Former Politburo member and former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung was conferred with a 55-year Party membership badge at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 24.
ASEAN was established on August 8, 1967, with five founding members, namely Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. Now the bloc has 10 member nations.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked the Vietnam Post and Telecommunication Group (VNPT) and the telecommunications sector to become a spearhead sector.
As many as 418 lawmakers, or 81.63 percent of the total, agreed to relieve Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung of his post during the 13th National Assembly’s 11th session in Hanoi on April 6.
Vietnam wishes for continued support from the international community, including the World Bank (WB), to fulfill its development goals, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung told WB Country Director.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung reported on the Government’s and his performance during the 2011 – 2016 term to the National Assembly deputies at the ongoing last meeting of the 13th parliament.
Vietnam is speeding up reform, improving national governance capabilities and upholding democracy, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung assured General Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his Laos counterpart Thongsing Thammavong have agreed to continue giving priority to reinforcing and expanding the Vietnam-Laos special relationship.
The Vietnamese and Lao Prime Ministers will chair a ceremony on March 16 to mark the completion of a project on increasing and upgrading border markers along the the two countries’ shared boundary.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung requested fighting saltwater intrusion as a key political task during a conference in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on March 7.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has asked localities included in the Project Adjusting Hanoi Capital Metropolitan Construction Planning to bring into full play their potential and advantages, especial
PM Nguyen Tan Dung raised concerns over recent complicated developments in the East Sea at a discussion that sought to protect peace, prosperity in the Asia-Pacific in Sunnylands on Feb. 16 (US time).
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.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and a high-level delegation left for the US on February 14 to attend the ASEAN – US Summit slated for February 15-16 in California.
The Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs on February 3 gave the test results to families of 94 martyrs who were buried in the Vietnam – Laos Friendship Cemetery in Nghe An province.