(VOV) - The Lao Party, State and people will work closely with the Vietnam Party, State and people to maintain and develop great special ties of solidarity and comprehensive cooperation, said Lao Deputy Prime Minister Somsavath Lengsavad.

Construction on the Parliament House and new Ba Dinh Hall is expected to be completed by October 20, just in time to hold the eighth session of the 13th National Assembly (NA).

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung attended the opening ceremony of the 2014-2015 school year at the Defence Academy in Hanoi on September 16.

(VOV) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged revamping the socialist-oriented market economy as the good way to boost Vietnam’s economic development.

(VOV) - The Defence Ministry’s General Department of Techniques on September 10 hosted a solemn ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of its Traditional Day (1974- 2014) and receiving the Order of Military first class. 

President Truong Tan Sang toured the central province of Quang Tri on September 7-8, where he visited Con Co island district and inspected the new-style rural area building programme in Vinh Thanh commune, Vinh Linh district. 

(VOV) - The 8th session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) opened in Hanoi on September 8 during which full time NA deputies will dilate on six draft laws.

Hoang Binh Quan, head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations, on September 3 asked the Central Highlands to strengthen relations with its neighbours, Laos and Cambodia.

President Truong Tan Sang visited Tho Chau Island commune in Phu Quoc district in the southern coastal province of Kien Giang on September 3 to inspect the locality’s socio-economic and security and defence situation. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese Party and State leaders on September 2 paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum and offered incense at the Monument to fallen soldiers on the occasion of the 69th anniversary of National Day.

(VOV) - An incense-offering ceremony in commemoration of President Ho Chi Minh was held in HCM City on September 1 to mark the 69th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2).

(VOV) - Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong on August 29 visited Tan Trao Special National Historical Relic in the northern province of Tuyen Quang which was seen as the cradle of Vietnam’s revolution in the anti-French resistance war. 

President Truong Tan Sang commended the National Assembly (NA) Party Committee’s efforts to put the Politburo’s implementation strategy for judicial reforms into practice during a working session on August 27 with the committee in Hanoi.

(VOV) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on August 27 visited Binh Vang Industrial Zone in Vi Xuyen district and a number of local businesses as part of his trip to northern Ha Giang province.

(VOV) - The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics on August 27 hosted a symposium reviewing 45 years of carrying out President Ho Chi Minh’s testament.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has called on religious dignitaries to play a greater role in mobilising people to forge a sound security in their residential areas. 

(VOV) Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Ho Chi Minh City Party Organization Secretary Le Thanh Hai on August 23 led a high-level delegation to pay tribute to Vo Thi Thang who rendered great service to the nation at a funeral service in Ho Chi Minh City. 

The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Organisation held a national meeting on August 21 in Ho Chi Minh City to roll out guidelines on personnel work at Party congresses at all levels in preparation for the upcoming 12th National Party Congress. 

(VOV) - Vietnam vehemently opposes China’s inhuman actions against Vietnamese fishing vessels operating legally in Vietnam’s waters. 

(VOV) - Sixty-nine years ago the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh launched a national uprising to wipe out feudalism, overthrow the French colonialists and establish the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the first worker-peasant state in Indochina.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang to develop an agriculture driven by high technology as a way of becoming industrialised.

(VOV) - State President Truong Tan Sang and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on August 15 offered incense commemorating late President Ho Chi Minh at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi.

Can Tho should promote its role as a driving force in the Mekong delta region in developing infrastructure, high-quality human resources, and processing industry, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has said. 

(VOV) - National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung on August 11 chaired the 30th session of the NA Standing Committee with a focus on law making work.

(VOV) -The 12th session of the Central Theoretical Council opened in northern Ninh Binh province on August 6 with a focus on reviewing 30 years of implementing the renewal process (1986-2016) and compiling documents for the 12th National Party Congress.

(VOV) -A grand ceremony honouring the 50th anniversary of the first triumph of the Vietnam People’s Navy in the resistance war against American imperialism was staged in the northern port city of Haiphong on August 4.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on August 2 had a working visit to the northern province of Ha Nam to inspect socio-economic development, new-style rural area building and Party-building work in the locality. 

(VOV) -State President Truong Tan Sang on August 1 emphasized the need to improve the operational efficiency of lawyers’ organizations at a working session with the Vietnam Bar Federation (VBF) in Hanoi.

The National Defence Academy of Vietnam should work harder to further better its training mission, while making more proposals to the Party and State on military, denfence and security matters, National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung has urged. 

(VOV) - President Truong Tan Sang, also Head of the Party Steering Committee for Judicial Reform on July 30 worked with the Ministry of Public Security’s investigation agency on the investigation performance in the first half and devising tasks for the remaining months of this year.