Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list ofselected news summaries reported last weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
- President Vo Van Thuong has offered incense incommemoration of some late Party and State leaders, and visited several formerleaders on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
President Thuong offered incense to commemoratecomrade Truong Chinh, who undertook many important positions of the Party andState during his more than 60 years of revolutionary activities from 1925-1988;and late President General Tran Dai Quang. Read full story
- Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue hasrecently signed to attest the revised Land Law and the revised Law on CreditInstitutions.
The amended laws were officially passed on January18, as part of the 15th NA’s 5th extraordinary session. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presentedgifts to encourage the forces who are on duty during the Lunar New Year (Tet)Festival in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Visiting and delivering his Tet wishes to workersof the Can Tho Urban Joint Stock Company, PM Chinh highly appreciated thespirit of solidarity, hard work, efforts and achievements of more than 450officials and workers of the company in recent times. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the seventh meeting ofthe Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform in Hanoi onFebruary 2 to evaluate the committee's work in 2023 and outline tasks for thisyear.
PM Chinh, who is also head of the steering committee,underscored that the Party and State view the acceleration of administrativereform as a pivotal stride toward establishing a socialist rule-of-law State,one that serves its citizens with utmost professionalism, efficiency andeffectiveness. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the second meeting ofthe steering committee for the implementation of the National Assembly’sresolution on piloting special mechanisms and policies for the development ofHo Chi Minh City.
Issued on June 24, 2023, Resolution 98/2023/QH15 stipulatesmechanisms and policies designed specifically for the city in investmentmanagement, State finance and budget, urban governance, natural resources andenvironment, priority fields calling for strategic investors, sci-tech,innovation, and the administrative apparatus of both Ho Chi Minh City and ThuDuc city. Read full story
- Minister of Foreign Affairs BuiThanh Son has made a series of recommendations on measures to step upcooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and theEuropean Union (EU) while attending the 24th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting(AEMM) in Brussels on February 2.
Acknowledging positive progress in the tworegional groupings’ strategic partnership, the minister stressed the need forresolute and effective implementation of decisions made by leaders at theASEAN-EU Commemorative Summit in 2022, particularly regarding economic, trade,investment, sustainable development, and maritime cooperation. He alsounderscored the importance of fostering new growth drivers such as digitaltransformation, energy transition, green economy, and circular economy. Read full story
- The Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House haspublished two new books by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
- President Vo Van Thuong has offered incense incommemoration of some late Party and State leaders, and visited several formerleaders on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.
President Thuong offered incense to commemoratecomrade Truong Chinh, who undertook many important positions of the Party andState during his more than 60 years of revolutionary activities from 1925-1988;and late President General Tran Dai Quang. Read full story
- Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue hasrecently signed to attest the revised Land Law and the revised Law on CreditInstitutions.
The amended laws were officially passed on January18, as part of the 15th NA’s 5th extraordinary session. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited and presentedgifts to encourage the forces who are on duty during the Lunar New Year (Tet)Festival in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.
Visiting and delivering his Tet wishes to workersof the Can Tho Urban Joint Stock Company, PM Chinh highly appreciated thespirit of solidarity, hard work, efforts and achievements of more than 450officials and workers of the company in recent times. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the seventh meeting ofthe Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform in Hanoi onFebruary 2 to evaluate the committee's work in 2023 and outline tasks for thisyear.
PM Chinh, who is also head of the steering committee,underscored that the Party and State view the acceleration of administrativereform as a pivotal stride toward establishing a socialist rule-of-law State,one that serves its citizens with utmost professionalism, efficiency andeffectiveness. Read full story
- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the second meeting ofthe steering committee for the implementation of the National Assembly’sresolution on piloting special mechanisms and policies for the development ofHo Chi Minh City.
Issued on June 24, 2023, Resolution 98/2023/QH15 stipulatesmechanisms and policies designed specifically for the city in investmentmanagement, State finance and budget, urban governance, natural resources andenvironment, priority fields calling for strategic investors, sci-tech,innovation, and the administrative apparatus of both Ho Chi Minh City and ThuDuc city. Read full story
- Minister of Foreign Affairs BuiThanh Son has made a series of recommendations on measures to step upcooperation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and theEuropean Union (EU) while attending the 24th ASEAN-EU Ministerial Meeting(AEMM) in Brussels on February 2.
Acknowledging positive progress in the tworegional groupings’ strategic partnership, the minister stressed the need forresolute and effective implementation of decisions made by leaders at theASEAN-EU Commemorative Summit in 2022, particularly regarding economic, trade,investment, sustainable development, and maritime cooperation. He alsounderscored the importance of fostering new growth drivers such as digitaltransformation, energy transition, green economy, and circular economy. Read full story
- The Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House haspublished two new books by Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
The books are titled “Turning challenges into opportunities withresolve to create breakthroughs for rapid, sustainable development” and“Building pure, strong Party and political system to contribute to successfullyimplementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress”. Read full story
- The prestige and strength ofthe Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) are reflected in the revolutionary spiritas well as the spirit of criticism and self-criticism of each party member,according to Dr. Ruvislei González Sáez, one of the leading research experts onVietnam in Latin America.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'scorrespondent in Havana, Dr. González Sáez, a senior researcher at the CubanCentre for International Policy Research (CIPI), said 94 years after itsestablishment, the CPV today has become the second largestMarxism-Leninism-oriented political organisation in the world, with a largenumber of members, just after the Communist Party of China. Read full story
- Trade activities between Vietnam and China have been busysince the beginning of 2024, with a series of border gates reopened andupgraded.
According to the management board of the DongDang-Lang Son economic zone, the first week of the year saw the number oftrucks transporting goods through six land border gates in the northernmountainous province of Lang Son increased by nearly 300 compared to theprevious month. On a daily average, there were about 400 trucks carryingexports and about 800 trucks carrying imports. Read full story
- The prestige and strength ofthe Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) are reflected in the revolutionary spiritas well as the spirit of criticism and self-criticism of each party member,according to Dr. Ruvislei González Sáez, one of the leading research experts onVietnam in Latin America.
Talking to the Vietnam News Agency (VNA)'scorrespondent in Havana, Dr. González Sáez, a senior researcher at the CubanCentre for International Policy Research (CIPI), said 94 years after itsestablishment, the CPV today has become the second largestMarxism-Leninism-oriented political organisation in the world, with a largenumber of members, just after the Communist Party of China. Read full story
- Trade activities between Vietnam and China have been busysince the beginning of 2024, with a series of border gates reopened andupgraded.
According to the management board of the DongDang-Lang Son economic zone, the first week of the year saw the number oftrucks transporting goods through six land border gates in the northernmountainous province of Lang Son increased by nearly 300 compared to theprevious month. On a daily average, there were about 400 trucks carryingexports and about 800 trucks carrying imports. Read full story
- Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) in Japan, Australia, Algeria,Thailand and Laos celebrated Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival at gatherings heldin their host countries as the national biggest traditional festival isapproaching.
The Consulate General of Vietnam in Japan’s Osakacity held a Tet get-together for the Vietnamese community and foreigners inKansai region on February 2./. Read full story
The Consulate General of Vietnam in Japan’s Osakacity held a Tet get-together for the Vietnamese community and foreigners inKansai region on February 2./. Read full story
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