President Tran Dai Quang’s freshly-concluded State visits to India and Bangladesh have gained successes in all spheres, said Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dang Dinh Quy.

Nguyen Quang Dung, Director General of the Department of Salary Affairs under the Ministry of Home Affairs, speaks to Vietnam News Agency about proposed changes in the future wage system. The proposals will be discussed at the Party Central Committee’s meeting, which opens on May 7 in Hanoi.

The 12th Party Central Committee wrapped up its sixth plenum in Hanoi on October 11 after seven working days in a serious, democratic and responsible manner.

The Government has requested ministries and agencies to further review and remove at least one third or half of existing business conditions in the fields under their management as well as administrative procedures that are hindering businesses’ investment.

The nation’s population policy must be integrated with other socio-economic factors including national defense and security to ensure rapid and sustainable development, experts said on November 29 in Hanoi.

Cabinet members focused discussions on the building of institutions during a regular meeting in Hanoi on December 29, also the last sitting of the Government in 2017.

Former National Assembly member Chau Thi Thu Nga was sentenced to life imprisonment for swindling to appropriate assets after a two-week trial that concluded on October 16.

Since the beginning of 2017, 5,000 administrative procedures and 24 conditional business lines have been trimmed, with another 3,000 business conditions on the chopping block, the Vietnamese Government said recently.

One way to resolve environmental disputes, especially between citizens and polluting businesses as witnessed in recent times, is through litigation.

Tourists from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and Italy will continue to be exempted from visa until June 2021, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at a Government meeting on May 3.

The 26th annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Parliamentary Forum (APPF) from January 18-21 adopted the Hanoi Declaration, setting forth a new vision for Asia-Pacific parliamentary partnership.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc delivered a speech at the Vietnam Business Summit which was held in the central city of Da Nang on November 7.nbsp;

The strategic partnership between Việt Nam and Japan is expected to enter a new period of development, especially in the fields of trade, economy, defence-security, health, high technology, locality-to-locality co-operation, and people-to-people exchanges.

Vietnamese Ambassador Nguyễn Phương Nga, head of the Việt Nam Permanent Mission to the United Nations, deposited with the UN Secretary General Việt Nam’s instrument of ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on May 17, becoming the 10th country ratifying the document.

Minister of Finance Đinh Tiến Dũng said the ministry would not raise VAT tax to 11-12 per cent, adjust environmental tax, and assured the public that the “proposed property tax is meant to prevent corruption, State budget collection is important but not the primary purpose [of the proposal.]”

The 16th meeting of the Việt Nam-Cambodia Joint Committee on Economic, Cultural and Scientific-Technological Cooperation was held in Hà Nội on May 17, co-chaired by Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Phạm Bình Minh and Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhonn

Efforts to stabilise lives, production and businesses in the central provinces affected by the Formosa-related marine environmental incident have paid off, said Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc at a national conference in Quảng Trị Province on May 17.

A high-level delegation from Cuba’s Young Communist League (UJC) is paying a working visit to Việt Nam to learn about the Southeast Asian country’s youth education and training in an ongoing effort to share knowlege on national development and effective defence strategies.

The upcoming National Assembly meeting will begin next Monday, May 21 and conclude on June 15, annouce the NA’s Secretary General Nguyễn Hạnh Phúc during a press conference today (May 19).

The People’s Court of Hà Nội on Thursday reached a verdict to punish five con artists from northern province of Lạng Sơn who helped a Chinese national in impersonating police to blackmail people.