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. 

The Khmer ethnic minority community in the southern province of Bac Lieu are closely watching the developments in the East Sea as China is illegally placing its oil rig in Vietnam’s waters.

(VOV) - The Central Steering Committee for Anti-corruption has proposed establishing four working teams to look into notorious graft scandals in 8 localities in the remaining months of the year.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has signed a resolution on regular government meeting for June which focuses on utmost efforts to protect national sovereignty and ensure political security, social order and safety. 

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Council on July 8 opened its 14th working session, with a focus on outlining measures to reach its socio-economic development goals in the remaining months of 2014.

The increasing complexity of crimes, particularly corruption and drug cases, requires the procuracy sector and the political system as a whole to take more drastic measures to handle, President Truong Tan Sang has said. 

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has underscored the need to effectively implement ethnic policies and ethnic affairs of the Party and State’s strategic issues at a working session with the National Assembly (NA) Ethnic Council and the Government Committee for Ethnic Affairs on July 8.

Voters in various localities have voiced their strong support for Party and State guidelines on peaceful and amicable settlement of the East Sea disputes with China. 

(VOV) - A Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) delegation led by Vice Chairman Keta Koong Bun Mi is on six-day working visit to Vietnam within the framework of a cooperative agreement on religious affairs.

(VOV) - On July 4, the Ho Chi Minh City Central Party Committee convened its 18th Conference with Politburo member and Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Le Than Hai in the chair.

(VOV) -National Assembly (NA) Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung met with voters in Ha Tinh province’s Huong Khe district’s Huong Khe district on July 2 to inform about the results of the recent session of the 13th legislature.

Voters in Hanoi’s Ba Dinh, Tay Ho and Hoan Kiem districts paid special attention to the country’s major issues, including the national sovereignty over the sea and islands, and the prevention of corruption, at meetings with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on June 30 and July 1.

The government’s regular meeting concluded on July 1 after two days of sitting, giving comments to the country’s socio-economic, security-defence and external relations performance in June and the first six months of this year, and drawing out directions for the rest of the year. 

(VOV) - State President Truong Tan Sang on July 1 paid a visit to Vietnam’s coast guard and fisheries surveillance forces at the Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG)’s information centre in Hanoi.

(VOV) - Central Quang Ngai province on July 1 hosted an exhibition of historical evidence proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes.

(VOV) - Vietnam should continue to underscore its opposition to China’s illegal actions, persisting in using all possible peaceful measures in line with international law to resolutely defend sea and island sovereignty.