Politics - Society

The government and Prime Minister's working report for the 2011-2016 tenure received a strong sense of approval from the National Assembly's Standing Committee during its ongoing 45th session in Hanoi on February 24.

The project management board of the Ho Chi Minh Road has asked the transport ministry for approval to invest more than VND1,178 billion (US$52.6 million) to upgrade the National Highway 12B in Ninh Binh province.

Save Vietnam's Wildlife (SVW )and Cuc Phuong National Park have recently inaugurated a Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation and Education Centre, the first of its kind in Vietnam.

Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism Hoang AnhTuan visited the northern province of Ninh Binh on February 21 to inspect the organization of festivals.

The Ninh Binh provincial chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front on February 16 held the first consultative conference to discuss the personnel structure of the 14th provincial People's Council in 2016 - 2021.

The first consultative conference of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee was held in Hanoi on February 16 to discuss the personnel structure of the 14th National Assembly (NA) as proposed by the 13th NA Standing Committee.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and the Vietnamese high-level delegation arrived at Palm Spring airport in California on February 14 (US time), beginning a visit to attend the special ASEAN-US summit slated for February 15-16.

The Bai Dinh Pagoda Festival officially kicked off in the Gia Vien district of the northern province of Ninh Binh on February 13 - the sixth day of the Lunar New Year.

Politburo members Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Truong Thi Mai, Tran Dai Quang and Hoang Trung Hai paid visits to localities across the country on February 12 to extend New Year wishes to the localities and check services to people.

Party, Government and Army leaders paid Tet visits to localities and units around the country on February 8-9

Minister of Public Security Tran Da iQuang and Minister of Finance Dinh Tien Dung offered theirbest wishes to Ninh Binh's leaders and its people on February 3 on the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

The Office of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly Office, the Presidential Office and the Government Office convened a meeting in Hanoi on February 2 to launch tasks for 2016.

Local authorities have visited and presented Tet gifts to needy people and social policy beneficiariesacross the province on the occasion of the Lunar New Year festival.

The newly-elected Party Central Committee convened the first plenum in Hanoi on January 27 and elected the Politburo, the Party General Secretary, the Secretariat, the Inspection Commission and the commission's head for the 12th tenure.

On the morning of January 28, the 12th National Party Congress held the concluding session in Hanoi.

Delegates to the 12th National Party Congress cast their votes on members of the 12th Party Central Committee in Hanoi in the morning of January 26.

Participants in the 12th National Party Congress worked in their delegations on January 24 to appraise the standards and structure of the 12th Party Central Committee and the list of nominations fielded by the 11th Party Central Committee.

On the morning of January 22, the 12th National Party Congress held a plenary session to discuss draft documents presented at congress and received high consensus from the delegates.

The 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam opened at Hanoi's National Convention Centre in the morning of January 21.