(VOV) - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong held a working session with the Standing Board of the Theory Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee in Hanoi on December 31.

(VOV) - The northern mountainous province of Bac Kan needs to push socio-economic development, ensure national security and defence and reduce poverty.

(VOV) - A delegation of Party, State, and Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) leaders have laid floral tributes at the mausoleum of the late President Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi to commemorate 1972 Hanoi-Dien Bien Phu air battle victory on December 29.

(VOV) - President Truong Tan Sang met air force and air defence veterans as part of commemorations for the 40th anniversary of the Hanoi-Dien Bien Phu air victory on December 28.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court sustained the original custodial sentences given to Nguyen Van Hai and Ta Phong Tan for “conducting propaganda against the State of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam” at an appeal court on December 28.

(VOV) - HCM City Party Committee Secretary Le Thanh Hai on December 28 received Choummaly Sayasone, Party General Secretary and President of Laos, who was visiting Vietnam.

(VOV) - Radio the Voice of Vietnam has selected the most noteworthy domestic events of 2012

(VOV) - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung called for greater efforts to stabilize the macroeconomy in 2013, keep inflation at 6 percent and achieve higher economic growth than in 2012.

(VOV) - The Party and State always support religious and belief freedom and create all conditions for religions to operate in the country according to the law.

(VOV) - Vietnam is willing to share experience and help enhance competence of staff of the Lao Supreme People’s Court, President Truong Tan Sang has said.