Vietnam Today

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee convened its 30th meeting in Hanoi on February 22, with its agenda focusing on five major contents.

On February 21, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Red Cross Society announced key programs and activities taking place in National Humanitarian Month 2024 with the theme "Humanitarian journey - Giving and receiving love".

Representatives from the Thai universities, Thai enterprises who are operating in Vietnam, as well as Vietnamese and Thai students participated in a conference to bolster education collaboration between Vietnam and Thailand.

A tree planting campaign was launched by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment on February 21 at the Tay Yen Tu spiritual and ecological tourism complex in Son Dong district, the northern province of Bac Giang.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue chaired a meeting to discuss the draft Law on Defence, Security Industries and Industrial Mobilisation in Hanoi on February 21.

The Son La Provincial Police held a ceremony to launch a program "Tree Planting Festival 2024 in external gratitude to Uncle Ho" in the headquarters of the Provincial Police Department on February 19.

Leaders and commanders of agencies, faculties, units and more than 300 officers, lecturers, students and soldiers of the Vietnam Naval Academy attended a ceremony to launch planting festival in gratitude to the great Uncle Ho on the occasion of lunar New Year spring 2024.

The Khanh Hoa Provincial Farmers' Association held a ceremony on February 20 in Van Thanh commune, Van Ninh district to launch a Tree Planting Festival to be eternally grateful to Uncle Ho on the occasion of Lunar New Year of Dragon.

Lai Chau province has recently organized a ceremony to launch the tree planting festival "Eternally grateful to Uncle Ho" 2024 in Lai Chau city.

The Vietnamese Association in Hamm city of Germany’s Nordrhein-Westfalen state organized its founding congress on February 18, becoming the first Vietnamese organization in the city.

A delegation of the Ministry of National Defence, led by Lieutenant General Pham Truong Son, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, is attending the Singapore Airshow 2024 from February 20-25.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue has urged the medical sector to develop an equal, quality and effective healthcare system towards universal healthcare coverage and social insurance for all.

State President Vo Van Thuong offered incense to King An Duong Vuong at the Co Loa special national relic in Hanoi’s outlying district of Dong Anh on February 20.

On February 19, the Military Command of the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien launched the 2024 Tree-planting Festival in eternal gratitude to Uncle Ho, among all agencies and units throughout the province.

A ceremony was organized to launch the "Tree Planting Festival - For a Green Vietnam" 2024 movement of the Ministry of Public Security in Ninh Binh province on February 19.

(CPV) - Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia hopes that the Heads of Vietnam's representative agencies abroad continue to make efforts to overcome difficulties and challenges, perform well their assigned tasks, and actively contribute to national building, development and defense.

On February 17, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin visited a memorial site dedicated to late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh in the northeastern province of Nakhon Phanom, affirming its historical significance and role as a bridge to connect and strengthen the Thailand-Vietnam friendship.

The Da Nang City People’s Committee has launched the Tree Planting Festival in eternal gratitude to Uncle Ho, attended by numerous participants.

Vietnam is likely to endure another year of baking heat in 2024 following the second hottest recorded year in history in 2023, according to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting (NCHMF).

Vietnam currently tops the Southeast Asian region in the number of students studying abroad, according to the Southeast Asia Key Trends Report 2024 by Acumen, an international education consulting organisation.

The book on theory and practice of socialism in Vietnam by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee Nguyen Phu Trong has been introduced in Havana, Cuba recently as part of a CPV delegation's visit to the Caribbean nation.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on February 17 led a government delegation to inspect the implementation of sub-projects under the eastern North-South Expressway project, and another on the 500kV north-central power transmission grid.

Over the past years, the northern province of Lang Son has actively promoted the effectiveness of friendly exchanges, and cooperation programmes and mechanisms with China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh ordered competent sides to accelerate construction of key transport projects in 2024 to create new development space while chairing the 9th session of the Steering Committee for Key National Transport Projects on February 16.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has signed a directive urging ministries, sectors, localities, and state employees to promptly implement key tasks after the Lunar New Year (Tet) holiday.

The Party Central Committee (PCC)’s Secretariat met in Hanoi on February 16 to review the implementation of its Directive No. 26-CT/TW, issued on November 23 last year, on the organisation of the Lunar New Year (Tet) 2024 celebrations and assign some focal tasks to all-level Party committees.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has issued an appeal for nationwide support for the northwestern mountainous province of Dien Bien on the occasion of the coming 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory.

The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) recorded 1,269 blood and 359 platelet donors from February 8-14, higher than the previous years.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh embarked on a tour of agricultural production models in the northern province of Hai Duong on February 15, the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue hailed the Audit State Office of Vietnam (SAV) for its contributions to the NA and the NA Standing Committee’s activities in lawmaking, supreme supervision and decision making during his visit to the SAV on February 15, the first working day after the Lunar New Year holiday.