Vietnam Today

Chairman of the Hanoi People's Committee Tran Sy Thanh has just signed and promulgated a plan to organize a conference to honor the results of the emulation movement in 2022, and launch a peak emulation round to organize activities to celebrate the 75th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's call for patriotic emulation.

On March 9, the Hanoi-based National Archives Center III held a ceremony to receive more than 1,000 photos, materials and documents about Uncle Ho and the Party and State leaders presented by writer Son Tung’s family.

The front page of the People's Army Newspaper No. 2083 dated March 7, 1967, featured the article "President Ho Chi Minh sent a letter of compliment to the army and people of Thanh Hoa".

The Bac Giang and Bac Ninh Departments of Education and Training have signed a cooperation agreement to implement measures for coordination and development between the two Departments for the period of 2023 -2025 and the following years.

The Ministry of Public Security’s Emulation Cluster 1 has held a political activity with the theme “75 years of remembering Uncle Ho’s teachings” in celebration of the 75th anniversary of Uncle Ho stating the six things to teach the People’s Police (March 11, 1948-2023).

(CPV) - There was an increase in the number of district-level land use plans and provincial-level land pricing frameworks available online on local government portals in 2022 compared to 2021. At the same time, local authorities have become more responsive to citizen requests for land information. However, despite these changes, the difference between the two reviews was not significant, indicating that more needs to be done by provincial and district authorities to meet the mandate of disclosing information online.

President Vo Van Thuong emphasised the strategic significance of the great national solidarity to the Party’s revolution while chairing a meeting in Hanoi on March 9.

Doan Thanh Dien, a chef in a restaurant in Da Lat city, Central Highland province of Lam Dong, has brought home two gold medals and two silver medals at the Malaysia Culinary World Cup 2023 that took place in Malaysia on February 21-23.

A ceremony was held to honor eight women, whose husbands and children bravely sacrificed themselves for national liberation and unification in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), with the “Vietnamese Heroic Mother” title on March 8.

(CPV) - The contest “Thai Binh Public Security Youths study and practice the six things Uncle Ho taught” is a useful playground to promote popularization about the Six things Uncle Ho taught cadres, soldiers and youth union members, contributing to building young union members with bravery, humanity and serving for the people.

In the first two months of 2023, the total number of Vietnamese labourers sent abroad under contracts was 28,429, an increase of more than 20 times over the same period last year.

The Hanoi City Police on March 7 held a thematic exhibition "Implementing six things Uncle Ho taught the People's Public Security Forces - The source of success".

A roundtable conference was held in St. Petersburg on March 6 to discuss the history of friendship between Russia and Vietnam through meetings of Soviet Union leader Iosif .V. Stalin and President Ho Chi Minh.

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has handed over 30,000 square meters of land treated for dioxin at the Bien Hoa Airport to the Ministry of National Defence, on March 7.

The Central Public Security Party Committee and the Ministry of Public Security on March 6 held a solemn ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary of “People's Public Security Forces study and implement the six things Uncle Ho taught”; 75 years of the traditional day of building the People's Public Security Forces (March 11, 1948 - March 11, 2023); and receive the First-class Fatherland Defense Order.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue met with female officers of the public security force in Hanoi on March 6 on the occasion of the 113th anniversary of International Women’s Day and the 40th founding anniversary of the Ministry of Public Security’s Women Union (March 8).

The Political Bureau convened a meeting at the headquarters of the Party Central Committee on March 6 to consider the personnel work. The Political Bureau decided as follows:

(CPV) - The semi-final round of IOM’s (International Organization for Migration) first debate competition on safe migration and human trafficking prevention among Vietnamese youths has been officially launched at the Green One UN House.

Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) Fine Arts Association recently held a scientific seminar "Fine Arts in Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space".

According to the Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, in the first two months of 2023, the city created jobs for nearly 27,870 workers, reaching 17.2% of the year’s plan.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 4 for visiting Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng.

Leaders of Russia, India, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), Japan, Italy, Mongolia, and the UAE have sent congratulations to Vo Van Thuong on his election as President of Vietnam by the 15th National Assembly.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue, and Nguyen Xuan Thang, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA), co-chaired a seminar contributing ideas to the draft Land Law (amended) in Hanoi on March 4.

President Vo Van Thuong received Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Samdech Krolahom Sar Kheng, who was on a working visit to Vietnam, in Hanoi on March 4.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh visited the Vietnam National Innovation Centre (NIC) under the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) and the Military Industry and Telecoms Group (Viettel) in Hanoi on March 4.

State budget collection from export-import activities in the first two months stood at 56.33 trillion VND (2.37 billion USD), or 13.3% of the estimate, down 19.4% year-on-year, reported the General Department of Vietnam Customs (Vietnam Customs).

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha met with Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives Hosoda Hiroyuki, Chairman of the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nishimura Yasutoshi, and the parliamentarians in charge of environmental issues of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo on March 3.

Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang and First Deputy PM of Spain Nadia Calviño had talks in Madrid on March 3, affirming the determination to develop the two countries’ “strategic partnership towards the future” on par with potential.

Representatives of the Wonkwang medical organisation and the Vietnamese Association in the Republic of Korea (RoK) on March 3 signed a memorandum of understanding on collaboration to provide medical support for the Vietnamese community in this Northeast Asian country.

On March 2, after the incense offering ceremony in memory of President Ho Chi Minh, mass organizations of 5 units of the Guard Command of the Ho Chi Minh Museum, Military Medical Academy, Military Technical Academy, 108 Military Central Hospital and Vietnam Maritime Corporation launched the tree planting festival to show eternal gratitude to Uncle Ho at the K9 historical site in Ba Vi district, Hanoi.