Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has stressed the need for the northern port city of Hải Phòng to protect the environment to maintain the living standards of locals as it boasts strong industrial economic development.

Việt Nam condemns the killing of and violence against children, including sexual violence, the recruitment and use of child soldiers, acts of abduction and attacks targeting schools and hospitals.

Police in the central province of Thừa Thiên-Huế have seized hundreds of maps that indicated the East Sea (South China Sea) was named the "China Sea".

President Trần Đại Quang hosted a reception in Hà Nội yesterday for Cambodia’s Senior Minister and Minister of Cults and Religion, Him Chhem, during which he stressed the need for the two countries to boost religious cooperation in bilateral and multilateral frameworks.

The Government is determined to weather all setbacks in order to attain the highest possible economic growth, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said at the first regular meeting of the new Government yesterday.

Hậu Giang Province party committee has acknowledged mistakes in appointing disgraced high-ranking official Trịnh Xuân Thanh as vice-chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.

President Trần Đại Quang met with constituents in HCM City yesterday to ease their concerns over a number of socio-economic issues raised at the freshly-concluded first session of the 14th National Assembly.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc welcomed newly accredited Ambassador from Germany Christian Berger in Hà Nội yesterday. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has asked the northern province of Nam Định to focus on restoring production after typhoon Mirinae – the first storm to hit Việt Nam this year.

Visits by a number of Taiwanese officials to the Ba Bình (Itu Aba) feature area have seriously violated Việt Nam’s sovereignty over the Trường Sa (Spratly) archipelago, stated Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lê Hải Bình yesterday.

National Assembly deputies have pinned high hopes on the Government for the 2016-2021 tenure after hearing Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc’s inaugural address on Tuesday, in which he pledged to build a Government serves the people and spurs growth.

A delegation of top Vietnamese leaders laid wreaths and paid tribute to heroic martyrs at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs in Hà Nội yesterday on the 69th National War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day.

As many as 96.96 per cent of deputies at the first session of the 14th National Assembly yesterday approved a resolution determining there will be 27 members of the Government in the 2016-2021 tenure, the same number as the previous tenure. 

Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh met his counterparts from Norway, New Zealand and Canada yesterday on the sidelines of the 49th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting (AMM-49) and related meetings in Vientiane, Laos.

Việt Nam has reiterated its stance on protecting peace, security, stability and maritime navigation and aviation in the South China Sea (East Sea) at separate meetings between ASEAN foreign ministers and their counterparts from partner countries in Laos.

 

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh held meetings yesterday with his counterparts on the sidelines of the 49th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting (AMM 49) in Laos.

Top Vietnamese leaders laid wreaths and paid tribute to heroic martyrs at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs in Hà Nội on the 69th National War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day today.

As many as 485 out of 489 deputies present at the July 26 plenary session of the 14th National Assembly, or 98.18 per cent, voted for Nguyễn Xuân Phúc as Prime Minister for the 2016-2021 tenure.