Vietnam Today

Key leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly (NA) and Government met in Hanoi on June 12 to review the situation and working results in April and May, and define major tasks in the time ahead.

President To Lam has assumed the chairmanship of the Steering Committee tasked with reviewing theoretical and realistic issues related to Vietnam's four-decade-long socialist-oriented Doi Moi (renewal) process, under a decision of the Politburo.

On June 11, the Pleiku City People's Committee (Gia Lai province) launched a tree planting festival to commemorate and show eternal gratitude to Uncle Ho.

The Da Nang Municipal People's Committee has just issued Decision 1160/QD-UBND approving the reception of 166 wheelchairs for disabled children sponsored by Wheelchairs For Kids of Australia.

The National Assembly (NA)'s Standing Committee convened its 34th session in Hanoi on June 11, expected to touch upon various matters.

During a working program in Cao Bang, on June 10, President To Lam and the central-level delegation came to offer incense and flowers to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh at Uncle Ho Temple in the Pac Bo special national historical relic.

On June 10, the Vietnam Peacekeeping Force (GGHB) at the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) Mission held a ceremony to receive the Medal for the cause of UN peacekeeping for the 2nd Engineer Team and the working team at UNISFA Mission, Abyei area.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 10 asked for more drastic implementation of the project on developing resident data, electronic identification and authentication applications to serve national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period, with a vision to 2030 (Project 06), and for promoting data connection and sharing to serve e-commerce development and improve tax management, thus bringing concrete and practical benefits to people and businesses.

President To Lam held a working session with the Standing Board of the Cao Bang provincial Party Committee on June 10, discussing key issues such as national defence-security, judicial reform, foreign affairs, socio-economic development, and Party and political system building.

With the goal of bringing diverse experiences to passengers as well as contributing to promoting agricultural products, Vietnam Airlines serves dishes and drinks from Son La plums on many domestic and international routes from June 8 to June 15.

Many overseas Vietnamese were quite surprised to visit a "Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space - Meeting point for overseas Vietnamese" that was recently inaugurated at the campus of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese in Ho Chi Minh City.

President To Lam visited and presented gifts to officers and soldiers of Soc Giang border guard station in the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang on June 9.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) approved a resolution on the 2025 law and ordinance making programme, and adjustments to the 2024 programme as part of its seventh session on June 8.

The Knight of the National Order of Merit of France has been bestowed upon Prof. Dr. Nguyen Vu Quoc Huy, Rector of the Hue University of Medicine and Pharmacy (HueUMP) under the Hue University in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, for his contributions to the bilateral relations.

(CPV) - In celebration of the upcoming International Day of Play, a vibrant Play Day for Children was held on June 8th 2024 at the beautiful Quoc Tu Giam Garden in Ha Noi. Co-organized by UNICEF, Think Playground and the Culture and Science Centre of Van Mieu, the inclusive event, designed for children of all backgrounds and abilities, aimed to emphasize the crucial role of play in children’s development.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on June 8 called for greater efforts to keep the 2024 growth rate at the upper limit of the 6-6.5% target, and inflation at the lower of the 4-4,5% target, given the context that there are more challenges than opportunities.

Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Delegation to the National Assembly (NA) and NA Chairman Tran Thanh Man attended a ceremony held in Hanoi on June 7 to present the 40- and 30-year Party membership badges to two Party members at the Party organisation of the NA Office.

On June 5, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc in the Ho Chi Minh City, in collaboration with the Journal of Political Theory - Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, organized a discussion on research of Ho Chi Minh's ideology on morality and Party building in the renewal process.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called for enhanced measures to bring the Vietnam-New Zealand trade value to 3 billion USD at the earliest while hosting a reception for Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of New Zealand Winston Peters in Hanoi on June 5.

So far, the EPA program has brought more than 1,900 nursing and midwifery candidates to work in Japan. Vietnamese candidates of the EPA program have a high rate of passing the Japanese national certification exam, confirming their professional quality and receiving good reviews from employers in this country.

(CPV) - Gaia Nature Conservation Center in collaboration with Ta Kou Nature Reserve has launched the 2024 afforestation program to combat desertification on the occasion of World Environment Day.

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh emphasised the need to take measures early to ensure water security which is threatened by climate change while addressing a question-and answer-session of the 15th National Assembly (NA)’s 7th sitting on June 4.

During a working visit to Yunnan province, China, on June 2, the delegation of the Ha Giang Provincial People's Council led by Thao Hong Son, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council, visited President Ho Chi Minh's former residence in Kunming and the Yunnan Ethnic Cultural Village, China.

President To Lam handed over the decision to appoint Sen. Lieut. Gen. Trinh Van Quyet, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Central Military Commission and Vice Chairman of the General Department of Politics under the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) as the new Chairman of the General Department of Politics at a ceremony in Hanoi on June 3.

(CPV) - Joining hands for clean air and a green city was the theme of an event hosted on June 3rd 2024 by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DONRE), under the People’s Committee of Ha Noi, in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Hanoi Women's Union, ahead of World Environment Day on June 5th.

The central province of Quang Binh held a ceremony in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Dong Hoi city on June 2 to celebrate its 420th founding anniversary (1604 - 2024), 75 years since the province’s uprising against French colonialists (July 15, 1949), and 35 years since its re-establishment (July 1, 1989).

The Action Month for Children 2024 was launched at a ceremony held in Hue city, the central province of Thua Thien - Hue on June 1.

Ecotree Group, a sustainable forestry company focusing on carbon removal and biodiversity preservation, will team up with Germany's NGUYEN GmbH Chau Au to implement a carbon dioxide reduction project in Vietnam under an agreement signed on May 31.

A nationwide charity programme to support children with disabilities in ten border provinces was launched in Hanoi on May 31.

The Hanoi Department of Public Security on May 31 verified the information about procedures for foreigners leaving Vietnam.