship students. Using the stakeholder survey data, applying analytical methods, and referring to published vocational training documents and the authors’ practical experiences, the article focuses on analyzing the current status of the business semester implementation at the Faculty of Tourism - Van Hien University and proposing solutions to the existing problems in order to improve the effectiveness of the business semester program in the coming years.