Việt Nam News

Vietnamese-Australian Châu Văn Khảm, 70, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of “terrorist activities against the People’s government” at the first-instance trial on Monday (November 11) at the HCM City People’s Court.

ASEAN member countries have made remarkable efforts to set up safe, effective and sustainable transport systems in the ASEAN region and between ASEAN and other regions.

The National Assembly (NA) this morning approved the Resolution on socio-economic development plan for the year 2020, targeting 6.8 per cent GDP growth and improvements to national competitiveness.

Chairman of the Mazhilis (lower house) of the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan Nurlan Nigmatulin will pay an official visit to Việt Nam from November 13-15.

Phan Trung Tuấn, deputy director of the Department of Local Government under the Ministry of Home Affairs, talks to Sài Gòn Giải phóng (Liberated Sài Gòn) newspaper about key points in the draft revised Law on the Organisation of the Local Government

PM Phúc and US Commerce Secretary witnessed the signing of several important commercial deals.

The greatest challenge to Việt Nam's development was a lack of aspiration to move forward while the biggest threat was reluctance to take action due to fear of responsibility, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday.

In his presentation, he said fake news continues to be a major concern for news agencies and media outlets around the world – and the VNA is no exception.

Vietnamese social networks were set to have 90 million users by the end of 2020, the communications minister said on Friday, as the Government kept pushing hard to break the foreign monopoly in Việt Nam.

IFC has already invested in the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (Vietinbank), Sacombank and ABBank. 

President of the Republic of Korea (RoK) Moon Jae-in highlighted the good relations between the RoK and Việt Nam in all fields while hosting delegates from the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agency (OANA) in Seoul on Thursday.

Việt Nam is one of the leading countries in the world in terms of internet use and subscription growth.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on Thursday continued questioning Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh and Minister of Home Affairs Lê Vĩnh Tân on issues under their management.

Staff of Việt Nam's Level-2 field Hospital No 2 are ready for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, said Director of the Việt Nam Department of Peacekeeping Operations Colonel Hoàng Kim Phụng.

National Assembly (NA) deputies on Thursday continued questioning Minister of Industry and Trade Trần Tuấn Anh and Minister of Home Affairs Lê Vĩnh Tân on issues under their management.

NA deputies yesterday asked about measures to remove the European Commission (EC)’s ‘yellow card’ warning on Việt Nam’s fisheries sector during the question & answer (Q&A) session to Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyễn Xuân Cường, as part of the 14th NA’s ongoing eighth session.

The Vietnamese Deputy PM asked the South African government to help address problems regarding payment methods and consider allowing Vietnamese banks to open branches in the country.

In the morning session, the minister received 66 questions on the progress of new rural development, agricultural production, solutions to African swine flu outbreak, and others.