Việt Nam News

President Trần Đại Quang urged the procuracy sector to focus on developing itself and creating a stronger Party organisation while attending the sector’s conference yesterday to launch plans for 2018.
 

All sectors, localities and enterprises should work together to make the country more competitive, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at an online conference yesterday.

The HCM City National University and Laos National University on Friday held a workshop on preserving and promoting traditional cultural values of Việt Nam and Laos, attracting academics from 20 universities and institutions in the two countries.

The Việt Nam – China Friendship Association in HCM City yesterday reviewed its achievements over the last five years and made plans to hold more cultural exchange events, seek more financial resources, and explore more business opportunities between local firms and Chinese partners.

The Government held its annual teleconference with provinces and cities yesterday to discuss implementing Party and National Assembly sociio-economic resolutions and State budget estimates for 2018. 

Cameroon Foreign Minister Lejeune Mbella Mbella has affirmed that Cameroon hopes to bolster co-operation with Việt Nam in trade, investment, agriculture, education, green energy and telecommunications.

The Vietnamese Party, State and people always consider Cuba as their brothers in any circumstance, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said while receiving the new Cuban Ambassador to Việt Nam, Lianys Torres Rivera, in Hà Nội yesterday.

Đinh La Thăng, former chairman of the Member Council of PetroVietnam (PVN), will face charges of “deliberately violating State regulations, causing severe consequences” while his subordinate, Trịnh Xuân Thanh, will have the same charges together with “misappropriating property.”

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday urged newly-accredited US Ambassador to Việt Nam, Daniel Kritenbrink, to promote the exchange of high-level delegations and prompt the US Government to actively handle issues proposed by Việt Nam to develop bilateral relations.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee Nguyễn Phú Trọng has requested the army maintain its core role in providing for the defence and security of all people.

Collaboration among the three pillars of the ASEAN Community—political security, economics, and socio-cultural issues—determines ASEAN’s success and should be promoted, said Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyễn Quốc Dũng, head of Việt Nam-ASEAN Senior Officials’ Meeting.

Việt Nam and Japan should take the lead in speeding up the signing of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) as the two nations have a strategic partnership, traditional friendship and time-honoured trade, economic and investment ties, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

A delegation of Hà Nội officials led by municipal Party Committee Secretary Hoàng Trung Hải laid wreaths at the B52 victory monument on Hà Nội’s Khâm Thiên street on December 26.

President Trần Đại Quang has urged the judicial sector to focus on dealing with complaints and denunciations from people and to increase direct dialogues with citizens to prevent prolonged and complicated cases.

Lauding the Central Theoretical Council’s important role, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyễn Phú Trọng emphasised at its meeting on Saturday in Hà Nội that the council should continue to provide strong theoretical foundations for the building of policies that are consistent with Maxist-Leninist thought, Hồ Chí Minh’s teachings and Socialist ideology.

An increase in social insurance premiums that will accompany new rules that take effect next year will benefit workers, officials claim.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc lauded the effective cooperation between Japanese and Vietnamese businesses as he received the Special Advisor to the Japanese Cabinet Isao Iijima in Hà Nội on Saturday.

Deputy Prime Minister Vũ Đức Đam received Cambodian Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith in Hà Nội on Friday.