Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng hailed the Central Military Commission for well performing its military and national defence tasks during a conference in Hà Nội on August 29.

President of the National Legislative Assembly of Thailand Pornpetch Wichitcholchai, his spouse and a high-ranking delegation from the National Legislative Assembly will pay an official visit to Việt Nam from August 13-16.

At its third session the 14th National Assembly passed a resolution to trial various policies on bad debt settlement and the handling of secured assets for bad debts of credit institutions, branches of foreign banks and State-owned organisations to speed up the settlement of bad debts, which are acting as speed bumps in the banking sector’s development.

The People’s Court of the northern province of Hà Nam on Tuesday gave a jail sentence of nine years to Trần Thị Nga convicted of conducting anti-State propaganda. The court also imposed five years of house arrest to be served following the prison term.

President Trần Đại Quang reported on the outcomes of the third session of the 14th National Assembly and highlighted issues of concern during a meeting with constituents in districts 1, 3 and 4 in HCM City yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc stressed that not only the central government but also grassroots administrations must take action to build a transparent and facilitating Government while meeting with voters in the northern port city of Hải Phòng yesterday.
 

The third plenary session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) wrapped up yesterday after one month of working, marked by a busy law-making agenda.

More than 80 per cent of National Assembly deputies yesterday voted to approve the amended Law on Railways.

The third session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) spent the entire Friday morning discussing the (revised) draft Law on Public Debt Management, for the first time.

A draft amendment to the 2003 Law on Fisheries would allow provincial people’s committees to assign, lease and withdraw sea surface from organisations and individuals for aquaculture farming but a National Assembly working body says the Government or ministries should do the job.