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The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee opened its April law-making session on April 12 under the chair by NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, with three draft laws tabled for discussion.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked ministries, agencies and localities to work harder in order to pave way for transport projects, saying administrative procedures should be streamlined, while concluding a meeting of the State steering committee for national key transport projects in Hanoi on April 12.

On April 11, a delegation of former political prisoners and prisoners of war from Ho Chi Minh City offered flowers and visited the Mausoleum to pay respects to President Ho Chi Minh on the occasion of the delegation's return to Hanoi in the journey "Following Uncle Ho's footsteps".

A delegation from the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), led by Ms. Tran Kim Yen, member of the Standing Board of the HCMC Party Committee and Chairwoman of the HCMC’s Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, on April 11 congratulated the Consulates General of Cambodia, Laos and Thailand in HCMC on the occasion of the Chol Chnam Thmay Festival of Cambodia, the Songkran New Year of Thailand and the Bunpimay Festival of Laos.

A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) led by Le Hoai Trung, member of the CPV Central Committee and Chairman of its Commission for External Relations, attended the French Communist Party (PCF)’s 39th Congress in Marseille city, and paid a working visit to the European country from April 7-11.

(CPV) - In order to preserve the rare green Ironwood species and restore the watershed around the thousand-year-old Ironwood in Ben En National Park in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa, the Gaia Nature Conservation Center launched the program "Contributing trees to restore the Ironwood forest".

Officials of the southern Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu held a gathering on April 10 with representatives of Khmer people in the province to offer greetings on the occasion of Chol Chnam Thmay, one of the most important traditional festivals of the Khmer ethnics.

On April 10, the Ha Giang Provincial Party Committee Commission on Popularization and Education launched an online multiple-choice contest on President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style in 2023.

The Hanoi Party Committee Commission on Popularization and Education has issued an instruction on disseminating the 75th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh’s call on patriotic emulation (June 11).

A ceremony was recently held by the District 10 People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) to launch streets selling construction materials.

This is a copy of the notebook of an army unit on the battlefield, showing that the respect for Uncle Ho is the symbol and motivation for soldiers to fight to protect the Fatherland.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 10 chaired a Government’s law-building meeting focusing on the collection of public opinions on the draft Land Law (revised) to submit to the National Assembly (NA), and the absorption of the NA Standing Committee’s ideas on the draft Housing Law (revised).

Former Chilean Michelle Bachelet recently granted an interview to the Vietnam News Agency during her trip to Vietnam on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of Vietnam-Chile diplomatic ties (March 25).

The Health Ministry, in collaboration with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Youth Federation, the Vietnam Young Physicians' Association, and the representative office of the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Vietnam, held a meeting in Hanoi on April 8 in response to the 2023 World Health Day themed “Health for all”.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh is making a working trip to the northern mountainous province of Dien Bien, during which he inspected the progress of a project to expand the Dien Bien airport, a new urban area, and the supply of medicine and medical supplies at the provincial general hospital on April 8.

Vietnam always considers the US one of the top important partners, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue told a delegation of members of the US Congress led by Senator Jeff Merkley during a reception in Hanoi on April 8.

The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum will be open to the public on May 1, the Management Board of the site has announced.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 6 received Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko, who is in Vietnam for an official visit and to co-chair the 24th session of the Vietnam-Russia Inter-governmental Committee for economic, trade and scientific-technical cooperation.

President Vo Van Thuong highly valued the diplomatic sector’s contributions to national defence while attending a conference held in Hanoi on April 6 to review the 10-year implementation of the Party Central Committee’s resolution on the strategy for safeguarding the Fatherland in the new context.

Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh has just signed and promulgated Decision No. 1937/QD-UBND conferring the title "Good person - good deed" in 2023 to 70 individuals in Hanoi.

Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Party Central Committee (PCC) and Head of the PCC Commission on Popularization and Education, on April 5 offered flowers and incense at the President Ho Chi Minh commemoration cultural area in Thanh Hoa province.

The Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Department of Agriculture and Rural Development released 44,000 bagridae catfish and 330,000 freshwater aquatic breeds such as giant freshwater shrimp and perch fish into the Saigon River at Bach Dang Wharf on April 1.

On April 3, the Department of Education and Training and the Department of Culture and Sports of the People's Committee of District 8 in Ho Chi Minh City held a ceremony to launch the Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space, with the theme "Uncle Ho with information culture and education".

The Tan Binh District Party Committee’s Commission for Popularization and Education and the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the district of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) recently held a signing ceremony to cooperate in popularizing the construction of the Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space to all classes of people in the period of 2023-2025.

The Hanoi Party Committee on April 3 launched a donation campaign to support the Fund "For Vietnam’s sea and islands" in 2023.

A key measure to effective public investment disbursement is to promote investment with focuses, with priority given to regional linkage projects to create new socio-economic development spaces for localities, said Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Tran Van Son at a regular Cabinet press conference on March 3.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the Government’s online conference with localities and the Government's monthly meeting in Hanoi on April 3.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited Khanh Hoa’s General Hospital and SOS Children's Village Nha Trang, and attended the inaugural ceremony of a theatre in Nha Trang city, within the framework of his working visit to the south central province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has sent a letter offering greetings to Khmer ethnic people on the occasion of their traditional Chol Chnam Thmay festival 2023.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received Liu Ning, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, in Hanoi on March 31.