Việt Nam News

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc yesterday expressed gratitude for war martyrs and former leaders of localities, saying their contributions would keep the revolutionary flame alive.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh has hailed the press’s significant contributions to the country’s external affairs last year at a New Year meeting hosted by the Foreign Ministry yesterday. 

President of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyễn Thiện Nhân has expressed wish that the overseas Vietnamese would popularise traditional culture to Vietnamese generations abroad and international friends.

Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng yesterday paid a pre-Tết visit to the Border Guard High Command in Hà Nội, during which he praised the achievements that border guards have achieved so far as the major force in protecting the national sovereignty and border security. 

President Trần Đại Quang praised the contributions of Overseas Vietnamese towards the country’s achievements at a meeting yesterday with 50 overseas Vietnamese delegates. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has continuously engaged in a series of sessions and meetings with world and business leaders as part of his sideline activities at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Inspectors from the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHF) have confirmed that dozens of management appointees in Hải Dương Province’s Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Department violated official recruitment and promotion regulations.

Việt Nam will focus on developing human resources, science and technology in a bid to keep pace with the fourth industrial revolution, Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc said yesterday at a debate in Davos, Switzerland about the future of production.

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc has affirmed that Việt Nam always welcomes international media to the country to cover its development and global integration. 

Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc participated in activities on the sidelines of the 47th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos City, Switzerland on Wednesday.

President Trần Đại Quang has assured Azerbaijani Minister of Energy Natig Aga Emi Olgu Aliyev that Việt Nam is ready to create favourable conditions for Azerbaijan’s goods to enter the country. 

The capital city’s police said they are considering electronic (and automatic) charging of traffic fines to the offenders’ bank accounts. Police officers mostly rally behind the idea, while many others, car drivers and other authority figures included, however, are not so impressed, and urged careful study.

President Trần Đại Quang had a working session with the Standing Board of the Hải Phòng municipal Party Committee yesterday, recognising the northern city’s significant achievements in 2016. 

Việt Nam is focused on completing economic reforms, and building a consistent, synchronous and modern administrative regime to enhance management efficiency, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc.

As part of his visit in Hà Nội yesterday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed his desire to help Việt Nam implement managerial personnel training projects.

The Politburo on Monday issued a resolution on developing tourism into a spearhead economic sector by 2020, contributing 10 per cent to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP), up from the current 6.8 per cent

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Hà Kim Ngọc has called for governmental co-operation and active citizen roles in researching and creating conditions for partnerships with Canada in three fields: development co-operation, education-training, and trade and investment.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will arrive in Việt Nam today for a two-day visit on the last leg of his first trip abroad in 2017.