Social policy credit has been a “highlight”, and a “pillar” in the system of policies aimed at alleviating poverty and ensuring social security, meeting the desire of the people, particularly impoverished and disadvantaged groups, over the past decade, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on August 14.

Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and head of its Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung chaired talks with a delegation from the Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) led by General Secretary Paulo Raimundo in Hanoi on August 14.

Vietnamese Consul General in China’s Hong Kong and Macau Le Duc Hanh paid a courtesy visit to Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region Ho Iat Seng on August 13 as part of her first working trip to the region.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 14 stressed law building as a key task for ministries and agencies this month, urging great efforts to complete the draft laws that are slated to be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration and approval at its eighth meeting, scheduled for October.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia Pham Hung Tam on August 14 paid a courtesy visit to Senator Simon Birmingham, the opposition's Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs.

VOV.VN - General Tan Sri Datuk Seri Mohammad bin Ab Rahman, chief of Malaysia’s Defence Force, is currently paying an official visit to Vietnam from August 13 to August 16 at the invitation of Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong, chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA).

VOV.VN - The 78th anniversary of India’s Independence Day was celebrated on August 14 by the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organisations (HUFO) and the Vietnam-India Friendship Association in the city.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed to issue an official dispatch directing ministries, sectors, and localities to effectively implement the Land Law, Housing Law, and Real Estate Business Law, all of which came into force simultaneously on August 1.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired the 26th meeting of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena on August 14 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - The 27th ASEAN Directors-General of Immigration Departments and Heads of Consular Affairs Divisions of Ministries of Foreign Affairs Meeting (DGICM 27) opened on August 14 in Nha Trang city in the southcentral coastal province of Khanh Hoa.

VOV.VN - A delegation of Hanoi, led by Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy secretary of the municipal Party Committee and Chairman of the municipal People's Council, paid a four-day working trip to Argentina from August 11, in an effort to step up the capital’s ties with Argentinean localities.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on August 13 continued to warn Vietnamese citizens not to travel to Lebanon, Iran, and Israel at this time as tensions are escalating in the Middle East.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 13 hosted a reception for Japanese Ambassador Ito Naoki who has just begun his working term in Vietnam.

Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) Sen. Lieut. Gen. Huynh Chien Thang hosted a reception in Hanoi on August 13 for a delegation of the Centre for Military Strategy Studies under the General Command of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces led by its director General Kim Vanna.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception for the new Ambassador of New Zealand, Caroline Beresford, in Hanoi on August 13.

Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on August 13 chaired a meeting of standing members of the sub-committee in charge of drafting documents for the 14th National Party Congress.

Deputy Minister of National Defence Sen. Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Chien on August 13 received a delegation of the National Immigration Administration of China, led by its deputy head Li Junjie, who are paying a working visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Minister of National Defence Gen Phan Van Giang and his Russian counterpart Andrey Removich Belousov on August 13 held talks in Moscow as part of the former’s visit to Russia to attend the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2024”.

VOV.VN - Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan hosted a reception on August 13 in Hanoi reception for Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn and the Thai Royal delegation on the occasion of the Princess's working visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - On the morning of August 13 in Hanoi, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong hosted a reception for Lieutenant General Vongsack Phanthavong, chairman of the National Defence and Security Committee of the NA of the Laos People's Democratic Republic, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

Working delegations of the Defence Ministries of Vietnam and Laos on August 12 inspected preparations for the second Vietnam-Laos Border Defence Friendship Exchange in Moc Chau district of Vietnam’s Son La province and Sop Bao district in Laos’s Houaphanh province.

A monument to the Vietnamese volunteer soldiers participating in the defence of Moscow in the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945) was unveiled at Patriot Park in the suburb of the Russian capital on August 12.

VOV.VN - A high-ranking delegation of the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence led by Minister Gen. Phan Van Giang is attending the International Military-Technical Forum “Army-2024” which kicked off on August 12 at the Patriot Exhibition and Convention Centre in the suburb of Moscow.

VOV.VN - Tanzanian President Samia affirmed her nation’s recognition of the importance of friendly and co-operative ties between Vietnam and Tanzania at a recent reception given to Vietnamese Ambassador to Tanzania Vu Thanh Huyen, who came to present her credentials to President Samia Suluhu Hassan at the Tanzanian Presidential Palace in Dar es Salaam.

VOV.VN - The Vietnam Border Guard High Command and the National Immigration Administration of China held talks over the implementation of an agreement regarding land border management on August 12 in Hanoi.

VOV.VN - Princess of the Kingdom of Thailand Maha Chakri Sirindhorn will pay a working visit to Vietnam from August 13-15 following an invitation of Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan.

A Vietnamese delegation led by Deputy Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Ho An Phong is attending the ASEAN-China Week that opened in the Chinese province of Shanxi on August 12.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee offered opinions on revisions to the draft Law on Geology and Minerals at its 5th thematic session on law building on August 12 morning.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam hosted receptions for the ambassadors of Argentina, Algeria, Germany, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) who came to present their letters of credence in Hanoi on August 12.

Several Vietnamese in the US have expressed their confidence in the homeland’s stability and development under the leadership of State President To Lam who was recently elected as the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee.