(VOV) - A Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) delegation visited and extended Lunar New Year (Tet) wishes to the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) on January 22.

Politburo member and Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Le Hong Anh on January 21 paid a pre-Tet visit to officers and soldiers of the Long Khot Border Guard Station in Thai Binh Trung commune, Vinh Hung district, the Mekong Delta province of Long An. 

Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao has attributed the capital’s impressive growth to the enthusiastic contribution of press agencies, especially in the mass mobilisation work. 

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked the Red River Delta province of Thai Binh to strongly develop high-quality agriculture and production connected to processing and sales. 

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung stressed the importance of matching the Government Office’s 2014 working programme with practical realities at a 21 January conference in Hanoi.

The contribution of primeval Buddhism in Vietnam’s human and national development was explored in depth at a symposium in Ho Chi Minh City on January 18 marking the 57 years since it was introduced to the country. 

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has directed the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien to pay attention to socio-economic infrastructure, particularly its transport system in a bid to shed its status as an underdeveloped locality.

The northwestern region needs to strongly advertise its strength and promote trade activities abroad in order to attract foreign investment, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has appreciated development work undertaken by ethnic groups, reiterating that the Party and State attach great importance to ethnic community development.

President Truong Tan Sang has asked the People’ Public Security to raise officers’ awareness of President’s Ho Chi Minh’s teachings.