Vietnam Today

On September 15, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Education and Training held a conference on cooperation and investment in education to increase the mobilization of society's resources for investment in education development.

The delegation attending the 16th Congress of the Quang Binh Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union for the 2022-2027 term has held incense offerings at the Temple of Uncle Ho and heroic martyrs in Dong Hoi city and Ba Doc Martyrs’ Cemetery in Bo Trach district.

A national teleconference took place under the chair of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 15 to promote administrative procedure reforms and governance modernisation.

On September 13, the Nguyen Du Lao-Vietnamese bilingual school in the Lao capital of Vientiane held a ceremony to launch the 2022-2023 academic year.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 14 chaired a meeting of a council to appraise the national master plan for the 2021-2030 period, with a vision towards 2050.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized the importance of planning work at a meeting of an evaluation council for the national master plan in 2021-2030 with a vision to 2050 in Hanoi on September 14.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 13 stressed the need to remove all obstacles in bidding and procurement of medicine, medical equipment and bio-products within this month so as to avoid the disruption in their supply caused by administrative procedures, legal problems or a lack of responsibility among public officials.

100 scholarshipsn has been presented to the children of officers and soldiers of Ho Chi Minh City's armed forces in 2022.

The National Strategy on the Development of Vietnamese Cultural Industries is a huge effort of the country in realising UNESCO’s Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (Convention 2005).

Vietnam is staying active and maintaining stability with risk management tools and healthy competition amid global integration, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a national teleconference on September 12 to look into fire prevention and control and the five-year implementation of a Government decree on rescue and the firefighting force.

From now until the end of the year, Hanoi will continue to focus on organizing the review of poor and near-poor households; strive to fulfill the target of the poverty reduction plan in 2022, which aims to reduce the number of poor households by 20% compared to the beginning of the year, equivalent to 1,339 poor households.

An official visit to Vietnam from September 12 to 14 by President of the Cambodian National Assembly Samdech Heng Samrin is an important political and diplomatic event in the Vietnam - Cambodia Friendship Year 2022 and amid the 55th anniversary of the diplomatic relationship (June 24).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam) ensure energy sufficiency during a working session on September 11 to seek ways for accelerating some key projects and solving difficulties facing the firm.

The 15th meeting of the National Assembly (NA)’s Standing Committee will convene from September 12 – 15, according to the NA Office.

Members of the Party Central Committee’s Politburo and Secretariat gave opinions on a number of projects during their meeting on September 9-10 under the chair of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

The Commission of Inspection of the Party Central Committee held its 19th session from Sept 6 -8 in Hanoi under the chair of the commission’s chairman Tran Cam Tu.

A ceremony was organized by the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee in Ho Chi Minh City on September 7 to receive gifts for children and disadvantaged people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic on the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has said that 20,794 businesses, with 371,638 laborers in the city received housing rent support, with an amount of more than VND194 billion as of September 5.

Vietnam’s major economic balances were maintained in the first eight months of this year despite a slew of difficulties, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told a Government meeting that opened in Hanoi on September 6.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh shared the joy of teachers and more than 23 million students nationwide at the start of the new school year, attending a ceremony on September 5 at Doan Thi Diem primary school in Hanoi.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc beat the drum to kick off the new 2022-2023 academic year at the High School for Gifted Students under the Vietnam National University (VNU)’s Hanoi University of Science (HUS) on September 5.

Leaders from many countries over the world have sent their greetings to their Vietnamese counterparts on the occasion of the 77th National Day of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

The Ministry of Education and Training and localities must strictly implement the guidelines and policies of the Party and State on education and training so that education is truly a top national policy, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said on September 3.

The Party and the State always pay special attention to education and training, ensuring the equal access to education for all, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue affirmed while attending the inaugural ceremony of a high school in a mountainous district of Nghe An province on September 3.

Vietnam’s Engineering Unit Rotation 1 at the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) celebrated 77th National Day (September 2) with a get-together.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on September 3 asked the northern midland province of Phu Tho to work harder to become an economic connectivity centre between Vietnam and other ASEAN member countries as well as China’s southwestern region.

Vietnam has made significant efforts to implement UNESCO Convention for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage since its ratification of the treaty on October 19, 1987.

Speaking at a banquet held in Kuala Lumpur on September 1 evening to mark 77 years of Vietnam’s National Day, Vietnamese Ambassador Tran Viet Thai affirmed the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Malaysia is developing strongly across all fields.

Standing Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh on September 1 attended a ceremony held in Vinh Quang Prison in the northern province of Vinh Phuc for the announcement of the President’s 2022 Amnesty Decision.