Politics - Society

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong hosted a reception in Hanoi on November 1 for Song Tao, special envoy of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), Xi Jinping.

A seminar, themed "Great October: achievements, lessons and looking towards the future", took place in Moscow, on October 31, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Great October Revolution of Russia.

Many National Assembly (NA) deputies have shared the views that heads of State agencies should take higher responsibility in staff reduction on the sidelines of their discussions on law enforcement in the reform of State administrative apparatus for 2011-2016 as part of the fourth sitting of the 14th NA in Hanoi on October 30th.

The Vietnamese Government sets growth goal of 6.5 - 6.7% for 2018 amid encouraging socio-economic signals in 2017, according to a report presented by PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc at the opening ceremony of the Legislature's ongoing 4th session.

Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung and his Indian counterpart Preeti Saran co-chaired the ninth political consultation and sixth strategic dialogue at the deputy foreign ministerial level between Vietnam and India in Hanoi on October 24.

Local authorities, organisations and individuals from all over the country are actively joining together to support the victims who have been affected by the recent floods and landslides in order to help them to stabilise their lives.

A send-off ceremony for security forces and a counter-terrorism exercise to protect security at the coming APEC Economic Leaders' Week in Da Nang city were held on October 24.

The fourth plenary session of the 14th National Assembly (NA) began in Hanoi on the morning of October 23 with the opening ceremony broadcast live on national television and radio channels.

Tam Diep city has been recognized to have completed its 2017 new-style rural area building tasks.

Promoting effective cooperation with the United Nations (UN) is always a top priority of Vietnam's foreign policies, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said while addressing a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Vietnam's membership to the UN in Hanoi on October 17.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received outgoing US Ambassador Ted Osius in Hanoi, on October 17, congratulating the diplomat on concluding a successful term in Vietnam.

National Assembly (NA) Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has led a high-ranking NA delegation of Vietnam to attend the 137th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-137) that officially opened in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on October 14.

In the face of abnormal and serious flooding over the past few days, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc cancelled a scheduled meeting with voters in Hai Phong City to travel to the northern province of Ninh Binh for a check of local dykes on October 12th.

All 13 norms set by the National Assembly for 2017 would be fulfilled, of which five would exceed targets and eight others would meet goals, said PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Members of the 12th Party Central Committee discussed the socio-economic situation, State budget of 2017 and tasks for 2018 during the second working day of their 6th meeting on October 5.

The sixth meeting of the Party Central Committee (PCC) (term XII) opened on October 4th in Hanoi, discussing a wide range of important issues.

Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung handed over gifts to children being cared at the Ninh Binh Social Sponsor Center on October2on the occasion of the Mid-autumn festival.

President Tran Dai Quang has sent his warmest wishes to all Vietnamese children at home and abroad as well as foreign children who are living in Vietnam on the occasion of the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival.

President Tran Dai Quang hosted a reception for outgoing Bulgarian Ambassador to Vietnam Ebgueni Stefanov Stoytchev in Hanoi on September 28, during which he spoke of the diplomat's active and effective contributions to facilitating the cooperation between the two countries throughout his working tenure.