The study was conducted to measure factors affecting the business performance of companies listed Vietnam’s stock markets. The data was collected from 240 financial statements of 20 listed companies in the field of information technology from 2019 through 2020. Results from the statistical analysis showed that companies’ revenues, management costs, and profits have steadily increased over the years, but the rate of increase in profits was higher than the cost, and there were significant differences in companies’ revenues, management costs, and profits based on the gender of the leader. The results of the panel data model using Fixed Effects Model (FEM), Random Effects Model (REM) and overcoming the disease with Generalized Least Squares (GLS) showed that the proportion of women on the board, the concurrent holding of director position, financial leverage, the size of the company by assets and the number of years of operation of the company significantly affected the business performance of companies.

This study aims to identify some factors of bank loans to individual customers at Agribank Co Do District Branch - Can Tho II. The data were collected from 204 individual customers, who have outstanding bank balances until September 2020. A Tobit regression model was explored to estimate the factor influencing the bank loans of personal customers at Agribank Co Do District Branch - Can Tho II. Study results showed that the customer’s income, business sector/ occupation, collateral, loan’s purpose, the terms of loans, and credit officer, who directly audited the customer’s loan were the factors that affected the total loan amount of individual customers at Agribank Co Do District Branch - Can Tho II (P < 0,1). Based on the results of this study, several alternatives to expand the individual credit in general, and the individual credit for the agricultural sector in particular, at Agribank Co Do District Branch - Can Tho II have been discussed. These were expected to enhance rural development and reduce poverty in Co Do district, Can Tho city.

After ten years of implementation, the New Rural Program has positively impacted people's lives and perceptions, especially the ethnic minorities. This study aimed to analyze factors affecting the perception of the S’tieng ethnic minority about this program. The data were collected through direct interviews with 153 S’tieng ethnic households in Hung Phuoc commune, Bu Dop district, Binh Phuoc province. A multinomial Logit regression model with an MLE estimating method was used to analyze the data. The result shows that the probability of a household knowing well is 64% (Y2/Y0) and a household knowing but not well is 26% (Y1/Y0). S’tieng ethnic households are pretty satisfied with the criteria implemented in the area and factors affecting the household perception of the New Rural Program.

This article aims to access the appropriateness of paternalistic leadership in the Vietnamese cultural context. The author employed three dimensions in Hofstede’s cultural model including power distance, collectivism, and long-term orientation. The results show that these factors are interlaced with each other by their links to Confucian values, establishing a strong ground for paternalistic leadership. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are also discussed.

Bac Lieu has great potential for rural tourism development with abundant resources. However, to develop tourism in a sustainable way, the locality needs to focus on creating tourist satisfaction. This study aimed to assess the tourists’ satisfaction of rural tourism in Bac Lieu province through a direct survey of 250 tourists using a questionnaire with eight criteria. In which, the attractiveness of rural tourism resources is correlated with tourists’ satisfaction and loyalty. Thereby, the study also offers solutions to improve tourists' satisfaction with rural tourism in Bac Lieu province.

With only 17 syllables, Haiku poetry has risen in popularity as the world’s shortest form of poetry. As a rare and popular art form, Haiku poetry has spread over the globe, producing a number of well-known poets whose works have been well-known throughout the world since ancient times. Near the end of the Edo period, Kobayashi Issa made his debut, producing Haiku poetry in his own distinctive and unique style. Issa developed a distinct yet highly rustic Haiku form that was relevant to people’s lives at the time while also transcending Haiku’s language limitations. As a result, many people are familiar with and enjoy Issa’s Haiku. In the contemporary time, along with the current literary development trend, Issa’s Haiku reawakened the literary value of Issa, who popularized Haiku in the public

With the approach to the myth theory of Roland Barthes and the theory of discourse by Michel Foucault, we establish Hwang Sok-yong’s sense of demystification in the novel “Shadow of Arms” through a number of archetypes, patterns, and actual historical events. The fragmentation of central and important myths in the spiritual life of Koreans aims to build a new myth, associated with the fragmentation situation and cultural sensibilities of Koreans, helping the reader to look directly at the nature of the past, forming the right thoughts and feelings for the war, the country, and the people of Vietnam

“New Poetry Movement 1932 - 1945” emerged and ended in a short time, but the achievements left were great; later on, people no longer called it “the movement” but only called it New Poetry with recognition and honor. One of the reasons for bringing lasting resonance and value to New Poetry is the continuous movement of genres in which the poetic language of automatic writing is the final milestone in its lats period (1941 - 1945). The article delves into researching and contributing to clarify the influence of Western poetry on automatic writing style as well as the conceptions and works of poetry from this modernization.

Motifs of multiple births appear pretty many in Vietnamese folklore, and they have differences, and changes in genres. In mythology, this motif presents the formations of “mankind”, “everybody” - people of the same clan, and country. In legends, this motif has less of the number of people/ number of bearing - normally, twin. Characters of multiple births are symbols of people - they always go with, and agree with national heroes. In these two genres, folk use unreal elements, and miracles when they describe multiple births children. In fairy tales, folk doesn’t describe miracles in bearing, but decrease the art of the unreal to concentrate to describe characters’ fates. Therefore, motifs of multiple births have movement progresses, changes to reflect bearing shown in number, shown in miracle elements.

The short stories of the Mekong Delta in the first ten years of the 21st century have the unique cultural impression with the characteristics of the inhabitants of the river region. The literature of each region shows the special cultural impression. All cultural aspects are exploited to highlight the material and spiritual life of people. Writers have incorporated cultural aspects into all aspects of their characters’ lives. The material life and spiritual life of people here are exploited in depth from a cultural perspective. The value of cultural aspects exists in all aspects of life. Understanding the impression of cultural activities in the short stories of the Mekong Delta in this period, the article references aspects from a geocultural perspective to highlight the impression of spiritual culture, culture of arts and cultural activities in the life of the inhabitants of the delta.

Le Hoang Muu is a typical writer in Southern Vietnamese literature at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. He made great contributions to the renewal and modernization of the modern Vietnamese novel genre. The article focuses on studying the novel “Ha Huong Phong Nguyet” by Le Hoang Muu from the view of sexual discourse. Using the theory of sexual discourse to discover the value of the work, the article mainly exploits three expressions: (1) Sex - natural instinct and obsession with alienating people, (2) Sex as a means of relieving loneliness, (3) Language and physical behavior.

According to the growing socio-economic situation, the number of students studying Chinese is more and more increasing, although Chinese is one of the languages ranked as the most difficult to learn. The study aimed to analyze the effects of movies on the students’ learning Chinese through a survey of 210 students majoring in Chinese at Nguyen Tat Thanh University. The results show that learning Chinese through movies helps students effectively acquire knowledge and improve their language ability. Specifically, students understand more about Chinese culture (30,5%), and students practice listening comprehension when watching Chinese movies (32.3%). In addition, the study also uses a Logit regression model estimated by the method of maximum likelihood to compare popular Chinese learning method, showing that apart from learning Chinese through movies, the fact that students do a lot of homework also has a significant impact on the effectiveness of learning Chinese.