The National Assembly Committee for Social Affairs convened its 14th plenary session in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on March 2 to prepare for the upcoming National Assembly sitting. 

VOV.VN -  Preparations are underway throughout the country for the upcoming elections of deputies to the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2016-2021 period.

The 110th birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, a prominent leader of Vietnam’s revolution in the 20th century, was marked at his memorial site in Duc Tan commune, central Quang Ngai province, on March 1. 

The Prime Minister has asked the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee not to put the demonstration bill in the working agenda of the 13th NA’s 11th session slated for late March.

Phan Dinh Trac, a member of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC), was named head of the CPVCC’s Commission for Internal Affairs under a decision by the Politburo. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung suggested Cabinet members raise the national GDP growth rate target from 6.7% to 7% in 2016. 

VOV.VN -Leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Central External Relations Commission signed a cooperative agreement on February 25 in Hanoi.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee wrapped up its 45th session on February 25, during which the committee agreed that the 11th meeting of the 13th NA will open on March 21. 

Lawmakers asked that the Government soon submit the Law on Demonstration for examination at the National Assembly Standing Committee session on February 24

The government and Prime Minister’s working report for the 2011-2016 tenure received strong approval from the National Assembly’s Standing Committee during its ongoing 45 th session in Hanoi on February 24. 

VOV.VN - On February 24, National Assembly (NA) deputies discussed a report by the State Audit agency’s performances in the 13th NA tenure. 

The content and agenda of the 11th meeting of the 13th National Assembly (NA), to be held in late March, were among the talking points of the NA Standing Committee’s 45th session on the morning of February 24. 

Discussions on whether the national health sector should continue to issue permanent pharmaceutical practice certificates for pharmacists or renew the certificates every five years warmed up the National Assembly Standing Committee's session February 23 on a draft amendment to the Law on Pharmacy.

VOV.VN - Preparations for the 14th National Assembly election, set for May 22, are under way. 

VOV.VN - President Truong Tan Sang paid tribute at the Am Linh Tu temple which was built more than 300 years ago to worship the Hoang Sa soldiers who planted markers affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos. 

Holding educational campaigns on the outcomes of the 12th National Party Congress is among the key tasks that the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee has outlined for Party committees at all levels following the Lunar New Year Festival.

The Prime Minister’s Advisory Council for Administrative Procedure Reform gathered on February 19 to review its operation in 2015, and set forth tasks for 2016. 

VOV.VN -On February 18, the National Assembly Standing Committee discussed the revised Law on Journalism. 

Preparing the agenda for the upcoming NA session in March was one of the key tasks of the National Assembly Standing Committee (NASC), according to NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung.

President Truong Tan Sang continued his working visit to northern mountainous localities on February 17 with Cao Bang and Bac Kan provinces the latest destinations. 

Truong Thi Mai, one of the three female members of the 12th tenure Politburo, officially assumed the role of head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission on Mass Mobilisation on February 17. 

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee on February 16 organised its first meeting on the structure, composition and number of candidates to stand for the upcoming 14th National Assembly election.

VOV.VN - The first consultative meeting on the number of candidates nominated by central agencies for the 14th National Assembly election was held in Hanoi on February 16.

Candidate preparations are a key part of preparations for the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Council elections, slated for May 22, said NA Secretary General Nguyen Hanh Phuc. 

VOV.VN - On February 15, the government convened a meeting to discuss the situation during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) and the implementation of this year’s tasks. 

VOV.VN -  The 13th National Assembly Standing Committee will convene its 45th session on February 17.

VOV.VN - Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) President Nguyen Thien Nhan offered incense to President Ho Chi Minh at a memorial site in the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on February 15.

President Truong Tan Sang on February 15 beat the drum to kick off the Tree Planting Festival 2016 in memory of late President Ho Chi Minh. 

President Truong Tan Sang has hailed the significance of the museum of former revolutionary prisoners in Hanoi to educating the public, especially young generations, about the country’s revolutionary traditions. 

Vo Van Thuong, the youngest member of the 12th -tenure Politburo, has been appointed as head of the Party Central Committee’s Information and Education Commission.