PM Dung urges high-ranking military staff training 
PM Dung urges high-ranking military staff training 

(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.

PM Dung urges high-ranking military staff training 
Party Chief calls for efforts to fine-tune market economy
Party Chief calls for efforts to fine-tune market economy

(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.

Party Chief calls for efforts to fine-tune market economy
General Department of Techniques celebrates Traditional Day
General Department of Techniques celebrates Traditional Day

(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. 

General Department of Techniques celebrates Traditional Day
President Sang visits Quang Tri province
President Sang visits Quang Tri province

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. 

President Sang visits Quang Tri province
Full time NA deputies debate six draft laws
Full time NA deputies debate six draft laws

(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.

Full time NA deputies debate six draft laws
Central Highlands urged to boost relations with Laos, Cambodia
Central Highlands urged to boost relations with Laos, Cambodia

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.

Central Highlands urged to boost relations with Laos, Cambodia
President tours Kien Giang’s islands
President tours Kien Giang’s islands

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. 

President tours Kien Giang’s islands
Senior leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh
Senior leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh

(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.

Senior leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh
Incense offering for late President on National Day
Incense offering for late President on 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).

Incense offering for late President on National Day
Party leader visits former revolutionary base
Party leader visits former revolutionary base

(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. 

Party leader visits former revolutionary base
NA Party committee praised for judicial reform efforts
NA Party committee praised for judicial reform efforts

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.

NA Party committee praised for judicial reform efforts
Party leader visits Ha Giang
Party leader visits Ha Giang

(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.

Party leader visits Ha Giang
Seminar sheds light on Ho Chi Minh’s testament
Seminar sheds light on Ho Chi Minh’s testament

(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.

Seminar sheds light on Ho Chi Minh’s testament
Religious dignitaries lauded for national security protection
Religious dignitaries lauded for national security protection

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. 

Religious dignitaries lauded for national security protection
Tribute service paid to Vo Thi Thang
Tribute service paid to Vo Thi Thang

(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. 

Tribute service paid to Vo Thi Thang
Party prepares personnel for upcoming National Congress
Party prepares personnel for upcoming National Congress

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. 

Party prepares personnel for upcoming National Congress
Vietnam condemns China’s inhuman acts against fishermen
Vietnam condemns China’s inhuman acts against fishermen

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

Vietnam condemns China’s inhuman acts against fishermen
August Revolution and its current values
August Revolution and its current values

(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.

August Revolution and its current values
Party chief asks Hau Giang to develop hi-tech agriculture
Party chief asks Hau Giang to develop hi-tech agriculture

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.

Party chief asks Hau Giang to develop hi-tech agriculture
Party, State leaders pay tribute to late President
Party, State leaders pay tribute to late President

(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.

Party, State leaders pay tribute to late President
Party leader tells Can Tho to drive growth
Party leader tells Can Tho to drive growth

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. 

Party leader tells Can Tho to drive growth
NA Standing Committee convenes for 30th session
NA Standing Committee convenes for 30th session

(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.

NA Standing Committee convenes for 30th session
Central Theoretical Council holds its 12th session
Central Theoretical Council holds its 12th session

(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.

Central Theoretical Council holds its 12th session
First victory of Vietnam People’s Navy celebrated
First victory of Vietnam People’s Navy celebrated

(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.

First victory of Vietnam People’s Navy celebrated
Party leader visits Ha Nam province
Party leader visits Ha Nam province

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. 

Party leader visits Ha Nam province
Lawyers’ role should be enhanced to avoid unjust rulings
Lawyers’ role should be enhanced to avoid unjust rulings

(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.

Lawyers’ role should be enhanced to avoid unjust rulings
Defence Academy urged to develop training quality standard
Defence Academy urged to develop training quality standard

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. 

Defence Academy urged to develop training quality standard
President works with Public Security Ministry
President works with Public Security Ministry

(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.

President works with Public Security Ministry
No adjustments to targets for 2014: PM Dung
No adjustments to targets for 2014: PM Dung

(VOV) - At a monthly Cabinet meeting which opened in Hanoi on July 30, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked Cabinet members to examine the state of the economy and the government’s performance in the past seven months and outlook for the remaining five months, without adjusting targets set for 2014.

No adjustments to targets for 2014: PM Dung
Vietnam well on course for IPU 132 meeting
Vietnam well on course for IPU 132 meeting

(VOV) - Preparations are now in hand for the 132nd Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly to be held in Hanoi from March 28 to April 1, 2015, according to the State-level steering board for the regional gathering.

Vietnam well on course for IPU 132 meeting
Politics
Places