The increasing complexity of crimes, particularly corruption and drug cases, requires the procuracy sector and the political system as a whole to take more drastic measures to handle, President Truong Tan Sang has said.
Voters in various localities have voiced their strong support for Party and State guidelines on peaceful and amicable settlement of the East Sea disputes with China.
More drastic, efficient measures should be done to better balance Hanoi’s sex ratio at birth and ensure gender equality, said a Health Ministry official.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved the content of a project funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) on assisting the Ministry of Health in implementing the National Strategy on Public Health Care.
Vietnam has placed in Group B of the Asian Women's U19 Volleyball Championship, which begins on July 17 in Chinese Taipei.
China on July 7 used up to 110 ships of various types, including four military ships to defend the oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981, which is standing illegally in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, and prevent Vietnamese law enforcement ships from operating in their national waters.
Vice Chairwoman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Bich Ngoc on July 7 suggested cooperation with Japan’s Kagoshima city in services, tourism and farm produce trading at a reception for Kagoshima Mayor Hiroyuki Mori.
Polish scholars attending a seminar at the Almamer University, Warsaw, affirmed Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and decried China’s recent acts in Vietnam’s waters.
Vietnam stands ready to assist Laos in training inspectors, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told visiting Lao President of the Government Inspection Authority Bounthong Chitmani in Hanoi on July 7.
The Sandinista National Liberation Front Party of Nicaragua (FSLN) expects to reinforce cooperation at both central and local levels with Vietnam, Deputy Secretary of the FSLN’s International Relations Department Carlos Fonseca Teran has said.