Lang Son required to better investment environment
Lang Son required to better investment environment

National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has asked the northern mountainous province of Lang Son to improve its investment environment to attract more investors and focus on upgrading infrastructure, particularly transport, to promote its border economic strength. 

Lang Son required to better investment environment
Poverty reduction – Central Highlands’ main political task: PM
Poverty reduction – Central Highlands’ main political task: PM

Poverty alleviation remains a main political task of the Central Highlands region, stated Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a working session with the Central Highlands Steering Committee in Dak Lak province on June 20. 

Poverty reduction – Central Highlands’ main political task: PM
Greater attention given to Central Highlands
Greater attention given to Central Highlands

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc reiterated the Party and government’s attention to the Central Highlands’ socio-economic development and improving living conditions of the Central Highlanders. 

Greater attention given to Central Highlands
PM works with Ben Tre province
PM works with Ben Tre province

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and officials from Ben Tre province met in the government office to review social economic development and measures to cope with saline intrusion.

PM works with Ben Tre province
Ba Ria-Vung Tau must push ahead with sustainable development
Ba Ria-Vung Tau must push ahead with sustainable development

Ba Ria – Vung Tau province must press on with sustainable development and focus on sea-based economic activities and marine sovereignty protection, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said. 

Ba Ria-Vung Tau must push ahead with sustainable development
PM urges Hanoi to remove barriers for stronger development
PM urges Hanoi to remove barriers for stronger development

Hanoi should take strong measures to remove barriers which inhibit the city from developing and integrating, stressed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

PM urges Hanoi to remove barriers for stronger development
NA Standing Committee concludes 49th session
NA Standing Committee concludes 49th session

VOV.VN - On June 15, the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up its 49th session in Hanoi.

NA Standing Committee concludes 49th session
Hanoi: New People’s Council opens first session, elects key positions
Hanoi: New People’s Council opens first session, elects key positions

The new People’s Council of Hanoi (15th tenure) convened the first session on June 14 to elect key officials who will lead the capital city from now to 2021. 

Hanoi: New People’s Council opens first session, elects key positions
Election results reflect voters’ aspirations
Election results reflect voters’ aspirations

VOV.VN - The elections of deputies to the 14th National Assembly and People’s Councils for the 2016-2021 term were successful with voter turnout of 99.35% and a higher number of deputies holding BA or post-graduate certificates.

Election results reflect voters’ aspirations
Perfect development planning critical to Can Tho: PM
Perfect development planning critical to Can Tho: PM

The completion of the development planning is the focal task of Can Tho city as it is the capital of the whole Mekong Delta region but also the one most vulnerable to climate change among the big cities in Vietnam. 

Perfect development planning critical to Can Tho: PM
NA Standing Committee convenes 49th session
NA Standing Committee convenes 49th session

VOV.VN - The Standing Committee of the 13th National Assembly on June 13 opened its 49th session to make preparations for the 1st meeting of the 14th National Assembly.

NA Standing Committee convenes 49th session
PM advises Dong Thap to diversify agricultural investments
PM advises Dong Thap to diversify agricultural investments

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged Dong Thap province to mobilise and boost diversification of investment models in agricultural development.

PM advises Dong Thap to diversify agricultural investments
A democratic, lawful election
A democratic, lawful election

VOV.VN - Final results of the election for the 14th National Assembly and People’s Councils have been announced. The May 22 election was assessed as democratic and lawful.

A democratic, lawful election
Government asks ministries to stay firm on set goals
Government asks ministries to stay firm on set goals

The Government has issued a resolution on its May meeting, requesting ministries, agencies and localities to be determined in actions to achieve the set targets. 

Government asks ministries to stay firm on set goals
496 candidates elected to 14th NA
496 candidates elected to 14th NA

VOV.VN -  496 out of 870 candidates were elected to the 14th National Assembly, the National Electoral Council announced at a June 9 press conference in Hanoi

496 candidates elected to 14th NA
PM works with Nam Dinh province
PM works with Nam Dinh province

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc called for greater efforts to develop Nam Dinh into a hub of the Red River southern delta during a June 8 working session with provincial authorities.

