Việt Nam News

Việt Nam’s Deputy Foreign Minister Bùi Thanh Sơn conducted the fifth political consultation with Cuba’s First Deputy Foreign Minister  Marcelino Medina González as part of his official visit to Cuba on September 19-21.

HCM City solicits proposals that will enable further decentralisation of power, deputy chairman of its People’s Committee, Trần Vĩnh Tuyến, has said.

Trường Thiếu sinh quân (Military school for teenagers), was founded in 1949 by General Võ Nguyên Giáp as directed by President Hồ Chí Minh.

Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education Võ Văn Thưởng has led a Party delegation to visit Kazakhstan from September 16 to 18.

The ninth National Congress of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) yesterday sought measures to improve the efficiency of its local chapters and member organisations by encouraging the engagement of members and reinforcing the national solidarity bloc.

National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee members spoke out yesterday against a Government proposal to increase the national overtime cap for workers.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân received Senator Catherine Deroche, President of the France-Việt Nam Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group (FVFPG) of the Senate of France, in Hà Nội yesterday.

David Stilwell, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, cited Chinese “repeated illegal actions and militarisation” in the South China Sea (called East Sea by Việt Nam) while he testified at  the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday (local time).

Investigations into child sexual harassment cases face hindrances in examination work, said a National Assembly (NA) deputy.

The third Việt Nam -Thailand defence policy dialogue took place in HCM City on Thursday under the chair of Việt Nam’s Deputy Defence Minister Nguyễn Chí Vịnh and Thailand’s Permanent Secretary of Defence Natt Intracharoen.

Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình and an inspection team yesterday worked with the Commission for the Management of State Capital (CMSC) at Enterprises for the first time since the commission’s establishment in 2018.

The ninth National Congress of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) officially opened in Hà Nội yesterday, bringing together 1,300 delegates representing people from all walks of life, representatives of armed forces and overseas Vietnamese.

The 39th ASEAN Chiefs of Police Conference (ASEANAPOL 39) concluded in Hà Nội on Thursday.

The lives of ethnic minority people could be improved and gap between ethnic and mountainous region and others narrowed once a master plan get approval from the National Assembly.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc highlighted the roles of regional chiefs of police who are in Hà Nội for the 39th ASEANAPOL discussing ways to combat transnational crime.

The People’s Court of the Mekong Delta province of Bến Tre jailed Nguyễn Văn Công Em  for “making, storing, spreading information, materials, items for the purpose of opposing the State of Socialist Republic of Việt Nam” under Article 117 of the 2015 Criminal Code.

A draft decree on regulations for customs procedures, inspection and supervision for transit goods via the ASEAN Customs Transit System (ACTS) was submitted to the National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC) yesterday.

Secretary of the Hà Nội municipal Party Committee Hoàng Trung Hải has affirmed that Việt Nam always highly values France’s role and position in its foreign policy and will do its best to foster bilateral ties in the near future.