(VOV) - National Assembly deputies are scheduled to debate the Law on Sea and Island Natural Resources and Environment in the next few days. Once approved, this new law will create a legal framework for state management of Vietnam’s sea and islands. 

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan paid a visit to the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) in Ho Chi Minh City on May 27 on the occasion of Buddha’s 2559 th birthday . 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has called for the simplification of administrative procedures in the field of natural resources and environment, especially relating to land, to make them more convenient for both people and management agencies. 

High-quality workforce and technological advances are breakthroughs to carry the country forward in the current global integration context, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told a gathering of science-technology intellectuals in Hanoi on May 26. 

Lawmakers discussed several draft revised laws at the ongoing ninth session of the 13th National Assembly on May 26 under the chair of NA Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung. 

(VOV) - The 9th session of the 13th National Assembly focused on ways to complete socio-economic tasks set for 2015. 

National Assembly (NA) deputies continued their plenary session in Hanoi on May 25, discussing a number of revised draft laws and plans, chaired by Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung. 

The World Bank (WB) will provide assistance to the first phase of a project to devise a draft law on ethnic minority affairs.

Reporting to the 13th National Assembly on May 22, Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung stressed the need to revise the Accounting Law to build a complete legal framework that would hold relevant bodies responsible for abiding by international regulations and standards of accounting. 

Major milestones in the Vietnam-Russia Friendship Association’s development over the past 65 years were reviewed at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 23.

More draft laws came under scrutiny of deputies on May 22, the third working day of the ongoing ninth sitting of the 13th National Assembly (NA) in Hanoi. 

Labourers who are ineligible for retirement pensions because they have not made compulsory social insurance payments for the required amount of years may choose to get a one-off lump sum or continue to receive monthly payments if a Government proposal gets approval from the National Assembly later this month.

National Assembly deputies stressed the necessity to continue amending, supplementing and issuing new laws during their discussions on lawmaking in 2015 and 2016 at their 9th session in Hanoi on May 21. 

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, Nguyen Thien Nhan, delivered a report summarising the opinions and proposals of voters across the country at the opening ceremony of the 13th National Assembly’s ninth session in Hanoi on May 20. 

Vietnam enjoyed an encouraging socio-economic performance in 2014 and the first few months of 2015, creating a foundation for the country to achieve its 6.2% economic growth target this year, read a report delivered at the opening session of the 13th National Assembly (NA)’s ninth sitting on May 20. 

(VOV) - The 13th National Assembly (NA) opened its 9th plenary session in Hanoi on May 20 with a focus on making laws relating to the country’s development process. 

(VOV) -The 9th plenary session of the National Assembly is due to open on May 20 and conclude late next month.

A variety of activities were organised on May 17 across the country to mark the 125th birthday anniversary of the late President Ho Chi Minh, founder and first president of modern Vietnam.

(VOV) - President Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts and ethics stay forever in Vietnamese people’s hearts, leading the Vietnam revolution to all victories, said Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

(VOV) - A ceremony was held on May 18 in Phnom Penh by the General Association of Vietnamese Cambodian People celebrating the 125th birth anniversary of late President Ho Chi Minh (May 19).

The armies of Vietnam and China should enhance their comprehensive cooperation, especially border exchanges, to forge closer friendship and solidarity between the two nations, said Vietnamese Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh. 

A delegation of the Party, State, National Assembly and the Vietnam Fatherland Front laid wreaths at President Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum in Hanoi on May 18 on the occasion of the late President’s 125th birthday anniversary (May 19). 

The National Assembly Standing Committee on May 13 gave qualified approval to several reform proposals made by the nation's top prosecutorial agency, the Vietnam Supreme People's Procuracy.

(VOV) - On May 12, National Assembly (NA) deputies debated the draft Civil Code based on opinions given by the public earlier

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has expressed his support to the Chinese province of Yunnan’s proposal to launch a direct flight to Vietnam and build a cross-border economic cooperation zone, a joint project with the northern border province of Lao Cai. 

Vietnamese and Chinese scholars converged in a seminar in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 11 to look at improving Vietnam-China cooperation in the Gulf of Tonkin, where fishery resources are declining due to over-exploitation and pollution. 

(VOV) -Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and a delegation of National Assembly deputies of Hanoi on May 9 met with voters in Ba Dinh district.

The Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations and Ho Chi Minh City’s Vietnam-Russia Friendship Organisation jointly held a ceremony in the city on May 8 to mark Russia’s 70th Victory Day over Fascism (May 9). 

Over 10,000 people across the country paid tribute to General Vo Nguyen Giap at his grave in central Quang Binh province’s Quang Trach district on the 61 st anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu historic victory, widely considered one of his greatest triumphs. 

(VOV) -About 7.5 million people have contributed opinions to the draft revision of the 2005 Civil Code.