Việt Nam News

Việt Nam treasures the help that the people of Hungary have extended to the people of Việt Nam in the struggle for national liberation in the past, and in national construction nowadays, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân said in the Hungarian capital yesterday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has promulgated a government overall programme on practicing thrift and preventing wastefulness in 2017.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said on Saturday that business should be the main force in building a new-style agriculture and creating farm produce that meets consumer demand. 

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Thị Thu Hằng said on Saturday that Việt Nam has consistently insisted that disputes in the East Sea be settled by peaceful measures in line with international law. 

A meeting to mark the 110th birth anniversary of late Party General Secretary Lê Duẩn was held in Đông Hà city in the central province of Quảng Trị yesterday.

Viet Nam’s National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân and Speaker of the Swedish parliament Urban Ahlin agreed to enhance their countries’ parliamentary relations during talks in Stockholm on April 6.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng asked the central province of Quảng Trị to fully tap all available resources to further step up its development during a working session with provincial officials on Thursday.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith and National Assembly Chairwoman Pany Yathotou valued the co-operation between the State Audit Organisation of Laos (SAL) and the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) while meeting SAV officials on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc asked Thailand’s Siam Cement Group (SCG) to expand investment to more fields in Việt Nam while receiving SCG President and CEO Roongrote Rangsiyopash in Hà Nội on Wednesday.

President Trần Đại Quang attended a grand ceremony held in the northern midland province of Phú Thọ on Thursday (the 10th day of the third lunar month) to commemorate the death anniversary of Hùng Kings - the legendary founders of of the nation. 

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday extended his condolences to Russian President Vladimir Putin over the St Petersburg subway blast. 14 people were killed and more than 50 others injured by an explosion inside a subway train in St Petersburg on Monday.

Việt Nam wants to reinforce traditional ties with Mongolia – an important partner in its external policy, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc told Mongolian Foreign Minister Tsend Munkh Orgil during a reception in Hà Nội yesterday.

National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tòng Thị Phóng has highlighted Việt Nam’s achievements in tackling inequality and ensuring justice at the plenary session of the 136th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Adjustments to the draft Law on Management and Use of Public Assets were high on the agenda at the National Assembly full-time deputies’ meeting yesterday in Hả Nội.

A Thai military delegation, led by the Chief of Defense Forces of the Royal Thai Armed Forces General (GEN) Surapong Suwana-adth, talk to a Vietnamese delegation led by deputy Minister of Defence Lieutenant General Phan Văn Giang yesterday in Hà Nội during their official visit

Findings from the 2016 Việt Nam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), which was released yesterday, revealed that concerns about the environment have become a more salient topic among Vietnamese citizens.

Full-time National Assembly (NA) deputies discussed penalties for juvenile offenders under draft revisions of the 2015 Penal Code at a meeting that began in Hà Nội yesterday.

Việt Nam attaches great importance to consolidating and enhancing its traditional friendship and lasting cooperation with Mongolia, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh said yesterday.