Việt Nam News

HCM City has set itself four main tasks for 2022: COVID-19 prevention, revival of the economy, improving governance, and infrastructure development.

Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh will lead a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Government to pay an official visit to Việt Nam from January 8 to 10 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Phạm Minh Chính.

Vietnam News Agency correspondent in New York has spoken with Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, head of Việt Nam’s delegation to the United Nations, on the two years the country has served as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

A number of activities are planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and India this year, Madan Mohan Sethi, the Indian consul general in HCM City, has said.

The 15th National Assembly convened its first-ever extraordinary session in Hà Nội on Tuesday, debating four draft documents and their verification reports on important issues of the national economy.

Tất Thành Cang, former vice secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, is facing a potential jail term of 12 to 14 years for "violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”, should he be found guilty.

The 15th National Assembly convened its first extraordinary session in Hà Nội on Tuesday 

Police in the northern province of Thái Nguyên have launched criminal proceedings against Phan Mạnh Cường, Secretary of Thái Nguyên City Party Committee and former head of the management board of the provincial industrial parks, for “negligence, causing damage to the State assets” in line with Article 179, Penal Code 2015.

The Hà Nội People’s Court on Friday returned verdicts for seven defendants in the case of illegal interference in bidding activities, enabling Nhật Cường Company to win contracts.

Several suspects of overcharging for COVID-19 test kits at Việt Á Technologies are being investigated for “offering bribes,” “receiving bribes,” and “abusing position and power while performing duties”

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng talks to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the upcoming Tết (Lunar New Year) about the significance of strengthening Party building and rectification.

All National Assembly (NA) deputies on Friday agreed to reduce the environmental protection tax on jet fuel by half starting from today as the aviation sector has been severely hit by COVID-19.

A man in Hà Nội was sentenced to five years in prison at a trial on December 31 on the charge of  “making, storing, distributing, or disseminating information, documents, and items against the State of the Socialist Republic of Việt Nam” under Article 117 of the 2015 Penal Code.

The following is the entire speech by Nguyễn Phú Trọng, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam, as he addressed the first-ever National Foreign Relations Conference for the Implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress held in Hà Nội on December 14, 2021.

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly, which is to open on January 4 and close on January 11, aims to decide on timely fiscal and monetary policies for the implementation of the socio-economic recovery and development programme and remove legal obstacles for development, heard a press conference in Hà Nội on Thursday.

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix highly values Việt Nam’s cooperation with UN in peacekeeping activities since the country joined the operations in 2014

Việt Nam's engagement in UN peacekeeping operations over the past seven years has achieved many positive results, and at the same time opened up many new directions of deployment. Deputy Director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations Mạc Đức Trọng spoke to Vietnam News Agency about these achievements.