Prime Minister advises An Giang to focus on farming, tourism
Prime Minister advises An Giang to focus on farming, tourism

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc named organic farming and tourism as potential lucrative business for An Giang while working with the locality’s authorities in Hanoi on November 17.

Prime Minister advises An Giang to focus on farming, tourism
Prime Minister takes floor at NA hearing
Prime Minister takes floor at NA hearing

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc was the last to appear at the National Assembly (NA)’s Question & Answer session on November 17, clearing up a range of issues of public concern. 

Prime Minister takes floor at NA hearing
Seawater in central region safe: Minister
Seawater in central region safe: Minister

The sea in the central region, which was earlier polluted by toxic wastewater released by a Taiwanese-owned steel company, is now safe for tourism and aquaculture. 

Seawater in central region safe: Minister
Minister pledges to work harder to improve human resource quality
Minister pledges to work harder to improve human resource quality

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha clarified various issues of voters’ concern, including measures to enhance education and training quality at the November 16 National Assembly hearing. 

Minister pledges to work harder to improve human resource quality
More ministers appear in hearings at National Assembly
More ministers appear in hearings at National Assembly

Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha and Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan were at the centre of the hearing at the National Assembly on November 16, which was broadcast live on national TV and radio. 

More ministers appear in hearings at National Assembly
Home affairs minister admits flaws in personnel work
Home affairs minister admits flaws in personnel work

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan took the floor at the question & answer session of the 14th National Assembly’s second session in Hanoi on November 16, clarifying issues of public concern regarding personnel work. 

Home affairs minister admits flaws in personnel work
Education minister questioned at NA
Education minister questioned at NA

The progress and solutions to implementing a project to teach foreign languages in the national education system through to 2020 was among major issues raised by deputies at the 13th NA for Minister of Education and Training Phung Xuan Nha during the Q &A session on November 16. 

Education minister questioned at NA
Top legislator orders measures to tackle environmental pollution
Top legislator orders measures to tackle environmental pollution

Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan requested the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to put forth effective measures to address environmental pollution, during the Q&A session of the 14th parliament’s ongoing second session in Hanoi on November 16.

Top legislator orders measures to tackle environmental pollution
Voters laud Cabinet members’ straightforward answers at NA
Voters laud Cabinet members’ straightforward answers at NA

Voters nationwide appreciated the answers of Cabinet members during question-and-answer sessions of the ongoing second plenum of the 14th National Assembly which were broadcast live on television and radio. 

Voters laud Cabinet members’ straightforward answers at NA
Mixed views on industry minister’s answers to questions at NA session
Mixed views on industry minister’s answers to questions at NA session

Voters nationwide have had mixed opinions on Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh’s answers to questions about pressing issues under his remit that were raised by National Assembly (NA) deputies on November 15. 

Mixed views on industry minister’s answers to questions at NA session
Industry, environment-related problems heat up Q&A session
Industry, environment-related problems heat up Q&A session

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha were grilled about issues within their remit by National Assembly (NA) deputies on November 15. 

Industry, environment-related problems heat up Q&A session
Minister of Industry and Trade first to be questioned by NA
Minister of Industry and Trade first to be questioned by NA

Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh was the first Cabinet member to go before the National Assembly on November 15 to answer questions about issues under his charge.

Minister of Industry and Trade first to be questioned by NA
Voters’ requests receive timely responses: Ombudsman’s report
Voters’ requests receive timely responses: Ombudsman’s report

All 914 questions that voters sent to the 13th National Assembly have been answered by authorised agencies, according to a report by head of the NA Ombudsman Committee Nguyen Thanh Hai.

Voters’ requests receive timely responses: Ombudsman’s report
Great national unity festival
Great national unity festival

VOV.VN - Vietnam will celebrate its great national unity festival on November 18. Activities are underway around Vietnam to tighten the bonds between neighbors, villages, and communities and promote national unity.

Great national unity festival
NA approves resolution on central budget allocation
NA approves resolution on central budget allocation

Lawmakers voted to approve a resolution on the allocation of central budget in 2017 during the ongoing second session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 14.

NA approves resolution on central budget allocation
Government drafts thrift practice, wastefulness prevention plan
Government drafts thrift practice, wastefulness prevention plan

The Ministry of Finance is drafting a Government’s decision on a master plan for practising thrift and preventing wastefulness for the 2016-2020 period, with specific regulations on economical spending in some budget-using areas.

