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.

(VOV) -President Truong Tan Sang and National Assembly deputies of Ho Chi Minh City on June 28 met with local entrepreneurs to listen to their opinions on business facts, particularly amid the demand for both safeguarding the national sovereignty in the East Sea and shoring up the economy.

President Truong Tan Sang on June 26 met with voters in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, to inform them of the outcomes of the freshly-ended 7th session of the 13th National Assembly. 

The role of the Party Central Committee’s Theory Council is increasingly growing through its active participation in scientific researches on political theories and in protecting the Party’s viewpoints and policies. 

(VOV) - State President Truong Tan Sang has emphasized Vietnam’s determination to realise the target of not being dependent on any country at a meeting with HCM City’s Fatherland Front Committee and voters in HCM City on June 26. 

Voters nationwide have expressed their confidence and support of the Party and State’s stance on safeguarding territorial sovereignty by peaceful and flexible means in line with international law during their meetings with National Assembly deputies. 

(VOV) - Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh and his Lao counterpart Thongloun Sisoulith cut the red ribbon, inaugurating the La Lay International Border Gate on June 25.

Meeting with President Truong Tan Sang in Hanoi on June 24, owners of 75 innovative firms asked for the State support in hi-tech application, which will help them reach out to more markets at home and abroad. 

The National Assembly (NA) has received public praise for its work during the first-ended seventh session, Vice Chairman of the NA Office Nguyen Sy Dung told the media in Hanoi on June 24, shortly after the NA session wrapped up earlier the same day. 

National Assembly deputies agreed on June 23 that revisions to the Investment Law should bolster investors' confidence through further cuts in red tape related to investment activities.

National Assembly (NA) deputies adopted the Law on Public Investment and the revised Construction Law at a plenary session on June 18. 

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has decided to instate Vietnamese ambassador to Cambodia Thach Du as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.