Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported over the weekend by the Vietnam News Agency.
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a Government monthly law-making session on August 24 to discuss seven draft laws, proposals for law-making, and one report content.Read full story
At the session, the Prime Minister ordered ministers and heads of ministerial-level agencies to be responsible for the content, quality, and feasibility of draft laws to ensure that these laws, once enacted, can be put into practice soon, and help address bottlenecks and solve existing difficulties and obstacles.Read full story
-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked the Central Highlands of Lam Dong to focus on implementing three breakthrough measures to boost its rapid and sustainable growth, including developing science and technology, innovation and startups, promoting the application of achievements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, especially in the service and agriculture.
The Government leader had a working session with the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee on August 25.Read full story
--The core of security and order protection is constantly improving people's spiritual and material life with no one left behind, stated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh while chairing a conference on security-order protection in Central Highlands region, which was held in Da Lat city of Lam Dong on August 25.
Highlighting the strategic significance of the Central Highlands region in the country's economy, politics, security, defence and ecological environment, the PM underlined that the Party and State have paid great attention to ensuring the stable development of this region.Read full story
-National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man held talks with visiting President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines in Hanoi on August 25.
At the talks, which followed a red-carpet welcome ceremony for the guest, the Vietnamese top legislator said that this visit will help specify and promote the implementation of the contents of the newly-established comprehensive strategic partnership between the two countries.Read full story
- President of the Australian Senate Sue Lines and her entourage made a tour of the Trang An eco-tourism site, part of the Trang An landscape complex, in Ninh Binh province, approximately 100km south of Hanoi, on August 25 as part of her ongoing official visit to Vietnam.
Deputy Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Thanh expressed her joy to welcome Senator Lines, hoping the trip to Trang An will leave an deep impression on the Australian Senator and her entourage.Read full story
- Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held talks in Hanoi on August 25 with his Chilean counterpart Alberto Van Klaveren, who is on an official visit to Vietnam from August 25 - 27.
At the talks, the two ministers informed each other about the situation in each country, exchanged directions and measures to strengthen the Vietnam - Chile comprehensive partnership, and discussed regional and international issues of mutual concern.Read full story
-A delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), led by Nguyen Trong Nghia, a Politburo member and Secretary of the Party Central Committee, paid a working visit to Argentina from August 21 to 24, aiming to strengthen political trust and create a foundation to continue promoting cooperation between the two countries.
During the visit, Nghia, who is also the head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, held talks with Acting General Secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina Jorge Kreyness, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Uruguay Juan Castillo, and head of the international relations department of the Justicialist Party Jorge Taiana.Read full story
-Vietnamese experts have joined their Cambodian peers and Cambodian youngsters a trip held by the Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam) to historical sites related to the Pol Pot genocidal regime in the neighbouring country to collect data and stories of this period.
Participating in the train trip from Phnom Penh to Pursat from August 20-23, Associate Prof. Dr. Pham Van Thuy, deputy head of the History Department of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities under the Vietnam National University-Hanoi, said that he is moved to see with his own eyes historical sites related to the Pol Pot genocide and the fight between Vietnamese volunteer soldiers and the Pol Pot regime, as well as to directly interview and listen to stories from historical witnesses.Read full story
-The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) has recognised Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago in the northern province of Quang Ninh and neighbouring Hai Phong City as a world geological heritage site, Associate Professor Dr Tran Tan Van, former Director of the Vietnam Institute of Geosciences and Mineral Resources under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), said on August 25.
According to Van, who has participated in compiling two world heritage dossiers related to outstanding global geological values, and directly prepared documents for the recognition of the Ha Long Bay - Cat Ba Archipelago by the IUGS, the site, together with 99 others in 53 countries in world, is included on the IUGS's world geological heritage list thanks to the outstanding global values of geological history and karst geomorphology.Read full story/.