Government drafts thrift practice, wastefulness prevention plan
NA passes resolution on State budget allocation for 2017
NA passes resolution on State budget allocation for 2017

Deputies adopted a resolution on State budget allocation for 2017 with 82.15 percent of approval votes during the ongoing second session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 14. 

NA passes resolution on State budget allocation for 2017
14th NA: First hearing begins on November 15
14th NA: First hearing begins on November 15

The 14th National Assembly is slated to begin Question & Answer session on November 15, which will be broadcast live on national television and radio. 

14th NA: First hearing begins on November 15
Vietnam’s development resources lay around the globe: PM says
Vietnam’s development resources lay around the globe: PM says

Vietnam’s development potential and resources lay not only in the S-shaped country but also in many other places around the globe, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said, implying Vietnamese expatriates who attended a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on November 12. 

Vietnam’s development resources lay around the globe: PM says
NA discusses Law on Technology Transfer, endorses State budget plan
NA discusses Law on Technology Transfer, endorses State budget plan

VOV.VN - Draft laws on revising the Technology Transfer and Railway laws topped the National Assembly’s agenda on November 11.

NA discusses Law on Technology Transfer, endorses State budget plan
Four ministers to go before National Assembly for hearings
Four ministers to go before National Assembly for hearings

Ministers of Industry and Trade, Natural Resources and Environment, Education and Training, and Home Affairs will appear at the National Assembly (NA)’s question and answer session which is scheduled to last two and a half days from November 15-17.

Four ministers to go before National Assembly for hearings
Investigators asked to uncover economic, corruption cases
Investigators asked to uncover economic, corruption cases

Investigator should focus on bringing into light major economic and corruption cases that have caught public concerns, President Tran Dai Quang said.

Investigators asked to uncover economic, corruption cases
Stronger decentralisation hoped to stimulate development in HCM City
Stronger decentralisation hoped to stimulate development in HCM City

Prime Minster Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s decision to pilot stronger decentralisation and authorisation for Ho Chi Minh City is expected to help the locality become a modern and civilised city with good life quality. 

Stronger decentralisation hoped to stimulate development in HCM City
NA plans nearly US$90 billion for five-year public investment
NA plans nearly US$90 billion for five-year public investment

With 89.88 percent of votes, the National Assembly on November 10 approved a resolution on a medium-term public investment plan for the 2016-2020 period, which stipulates a maximum of US$89.56 billion of five-year spending.

NA plans nearly US$90 billion for five-year public investment
Draft laws, resolutions discussed at NA’s second session
Draft laws, resolutions discussed at NA’s second session

A number of draft laws and resolutions were discussed and adopted at the ongoing second session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 8. 

Draft laws, resolutions discussed at NA’s second session
National Assembly adopts five-year financial plan
National Assembly adopts five-year financial plan

Legislators approved a resolution on the five-year financial plan with 86.64% of “yes” votes during the ongoing second meeting of the 14th National Assembly on November 9. 

National Assembly adopts five-year financial plan
NA sets overspending below 3.5 pct of GDP by 2020
NA sets overspending below 3.5 pct of GDP by 2020

State budget overspending will be reduced to below 3.5 percent of GDP by 2020, while public debts, government debts and the country’s foreign debts will not exceed 65 percent, 54 percent and 50 percent, respectively, of GDP annually in 2016-2020. 

NA sets overspending below 3.5 pct of GDP by 2020
Legislators debate draft laws on tourism, SME support
Legislators debate draft laws on tourism, SME support

A number of draft laws were discussed at the ongoing second session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on November 8.

Legislators debate draft laws on tourism, SME support
Draft irrigation law promises better life for farmers
Draft irrigation law promises better life for farmers

The draft law on irrigation presented at the second meeting of the 14th National Assembly is expected to ensure requirements of sustainable socio-economic development, thus helping improve the material and spiritual life of people, including farmers.

Draft irrigation law promises better life for farmers
Revised law should facilitate tourism’s transformation to key industry
Revised law should facilitate tourism’s transformation to key industry

Tourism should be developed into a spearhead industry, and thus it is necessary to amend the existing tourism law to remove obstacles for the sector’s growth, National Assembly (NA) deputies have said. 

Revised law should facilitate tourism’s transformation to key industry
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