Việt Nam News

Party General Secretary and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng has called on citizens and soldiers nationwide to be united in natural disaster prevention, control and response tasks, to create a society safe from natural disasters and aim towards national sustainable development.

The National Assembly (NA)’s Committee for Finance and Budget proposed prioritising public investment sourced from the State budget in the 2021-25 period to disadvantaged areas in the mountainous, border and island localities to shorten development gaps between regions.

The ASEAN 2020 National Committee convened its fifth meeting in Hà Nội on Friday, focusing on preparations for the upcoming 36th ASEAN Summit.

The Government needed to build short- and long-term scenarios for socio-economic development and review major targets for the economy for 2020, lawmakers said at a NA Standing Committee meeting on Friday.

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Trương Hoà Bình on Friday led a delegation of high-ranking officials from the Vietnamese Party, State, National Assembly, and Government as well as the Vietnam Fatherland Front to pay tribute to former Lao Prime Minister and former Chairman of the Lao Front for National Construction Central Committee Sisavath Keobounphanh, who passed away on May 12 at the age of 92.

He expressed his belief that the ambassadors will bring into play their important bridging role to develop relations with Việt Nam.

ASEAN defence senior officials held a video conference on Friday to share experiences of ASEAN defence forces in preventing the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss future co-operation direction for disease response.

Việt Nam stands ready to cooperate with countries, including Canada, in recovering the global trade and supply chain, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh told Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne during their phone talks on Thursday.

Việt Nam has urged parties to not take any action to further complicate the situation in the East Sea, said Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Lê Thị Thu Hằng.

Chaired by Party General Secretary, President Nguyễn Phú Trọng, the PCC elected an additional two members to the PCC’s Inspection Commission, 12th tenure.

The Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee, the National Assembly, the President, the Government, and the Việt Nam Fatherland Front Central Committee on Wednesday sent a message of condolences to their Lao counterparts over the recent passing of former Prime Minister Sisavath Keobounphanh.

The Vietnamese diplomat asserted Việt Nam’s support for the full implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, and activities of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in line with the convention.

At the handover ceremony, Hà Nội presented 100,000 antibacterial cloth face masks and 50,000 medical face masks to Moscow, along with another 50,000 masks to the Vietnamese Embassy and Vietnamese community in Russia.

Members of the National Assembly (NA) Committee of Legal Affairs on Tuesday agreed on managing citizen residency via 12-digit personal identification numbers updated on the national online database.

The services include applications for financial support for citizens whose jobs have been impacted by the coronavirus, with a maximum of VND1.8 million per month for three months on offer.

Minh served as Chairman of Đà Nẵng People’s Committee in 2006-11 while Văn Hữu Chiến was his successor.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) entered 2020 with a lot of difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the initial success in curbing the spread of the disease in the region has proved the effective intra-regional cooperation, said Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lieut. Gen Nguyễn Chí Vịnh.

Police on Monday said they have arrested and launched an investigation against a senior leader of the State-owned Việt Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) for violations in handling a key project in central Việt Nam.