(VOV) - It is imperative to strictly control market prices to ensure balanced supply and demand of goods as the traditional lunar New Year festival (Tet) nears.

(VOV) - The capital city needs accelerate administrative reform, improve the investment environment, spur economic growth, ensure social welfare and improve the operational efficiency of People’s Councils at all levels.

(VOV) - A high-ranking Hanoi municipal official delegation led by Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi concluded its 11-day tour of four European countries on November 29.

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked the Ministry of Justice to work closely with relevant agencies to improve how laws regulating documents are enforced.

(VOV) - The 13th National Assembly’s (NA) sixth session has been hailed as historic, ushering in a new period of national construction and defence.

(VOV) - With 97.59% of votes in favour, the National Assembly passed the amended 1992 Constitution at its plenary session in Hanoi on November 28.

(VOV) - Vietnam will host the 2014 United Nations Day of Vesak themed "Buddhist Perspective towards Achieving the United Nations Millennium Development Goals"at Bai Dinh Pagoda in Ninh Binh province from May 7-11 next year.

(VOV) - A delegation from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) led by its vice chairman Liu Xiaofeng has visited Vietnam.

More Cabinet members went before the National Assembly on November 20 to answer deputies’ queries on a wide range of topics.

(VOV) - President Truong Tan Sang has praised the Vietnam Committee for Catholic Solidarity  (VCCS), at the sixth congress of Vietnamese Catholic representatives, which took place in Hanoi on November 20.

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat was in the hot seat over the sector's poor management during a Q&A legislative session on November 19.

(VOV) - President Truong Tan Sang has held a November 16 meeting with 104 teachers honoured for their outstanding service during the 2008–2013 period.

(VOV) -National Assembly (NA) deputies meeting on November 16 discussed the legislature’s personnel and debated a number of draft laws.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hosted a November 15 meeting of the Central Steering Committee on Corruption Prevention and Control in Hanoi.

National Assembly (NA) deputies have adopted a resolution on the allocation of the 2014 State budget, after the proposal received 87.75 percent of the votes at the November 15 morning sitting.

(VOV) - The National Assembly (NA) on November 13 approved the Prime Minister’s appointment of Vu Duc Dam and Pham Binh Minh as two new deputy prime ministers.

The National Assembly (NA) on November 12 approved a resolution on the adjustments to the 2013 budget estimate and planned budget spending for 2014.

(VOV) - Most National Assembly deputies agree the number of corruption cases brought before the public’s eye is merely a drop in the ocean and current anti-corruption measures are not strict enough to serve as effective deterrents.

More attention from authorities will reduce citizen complaints from citizens, legislators agreed at a discussion on October 28.

(VOV) - The year-end session of the National Assembly opened in Hanoi on October 21 to examine what Vietnam has done during the past three years and set orientations for the last two years of the 2011-2015 development plan.

(VOV) -The sixth session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) is expected to make major decisions on many important national issues.

(VOV) - The Vietnam-Poland Friendship Association (VPFA) held its third congress in Hanoi on October 19, electing a new 48-member executive board led by incoming Chairman and Former Natural Resources and Environment Minister Pham Khoi Nguyen.

The Air Defence-Air Force takes on a heavy responsibility defending national independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, seas and islands and the socialist country in the wake of a changing world.

Vice President Nguyen Thi Doan on October 16 received gemologists from 23 countries attending the 33rd International Gemological Conference (IGC 33) in Hanoi. 

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on October 16 met voters in Haiphong city’s Vinh Bao district in preparation for the upcoming sixth National Assembly session. 

(VOV) - President Truong Tan Sang has hailed Vietnamese farmers’ enormous contributions to national construction and development, their innovations in labour and production, and their role in building new rural areas.

A majority of National Assembly Standing Committee deputies hailed the policy of stabilising the macro-economy and curbing inflation as appropriate at their 22nd session in Hanoi on October 11.

President Truong Tan Sang underscored the Party and State’s consistent policy of global economic integration, saying that only an open-door strategy can stimulate development.

The National Assembly needs to intensify supervision of the implementation of socio-economic tasks, the fight against corruption and the settlement of social problems.

The 22nd session of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee opened in Hanoi on October 10 with a wide range of issues on its agenda.