Vietnam Today

A delegation of the State Audit Office of Vietnam (SAV) attended the 22nd meeting of the Working Group on Environmental Auditing (WGEA) of the International Organisation of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) held in Rovaniemi city, Finland, from January 22 to 25.

Representatives from the Australian Embassy in Vietnam recently visited the Hoang Lien centre for wildlife rescue, conservation and development in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai to work on the care for suspectedly smuggled wallabies.

National Assembly Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai visited and presented Tet gifts to social policy beneficiary households and poor students in Luc Ngan district, the northern province of Bac Giang on January 26.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on January 26 presented Tet gifts to social policy beneficiaries, officers, soldiers, and disadvantaged labourers in Gia Lai as part of his visit to the Central Highlands province.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a meeting with representatives of donors and foreign-invested enterprises in Vietnam on January 26 on the occasion of the upcoming Lunar New Year festival.

State President Vo Van Thuong visited the central drilling rig of the Cuu Long Joint Operating Company (Cuu Long JOC), offering New Year wishes to its officials and engineers representing the 60,000-strong staff in the oil and gas industry, in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on January 26.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue asked the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai to speed up administrative reform and improve the investment environment right in early 2024 while holding a working session with the provincial Party Committee's Standing Board on January 26.

National Assembly (NA) Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on January 26 offered incense to commemorate late NA Chairman Nguyen Huu Tho at his house in Ho Chi Minh City on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 26 visited officers and soldiers of the Ministry of National Defence’s General Department for Defence Intelligence (General Department II), during which the PM asked them to be prepared to continue completing all assigned tasks in 2024 and following years.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue on January 25 extended greetings and presented gifts on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (called Tet in Vietnamese) to families of policy beneficiaries, revolutionary contributors, poor households, Agent Orange/dioxin victims, and workers facing difficulties in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu.

The investigation into a terrorism case in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, which occurred on June 11, 2023, has been conducted in accordance with Vietnam’s law, said Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Pham Thu Hang.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue has congratulated the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on surpassing its 2023 targets, achieving notable and comprehensive results that positioned it among well-performing localities in the region and the country.

President Vo Van Thuong visited and offered Lunar New Year (Tet) greetings to people, the mobile police, and the customs force of the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on January 25.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on January 25 asked ministries, agencies, organisations, and localities to launch new emulation movements, taking the example of the one on doing away with makeshift houses as part of the efforts to materialise the national target programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas.

Chairman of the National Assembly (NA) Vuong Dinh Hue received New Zealand Ambassador to Vietnam Tredene Dobson in Hanoi on January 24, lauding the outgoing diplomat’s contributions to relations between the two countries and their parliaments.

Former Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan was conferred with the Order of the Rising Sun, first-class Grand Cross, of the Japanese Government at a ceremony held in Hanoi on January 24.

Hai Duong will launch the “Tree-planting Festival – remembering Uncle Ho's merit forever” in spring 2024 from February 19 to March 19 (from January 10 to February 10 of the Lunar calendar).

LOTUSat-1, Vietnam’s first ever indigenous weather satellite, is expected to be launched into orbit from December 2024 to February 2025, VNA reported news by the Vietnam National Satellite Centre (VNSC) at the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST).

President Vo Van Thuong on January 23 decided to send longevity congratulations to 757 citizens who turn 100 years old in six provinces.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue paid pre-Tet visits to the families of late top legislators Bui Bang Doan and Le Quang Dao on January 22.

The Party Committee of the Soc Trang Agencies and Businesses Bloc on January 18 organized a conference to research and thoroughly grasp the 2024 special subject on studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style on promoting cultural identity of the ethnic groups and people of Soc Trang to meet the requirements of innovation, integration and development.

According to the National Centre for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, temperatures have tumbled sharply after a strong cold air wave hit northern localities in Vietnam early on January 21.

Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan emphasised the importance of solidarity in a divided world while addressing a plenary session of the 19th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Kampala capital of Uganda on January 20.

Vietnam has full legal basis and ample historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) Islands, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said on January 20 in response to reporters’ query on Vietnam's position concerning China's invasion of the Hoang Sa Islands in 1974.

Vietnam has been elected as a Vice President of the Executive Committee of the 19th Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) Summit, representing the Asia – Pacific region.

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue had a working session with the standing board of the Party Committee of the northern province of Thai Binh on January 20.

President Vo Van Thuong on January 20 visited and presented gifts to soldiers and people in Tho Chau island commune in Phu Quoc city of Kien Giang province - the most remote island commune in the southwest of the country – on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet).

The Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission decided to give a warning to the Standing Board of the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Party Committee in the 2015-2020 tenure as a disciplinary measure, during its meeting in Hanoi on January 10-11 and 19.

President Vo Van Thuong on January 19 visited and presented gifts to social policy beneficiaries and workers in Tra On district in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival.

A ceremony was held on January 18th to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Uncle Ho’s visit to Thang Loi Cooperative, Vinh Quang commune (now Dao Xa commune) in the northern province of Phu Tho.