VOV.VN - When the clock stroke midnight on January 21, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a speech, extending lunar New Year greetings to all Vietnamese fellow countrymen nationwide and overseas.

VOV.VN - Last year represented a difficult period for the whole world with numerous challenges, but Vietnam stood firm to weather the storm and record outstanding achievements, paving the way for it to reap new successes in the year ahead.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited doctors of National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Hanoi’s Dong Anh district on January 21 – the last day of the 12th lunar month.

VOV.VN - Leaders of countries, political parties and international organizations have sent greetings to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in celebration of the 2023 New Year and Vietnam’s lunar New Year festival.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh offered incense in tribute to late government leaders Pham Hung, Vo Van Kiet and Phan Van Khai and visited their families in Ho Chi Minh City on January 20, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival - the biggest and longest festival of Vietnamese people in a year.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong offered incense in tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh on January 20 at House 67 inside the Presidential Palace complex in Hanoi ahead of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, the biggest and longest festival of Vietnamese people.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 19 visited a number of police and military units to check their preparedness for the upcoming Lunar New Year festival (Tet) – the biggest traditional event in Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong hosted a meeting with leaders and former leaders of the Party, State, and Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) on January 19 in Hanoi on the threshold of the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, the biggest festival of the year for Vietnamese people.

VOV.VN - A delegation made up of the Party Central Committee, the President, the National Assembly (NA), the Government, and the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee laid wreaths and paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum on January 19 in Hanoi ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

VOV.VN - Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan has held the post of acting State President of Vietnam after the National Assembly approved Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s resignation at an extraordinary session on January 18.

VOV.VN - With a majority of votes in favour, lawmakers approved a resolution dismissing Nguyen Xuan Phuc from his post as State President of Vietnam and member of the National Assembly at an extraordinary session of the legislature on January 18 afternoon.

VOV.VN - The Central Party Committee on January 17 agreed to allow Nguyen Xuan Phuc to stop serving as the country’s President, a member of the Politburo and the committee, and Chairman of the National Defence and Security Council for the 2021 to 2026 term.

VOV.VN - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on January 16 paid a lunar New Year (Tet) visit to Most Venerable Thich Tri Quang, supreme patriarch of the Patronage Council of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha on the occasion of the coming Tet festival.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 16 paid a lunar New Year (Tet) visit and presented gifts to armed forces, families of social policy beneficiaries and needy people in the northern border province of Cao Bang.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has requested more breakthroughs to be made in the fight against corruption in the year ahead so that those masterminding notorious graft scandals will face tough punishments according to the law.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on January 10 paid a visit to the party Committee, administration and people of Thai Nguyen in northern Vietnam in the buildup to the coming lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

VOV.VN - The National Assembly (NA) has voted for the approval of a Resolution on National Master Plan for the 2021-2030 period along a vision to 2050 with a ratio of 449 out of 489 votes in favour, accounting for 90.52% of the total number of NA deputies.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented gifts to workers and families of social policy beneficiaries during a pre-Tet (lunar New Year) visit to the south-central province of Phu Yen on January 8.

The National Assembly (NA) passed a resolution approving Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s proposal on the appointment of two Deputy Prime Ministers at its second extraordinary session in Hanoi on January 5.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung presented a report on the National Master Plan for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, following the opening of the 15th National Assembly’s second extraordinary meeting in Hanoi on January 5.

VOV.VN - National Assembly (NA) deputies on January 5 voted by secret ballot to adopt a resolution approving the dismissal of Deputy Prime Ministers Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam for the 2021 to 2026 term.

VOV.VN - The second extraordinary meeting of the 15th National Assembly opened in Hanoi on January 5, which will consider and decide urgent and necessary issues in order to to promptly meet the requirements of life.

VOV.VN - A senior Party official has requested that the Party’s Central Commission for Internal Affairs make timely recommendations in order to help the Party strictly handle notorious corruption cases in 2023.

The Government will instruct ministries, agencies and localities to implement the 2023 socio-economic development plan with the greatest efforts and strongest determination, Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son said at the Cabinet regular press conference in Hanoi on January 3, citing Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

All opportunities should be optimised to successfully achieve the socio-economic targets set for 2023 and the 2021-2026 tenure, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong said at a teleconference on January 3.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has highlighted the motto of “Solidarity, Discipline - Mettle, Flexibility - Innovation, Creativity - Timeliness, Effectiveness” in order to realise the goals set for 2023.

A teleconference between the Government and the 63 provinces and centrally-run cities opened on January 3 morning to review the 2022 performance and carry out the Party Central Committee’s conclusions and the National Assembly (NA)’s resolution on the socio-economic development plan for 2023.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has on behalf of the Politburo signed Resolution 31 on directions and tasks for Ho Chi Minh City’s development to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

VOV.VN - Deputy Prime Ministers Pham Binh Minh and Vu Duc Dam will no longer hold positions as members of the Party Central Committee for the 2021-2026 tenure.

VOV.VN - Homeland Spring, an annual programme for Vietnamese expatriates ahead of the lunar New Year holiday, is scheduled to take place at the National Convention Centre in Hanoi on January 14, with the participation of approximately 3,000 delegates.