Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday urged Government members to focus on increasing the gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, which he said stood at a low rate of 5.1 per cent in the first quarter of the year.

National Assembly chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân will pay an official visit to Sweden, Hungary and the Czech Republic from April 6 to 14, according to the NA’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

The Investigative Police Agency of the Ministry of Public Security will prosecute two additional suspects related to the embezzlement case against former PetroVietnam Construction (PVC) chairman, Trịnh Xuân Thanh.

Some provincial departments might be merged in keeping with the Govermment’s commitment to streamline its notoriously clunky and bloated bureaucracy, according to a new draft resolution circulated by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA).

Việt Nam is ready to co-operate with President Donald Trump’s administration and maintain the impetus for growing bilateral ties, President Trần Đại Quang told US Ambassador to Việt Nam Ted Osius yesterday.

The Australia and Việt Nam governments on Friday held their High-Level Consultations on Development Cooperation to discuss results of their long-term development co-operation and the importance of its transformation into an economic partnership.

Deputy Minister of Education and Training Bùi Văn Ga met on Thursday with President of the Swiss Council of States, Ivo Bischofberger, to compare notes on education co-operation between the two countries.

Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on Thursday applauded the effective co-operation between his country’s finance ministry and its Vietnamese counterpart, which his helping improve Lao tax collection and other financial mechanisms.

Vietnamese authorities and media outlets are willing to provide all possible support for the operation of Agence France-Presse in the country, President Trần Đại Quang said on Thursday at a Hà Nội reception for the chairman and CEO of the French news agency, Emmanuel Hoog.

Việt Nam has protested against a live-fire military drill conducted this week by Taiwan in the Trường Sa archipelago, demanding that it refrain from repeating such activity, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lê Hải Bình said on Thursday.

President Trần Đại Quang told President of the Swiss Council of States Ivo Bischofberger that Việt Nam always attaches great importance to reinforcing and promoting the sound relationship with Switzerland during their meeting in Hà Nội yesterday.

Leaders of six provinces on Tuesday sat down with relevant ministers to talk about the construction of a coastal highway route, the detailed plan for which was approved back in 2010.

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân has expected Switzerland to continue encouraging its businessmen to invest in Việt Nam especially in the fields of finance, banking, insurance, high technology, manufacturing, pharmaceutical industry, agricultural production, tourism, hotel and hospitality.

President Trần Đại Quang yesterday asked the Hyundai group to support its Vietnamese partner in personnel training and technology transfer, and increase the localisation rate of its products made in Việt Nam.

The Supreme People’s Court yesterday looked into issues relating to the draft law revising the 2015 Penal Code, including the scope of criminal responsibility by those aged 14 to 16 and the criminal liability of adults in commerce.

President of the Council of States of Switzerland Ivo Bischofberger arrived in Hà Nội yesterday to begin his official visit till March 31 at the invitation of Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân. 

Việt Nam will welcome and create favourable conditions for Indian firms to join programmes and projects on information technology in Việt Nam, Minister of Information and Communications Trương Minh Tuấn said.

The Surpreme People’s Procuracy has made a request to amend the Penal Code to facilitate investigation and legal proceedings with child sex abuse suspects.