Anti-corruption committee looks to ramp up efforts in key cases
Anti-corruption committee looks to ramp up efforts in key cases

The Standing Board of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption has urged authorised agencies to step up the fight against corruption and exert greater efforts to finalise the investigation, prosecution, and judgment of eight serious cases which have attracted public concern by the end of this year.

Anti-corruption committee looks to ramp up efforts in key cases
Draft education, architecture laws in focus on May 21
Draft education, architecture laws in focus on May 21

The draft revised Law on Education and the draft Law on Architecture are on top of the agenda of the parliament on May 21.

Draft education, architecture laws in focus on May 21
First statement on NA’s seventh session
First statement on NA’s seventh session

The seventh session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) opened in Hanoi on May 20.

First statement on NA’s seventh session
Prime Minister issues Directive on sustainable development
Prime Minister issues Directive on sustainable development

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed Directive No. 13/CT-TTg on sustainable development on May 20, asserting that sustainable development is a consistent policy of the Party and State of Vietnam.

Prime Minister issues Directive on sustainable development
Deputies discuss adjustments to Law on Insurance Business
Deputies discuss adjustments to Law on Insurance Business

The draft Law on amendments and supplementations to a number of articles of the Law on Insurance Business was put into discussion during the 14th National Assembly’s seventh session on May 20.

Deputies discuss adjustments to Law on Insurance Business
Government, agencies settle 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions of voters: NA report
Government, agencies settle 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions of voters: NA report

The Government and Government agencies have settled 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions that voters submitted to the sixth session of the 14th National Assembly (NA), the NA Standing Committee’s ombudsman board reported at the opening session of the 7th sitting of the 14th NA on May 20.

Government, agencies settle 2,290 out of 2,293 petitions of voters: NA report
Q1’s GDP sees 6.79 percent growth: Government report
Q1’s GDP sees 6.79 percent growth: Government report

Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh presented the Government’s report on the implementation of socio-economic development in the first quarter of 2019 and measures for the remaining months of the year at the opening meeting of the 7th session of the 14th National Assembly on May 20. 

Q1’s GDP sees 6.79 percent growth: Government report
Seventh session of 14th National Assembly begins
Seventh session of 14th National Assembly begins

The 7th session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) opened at the NA Hall in Hanoi at 9 am on May 20 in a ceremony broadcast live on national television and radio.

Seventh session of 14th National Assembly begins
Leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on birth anniversary
Leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on birth anniversary

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, the President, National Assembly, Government and Vietnam Fatherlands Front paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on May 19 on the occasion of the late President’s 129th birthday. 

Leaders pay tribute to President Ho Chi Minh on birth anniversary
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