Việt Nam News

The National Election Council (NEC) voted and approved the minutes concluding the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA), held on May 23, during its seventh session in Hà Nội yesterday, with 100 per cent voting in approval.

The Vietnamese foreign ministry has called on Cambodian authorities to ensure the welfare of people of Vietnamese origin, after Phnom Penh last week ordered the eviction of many households in floating villages on the Tonle Sap River.

She made the statement in response to media questions over reports of many foreigners leaving Việt Nam in what has been described by some as an ‘exodus’ due to a crackdown on illegal immigration.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vương Đình Huệ, who is also Chairman of the National Election Council (NEC), chaired the council’s seventh meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.

HCM City is continuing its administrative reforms this year, with a focus on urban governance and revamping administrative units.

Ties between Brunei and Việt Nam are flourishing, according to the two nations' top legislators.

President Nguyễn Xuân Phúc chaired a meeting with governmental agencies to discuss a national project on improving law-making and governing capacity yesterday in Hà Nội.

Ambassador Phạm Hải Anh, deputy head of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations, highlighted strengthening cooperation and dialogue in solving challenges from armed groups and terrorists, creating development opportunities for countries in Central Africa.

Russia has started a process to consider transferring the technology behind the Sputnik V vaccine to Việt Nam, said Valentina Matvienko, Chairwoman of the Federation Council, in a phone call with Chairman of the National Assembly Vương Đình Huệ yesterday. 

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn yesterday proposed major measures to realise the tasks, including sharing information and experience in fighting the pandemic and facilitating the cross-border circulation of goods.

The turnout of 99.6 per cent for the elections of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for 2016-21 demonstrates people’s political awareness, patriotism and trust in the Party and the State, an official has said.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn met with Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn on the sidelines of the Special ASEAN - China Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the 6th Lancang - Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in China’s Chongqing City on Monday.

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vương Đình Huệ held phone talks with the Speaker of Australia’s House of Representatives Tony Smith on Monday to boost the strategic partnership between the two countries in general and the relationship between the two parliaments in particular.

China and ASEAN countries have worked together to solve issues in the East Sea despite the COVID-19 pandemic, officials have said.

The Government will do its best to support the development and production of a COVID-19 vaccine, said Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính in a meeting today with scientists and business leaders in Hà Nội. 

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bùi Thanh Sơn and his Lao counterpart Saleumxay Kommasith on Sunday discussed their countries’ mutual support in the fight against COVID-19 and identified ways to boost bilateral relations.

The move came nearly a day after the southern province of Đồng Nai early Friday issued an urgent dispatch requiring all people returning or arriving from HCM City to either self-isolate at home or be quarantined at centralised quarantine facilities.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chính had a phone call with the premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China Li Keqiang on Friday to discuss socio-economic co-operation and measures to boost relations between the two neighbours.