Foreign minister hosts outgoing Mongolian ambassador

Vietnamese foreign minister Lê Hoài Trung welcomed important strides in economic, trade, investment, and agricultural collaboration between Việt Nam and Mongolia, noting that multiple newly signed agreements have created a solid legal framework to expand two-way trade.

National Assembly extends first session by half a day

Under the revised agenda, the legislature will approve two additional items – a draft law supplementing several articles of key tax-related laws and the plan to handle the source of money to implement the international arbitration ruling.

Pay rise needed to ensure public employees, NA deputy says

National Assembly deputy Thạch Phước Bình of the Mekong Delta province of Vĩnh Long proposed raising the base salary to between VNĐ2.65 million ($106) and VNĐ2.70 million ($108) per month as a more appropriate and feasible option at present.

Việt Nam attends defence services, security exhibitions in Malaysia

This year’s exhibitions feature 15 thematic categories, highlighting modern military products such as aircraft, warships, armoured vehicles, man-portable low-range missile systems, anti-aircraft gun systems, laser weapons, as well as various types of ammunition, military uniforms, and logistics equipment serving defence purposes.

16th NA to reviews amendments to four tax-related laws on Tuesday

Lawmakers are expected to discuss the supplementary assessment of the implementation of the 2025 socio-economic development plan and state budget, as well as performance in the early months of 2026. They will also review the five-year socio-economic development plan for 2026–2030, thrift practices and anti-wastefulness efforts in 2025, and progress in achieving national gender equality targets.

Deputy PM orders sweeping administrative reform, cutting red tape by half

The Minister of Finance and the Governor of the SBV have been directed to take strong and proactive measures to accelerate the digitalisation of administrative records and results, issue electronic outputs in administrative procedures, and, in particular, promote the reuse of digitised data in line with the Government’ requirements.

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