The Committee for Foreign Non-Governmental Organisation Affairs (COMINGO) on March 23 held an online conference to review the implementation of its tasks in 2021 and discuss its orientations this year.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on March 23 passed the resolution on environmental protection tax rates on petroleum, oil and lubricants, which will take effect from April 1 till December 31, 2022.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung, head of the Vietnam-Laos Cooperation Committee, called for the countries’ stronger connections in key areas during talks with his counterpart Khamjane Vongphosy, who is also head of the Laos-Vietnam Cooperation Committee, in Vientiane on March 21.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 18 chaired a meeting the Steering Committee on reviewing the 10-year implementation of the Resolution of the eighth plenary session of the 11th Party Central Committee on the national protection strategy in the new situation.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee considered the supplementation of the State budget estimate of foreign non-refundable aid (under the task of recurrent expenditure) in 2020 as well as that in 2021 during its ongoing ninth session on March 15 morning.

VOV.VN - Russia aspires to bolster co-operation with Vietnamese localities, with the top priority being given to Ho Chi Minh City.

The People’s Committee of Quang Tri has approved a Norwegian-funded project on capacity building for this central province’s mine action centre during 2022 - 2025.

The State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese (OV) Affairs (SCOV) on March 11 sent an open letter asking Vietnamese people’s associations in some European countries to continue helping with the evacuation of those from Ukraine.

VOV.VN - Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien and Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Tran Hong Ha will be questioned over issues of people concern at the ongoing ninth session of the National Assembly Standing Committee.

The Vietnam-Japan extensive strategic partnership is growing strongly and practically in many fields, said Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong while receiving Takebe Tsutomu, Special Advisor to the Japan - Vietnam Friendship Parliamentary Alliance.