Việt Nam News

As Việt Nam will take over the ASEAN Chairmanship from Thailand in early November 2019, Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh asked the National ASEAN 2020 Committee, its sub-committees and Secretariat, ministries, agencies and localities to do their best to complete preparations for the event.

Việt Nam and the European Union (EU) have signed an agreement on the establishment of a framework for Việt Nam’s participation in crisis management activities of the EU.

An inspection team from the European Commission (EC) will visit Việt Nam next month to assess the country’s efforts in implementing the recommendations on fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Director General of the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) Nguyễn Đức Lợi, a member of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee, had a working session with Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee and head of the PCC’s Thought Commission Victor Gaute Lopez in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Previously, the Enterprise Law of 2014 and its guiding documents required household businesses to employ more than 10 people to register as businesses.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc hosted a reception for Governor of Japan’s Kagoshima prefecture Mitazono Satoshi in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

Vietnamese Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Tòng Thi Phóng proposed measures to promote respect for international law while addressing a plenum of the 141st Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-141) on Tuesday.

Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng on Wednesday received newly-accredited ambassadors from Sweden, France, Ireland, Sri Lanka, Bahrain, Angola, Laos, Uzbekistan, the Republic of Korea and Tanzania, and head of the European Union (EU) delegation to Việt Nam.

Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tòng Thị Phóng had separate meetings with President of the International Parliamentary Union Gabriela Cuevas Barron and Vice President of the Cuban National Assembly Ana Maria Mari Machado on Tuesday.

Deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education and Minister of Information and Communications Nguyễn Mạnh Hùng hosted a reception in Hanoi on Tuesday for Vice President of China’s Xinhua News Agency Zhang Sutang.

Việt Nam will do its best to foster traditional friendship, comprehensive co-operation and solidarity with the Party, State and people of Cuba, said Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, Trần Quốc Vượng.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said he expects the northern port city of Hải Phòng will take the lead in developing a modern agricultural industry while addressing a conference on Tuesday to review the implementation of the national programme on new-style rural building areas in the city in 2010-20.

Việt Nam is joining 22 countries and territories at a conference on international law development in Asia held in Indonesia from October 14 to 18.

Voters in Hà Nội’s Ba Đình, Tây Hồ and Hoàn Kiếm districts expressed their support and confidence in the leadership of the Party and State, and the management of the Government during a meeting with Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng on Tuesday.

Despite many challenges and difficulties, Việt Nam’s socio-economic achievements in 2019 had been positive, said Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyễn Chí Dũng at a meeting of the National Assembly’s Standing Committee yesterday.

Vietnamese Minister of National Defence General Ngô Xuân Lịch is leading a high-ranking military delegation to visit the European Union (EU) from October 14-19.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam has been appointed to run the Ministry of Health's Party activities, replacing the former Secretary Nguyễn Thị Kim Tiến.

The High-level People’s Court in Hà Nội on Monday increased the penalty imposed on one of the four defendants charged with “abusing position and power to appropriate assets” at the State-run Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin).