Vietnam politics

With five groups of solutions and 25 tasks, the plan puts forward that by 2030, the State’s management methods will be reformed in a fundamental and comprehensive manner and aligned with international principles and practices in a bid to create a favourable business climate for all economic sectors, thereby helping achieve all targets relevant to the private economic sector as stated in Resolution No 10-NQ/TW, developing the private economic sector into an important driving force of the socialist-oriented market economy. During the course of the three years implementing the resolution, Vietnam’s private economic sector has seen robust development and has gradually become a driving force in promoting national economic growth. Private businesses, particularly large scale ones, have made remarkable strides in establishing their roles and position in the national economy. Many private enterprises have shown performance levels as effective as or even more so than State-owned and … [Read more...] about Comprehensively reforming State’s economic management

Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam's permanent missions to the United Nations (UN) in New York and Geneva have recently sent diplomatic notes to the UN and countries informing the candidacy of Ambassador Nguyen Hong Thao to the International Law Commission (ILC) for the 2023-2027 tenure, marking the official start of the Vietnamese candidate's campaign for re-election to the UN’s important law organ. In 2016, Ambassador Thao became the first Vietnamese to be elected as an ILC member. During the 2017-2022 tenure, he actively promoted ILC’s research results, delivered speeches and joined discussions at the ILC. He also helped express developing nations’ interest in new and non-traditional topics, and actively joined in discussions on topics such as protection of the atmosphere and environmental protection in armed conflicts. Most notably, he strongly supported the ILC’s research on rising seawater level and the addition of the issue to the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese ambassador runs for re-election to International Law Commission

“If you ask if I feel satisfied about what I did in my term, I would say ‘no’. I regret that I could not do more,” said Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan. Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan: "Successor will do better than me" 2020 was the last year of your term of office. What will you, as the ‘home affairs commander’, say about the tasks of the last five years? In the last five years, the home affairs sector continued implementing the tasks carried forward from the previous term and the resolution of the 12th Party Congress. I think there were five hallmarks. First, institutional building. The home affairs sector advised the government to ask the National Assembly to amend four important laws, including the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles in the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants and the Law on Public Employees; the Law on amending and supplementing a number of articles in the Law on Organization of the Government and Law on Organization of … [Read more...] about Minister of Home Affairs: successor will do better than me

In his opening remarks, Vietnamese Ambassador to South Africa Hoang Van Loi reviewed the positive achievements Vietnam achieved in 2020 amid the COVID-19 epidemic making a serious impact around the world. The diplomat affirmed that Vietnam’s proud achievements have always been accompanied and contributed to by the more than five million expatriates, including the Vietnamese community in South Africa. He highly lauded the continuous development of the Vietnamese community in South Africa in the context of difficulties in their host country, while expressing his wish that Vietnamese expatriates continue to preserve their national identity, keeping hearts in the homeland and building a united and strong Vietnamese community in South Africa, contributing to promoting the traditional friendship between the two countries. Representing the Vietnamese community in South Africa, Ms. Ngo Thi Tuyet Trinh said the Vietnamese community is proud of Vietnam's great socio-economic achievements … [Read more...] about Overseas Vietnamese in South Africa gather to welcome lunar new year

* China and India should firmly follow the right path of mutual trust and cooperation between neighboring major countries, and not go astray with suspicion and distrust nor fall back on a road of negative retrogression, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Thursday. Wang made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, stressing that the two sides should maintain the strategic consensuses reached by their leaders. * As COVID-19 transmission rates seemingly decline across the European Region, the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge expressed health concerns over "long-COVID" or "post-COVID" symptoms at a virtual press conference on Thursday. * Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Armenia in a telephone conversation with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Thursday, the Kremlin said. * The Pentagon confirmed on Thursday that the US … [Read more...] about World News in Brief: February 26