What the National Assembly (NA) has achieved is partly attributable to its coordination with Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), top legislator Nguyen Sinh Hung said. 

“Gia ra” is the biggest festival in a year for the Cor ethnic minority group, who live mainly in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Tay Tra and Tra Bong districts as they mark the end of a rice crop, traditionally lasting one year.

Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Truong Thi Ngoc Anh presided a meeting in Hanoi on December 29 to launch the front’s tasks on new style rural building for 2015.

President Truong Tan Sang welcomed newly-accredited ambassadors from Bangladesh, Greece and Saudi Arabia who presented the their credentials to the Vietnamese State leader in Hanoi on December 29.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has called for a continued sweeping fight against corruption, with a focus on revising socio-economic management regulations and increasing cooperation among agencies concerned.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has urged all ministries, sectors, and localities to determinedly safeguard national sovereignty as well as a peaceful and stable environment for national development in 2015.

Vietnam should apply a multi-dimensional poverty (MDP) approach to avoid missing out any targeted beneficiaries, according to Deputy Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Trong Dam.

The Vietnam Youth Federation should work to ensure ideology and actions of young people from all classes of society are unified given their development will safeguard the country’s stability and sustainable growth, stated Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

The Government has abolished a regulation requiring foreign teachers to have at least five years of experience in order to work at foreign-invested kindergartens and general education schools as well as facilities offering short-term training courses.

Vietnam Film Studio and its Japanese partner Agro Picture next week wrap up shooting of a feature film based on the biography of a Japanese woman living in Vietnam.