PM works with Nam Dinh province
List of NA deputies to be revealed on June 9
List of NA deputies to be revealed on June 9

Outcomes of the election of deputies to the 14th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils for the 2016-2021 tenure are scheduled to be publicised at a press conference on June 9.

List of NA deputies to be revealed on June 9
NA Standing Committee to scrutinise lawmaking in 2017
NA Standing Committee to scrutinise lawmaking in 2017

The Standing Committee of the 13th National Assembly (NA) will convene its 49th session in Hanoi on June 13-15, scrutinising the legislature’s 2017 law and ordinance building programme. 

NA Standing Committee to scrutinise lawmaking in 2017
PM requires better government performance
PM requires better government performance

The Prime Minister has asked Cabinet members and officials from relevant agencies to seriously observe the Government’s working regulations to achieve sounder operations, performances and coordination.

PM requires better government performance
Electoral subcommittee reviews performance, election results
Electoral subcommittee reviews performance, election results

The National Election Council’s Subcommittee for Personnel and Settlement of Complaints and Denunciation reviewed its performance and outlined new tasks in a meeting in Hanoi on June 7.

Electoral subcommittee reviews performance, election results
President Ho Chi Minh’s vision honoured in HCM City
President Ho Chi Minh’s vision honoured in HCM City

President Ho Chi Minh’s vision and ideology were honoured at a conference in HCM City, on June 3, on the 105th anniversary of his departure abroad to seek ways to save the country (June 5) and the 40th anniversary of the day Saigon-Gia Dinh was renamed HCM City. 

President Ho Chi Minh’s vision honoured in HCM City
Party chief urges Tay Ninh to tap potential
Party chief urges Tay Ninh to tap potential

The southern province of Tay Ninh needs proper strategies to fully tap its potential and advantages for socio-economic development, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said during his working trip to the locality on June 4-5.

Party chief urges Tay Ninh to tap potential
In quest of a bright future for the Vietnamese nation
In quest of a bright future for the Vietnamese nation

VOV.VN - 105 years ago, President Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam on a trip abroad to seek a path for national liberation. He went with nothing but a great patriotism and returned with a bright future for the Vietnamese nation.

In quest of a bright future for the Vietnamese nation
PM directs building socio-economic development plan for 2017
PM directs building socio-economic development plan for 2017

The Prime Minister has issued Directive No.21 requesting ministries, ministerial-level and centrally-run agencies, as well as localities, economic groups, and State-owned enterprises to build a socio-economic development plan and State budget estimate for 2017. 

PM directs building socio-economic development plan for 2017
War Veterans’ Association – trustworthy mainstay of Party
War Veterans’ Association – trustworthy mainstay of Party

The Vietnam War Veterans’ Association (VWVA) is the trustworthy mainstay of the Party, State and people, said Truong Thi Mai, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation.

War Veterans’ Association – trustworthy mainstay of Party
Macro-economic stability needed for sustainable development: PM
Macro-economic stability needed for sustainable development: PM

The Government’s point of view in steering socio-economic affairs is to persistently pursue the goal of macro-economic stability to create foundations for sustainable development while synchronously implementing measures to boost growth, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 

Macro-economic stability needed for sustainable development: PM
Major outcomes of the National Assembly election
Major outcomes of the National Assembly election

(VOV) - The election of the 14th National Assembly and People’s Councils for the 2016-2020 term concluded successfully. It was organized with democratic with reforms to promote people’s right.

Major outcomes of the National Assembly election
Cabinet meeting prioritises institution-related issues
Cabinet meeting prioritises institution-related issues

The completion of institutions, not socio-economic issues as usual, was the first issue to be discussed at the Cabinet’s regular meeting which was opened in Hanoi on June 1. 

Cabinet meeting prioritises institution-related issues
PM urges action to hit development objectives
PM urges action to hit development objectives

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged ministers, particularly newly-appointed ones, to prepare action plans that improve their management to fulfill socio-economic development targets.

PM urges action to hit development objectives
Making Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality a spiritual foundation for social life
Making Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality a spiritual foundation for social life

VOV.VN - On May 15, the Party Politburo issued Directive No 5 on “Intensifying the study and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and style”. It aims to make the campaign more effective and applicable to the life of every Vietnamese. 

Making Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality a spiritual foundation for social life
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