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.

(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.

(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.

President Truong Tan Sang had a meeting in Hanoi on July 28 with 85 outstanding chairpersons of grassroots trade unions across Vietnam, highlighting their major responsibility for protecting workers’ legitimate rights and interests amid the country’s international integration.

(VOV) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked Vietnamese diplomats to pay more attention to Party external affairs, and people-to-people diplomacy in all aspects including politics, economics and culture to promote the country’s image.

President Truong Tan Sang had working visits to island commune of Ngoc Vung, and island district Co To to inspect socio-economic, national defence and security tasks of Quang Ninh province on July 26. 

(VOV) - A high-level Party and State delegation on July 25 laid a wreath and offered incense to commemorate fallen soldiers at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs on Bac Son street.

(VOV) - State President Truong Tan Sang on July 23 visited Hoa Lo Prison (Maison Centrale) relic and met with revolutionaries who were detained and tortured there in the 1930-1954 period.

President Truong Tan Sang has told authorities of Hai Phong city to arrange its network of vocational schools along with its colleges and universities to improve the quality of human resources to aid its economic model shifting and integration.

(VOV) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 18 held a ceremony in Hanoi to mark the signing of the Geneva Agreement 60 years ago, on cessation of hostilities in Vietnam.

The National Assembly (NA)’s eighth session scheduled for October 20 – November 29 will consider and adopt 30 bills and two draft resolutions, said Chairman of the NA Office Nguyen Hanh Phuc at the closing of the NA Standing Committee’s 29th session in Hanoi on July 16. 

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked northwestern provinces to improve their coordination as it failed to help them tap advantages held by each locality and the entire region for their overall development. 

(VOV) - On July 14, State President Truong Tan Sang received war veterans from Division 356 who were assigned to defend the northern border in Thanh Thuy commune, Vi Xuyen district, Ha Giang province 30 years ago. 

(VOV) -The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its 29th session in Hanoi on July 14 with NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung in the chair.

Law building will top the agenda of the 29th session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee, which is scheduled to open in Hanoi on July 14. 

(VOV) -Friends and family members of the 18 soldiers who perished in the tragic helicopter crash several days ago gathered in Hanoi in the early morning hours of July 11 to pay their respects.

The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of Vietnam held a working session with the Standing Board of the Party Committee of central Thua Thien-Hue province in Hanoi on July 10 to review the five-year implementation of its Conclusion 48 on developing the province and Hue city till 2020. 

The State President’s Office on July 10 held a press conference to announce new laws and a resolution that were approved during the seventh session of the 13th National Assembly in late June.