Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh will lead a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Government to pay an official visit to Việt Nam from January 8 to 10 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Phạm Minh Chính.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 5 highlighted solidarity; discipline; safe, effective, and active adaptation; and recovery as the theme of 2022, to complete targets and tasks set for the year.

Vietnam News Agency correspondent in New York has spoken with Ambassador Đặng Đình Quý, head of Việt Nam’s delegation to the United Nations, on the two years the country has served as non-permanent member of the UN Security Council.

Lao Prime Minister Phankham Viphavanh will lead a high-ranking delegation of the Lao Government to pay an official visit to Vietnam from January 8 to 10 at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Pham Minh Chinh.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attended and gave directions at a teleconference between the Government and localities on January 5 to review 2021 performance and implement the Party Central Committee’s Conclusion and the National Assembly’s Resolution on 2022 socio-economic development scheme.

A number of activities are planned to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Việt Nam and India this year, Madan Mohan Sethi, the Indian consul general in HCM City, has said.

Staff members of Vietnam's third level-two field hospital at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have recently assisted doctors at a hospital run by the Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in conducting a successful caesarean section for a mother with severe kyphosis.

Leaders of cities and provinces across the countries proposed that the Government and the Prime Minister continue speeding up decentralisation and the delegation of power to localities in parallel with suitable allocation of resources and strengthening of supervision and inspection during their online meeting with the Government on January 5.

Vietnam plans to strongly improve its business environment and rapidly increase the number of newly-established firms, according to a draft resolution on tasks and solutions to improve the business environment and national competitiveness in 2022 delivered by Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai at the Government’s online meeting with localities on January 5.

Vietnam has become one of the six countries with highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage in the world, Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh told a teleconference between the Government and localities on January 5.

The Government’s online conference with localities convened on January 5, reviewing performance last year and discussing the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s conclusion and the National Assembly’s resolution on socio-economic development tasks in 2022.

Resolution 128 is of great significance in COVID-19 fight and economic recovery, Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Tran Quoc Phuong told a seminar, referring to the Government’s Resolution 128/NQ-CP on safe and flexible adaption to and effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 15th National Assembly convened its first-ever extraordinary session in Hà Nội on Tuesday, debating four draft documents and their verification reports on important issues of the national economy.

Vietnam has sketched out specific tasks and roadmaps to implement the Abolition of Forced Labour Convention (C105) of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), under a plan approved recently.

The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Organisation Commission and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party (LPRP) Central Committee’s Organisation Commission reviewed their cooperation and set out orientations for the time ahead during their online talks on January 4.

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly (NA), opened in Hanoi on January 4, is looking into some major, important, and urgent issues.

Tất Thành Cang, former vice secretary of HCM City’s Party Committee, is facing a potential jail term of 12 to 14 years for "violating regulations on the management and use of State assets, causing losses and wastefulness”, should he be found guilty.

Deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) debated four draft documents and their verification reports on important issues of the national economy during the first day of their first extraordinary session on January 4.

The 15th National Assembly convened its first extraordinary session in Hà Nội on Tuesday 

The 15th National Assembly's first extraordinary session opened in Hanoi on January 4 and was connected via videoconference to 62 delegations of NA deputies in centrally-run provinces and cities, excluding the capital city's delegation who attended the sitting in-person.