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The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly wrapped up on January 11.

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly held via videoconference wrapped up on January 11 after four and a half days of sitting.

National Assembly (NA) deputies continue an online debate on issues related to amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Public-Private Partnership, the Law on Investment, the Biding Law, the Electricity Law, the Enterprise Law, the Law on Special Consumption Tax, and the Law on Enforcement of Civil Judgments; and the Eastern North-South Expres

Deputies to the 15th National Assembly (NA) debated four draft documents and their verification reports on important issues of the national economy during the first day of their first extraordinary session on January 4.

The first extraordinary session of the 15th National Assembly is scheduled to open via videoconference on January 4, linking with 62 delegations of deputies in centrally-run cities and provinces.

The Standing Committee of the 15th National Assembly (NA) will convene its sixth meeting in Hanoi in on December 8 - 10 and December 21 - 22, with preparations for an extraordinary session of the parliament among issues high on the agenda.

The Ministry of Transport has submitted a pre-feasibility report on the construction of the Eastern North-South Expressway in the 2021-2025 period.

The Ministry of Transport has submitted a proposal to the Government on the construction of nine component projects in the east of the North-South Expressway in the 2021-2025 period.

Many legislators held that the fight against COVID-19 needs to be promoted, but it is also necessary to speed up the recovery of businesses so as to keep up with the trend in the global economy.

The construction of five sub-projects of the North-South Expressway will start in May and June.

The fourth wave of COVID-19 cases, coupled with the recent rise in prices of building materials, has forced many projects to halt construction or even fall into stagnation, which would affect the disbursement of public investment this year.

Construction of Dien Chau-Bai Vot section of the North-South Expressway running the central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh started on May 22.

Law on Public-Private Partnership (PPP Law), which took effect on January 1, 2021, has created a legal framework for the implementation of transport infrastructure investment projects under the form of PPP.

The La Son-Tuy Loan expressway connecting Thua Thien-Hue province and Da Nang city, part of the North-South expressway, is now ready for opening to traffic.

The Nha Trang – Cam Lam highway has become the North – South expressway’s first section to be signed under the public private partnership (PPP) model under a contract inked on May 6 between the Ministry of Transport and Son Hai Group Company Limited.

The Ministry of Transport has said its units are expected to disburse close to 10.86 trillion VND (470 million USD) of public investment by the end of April, fulfilling 28 percent of the annual target.

The 2,109km–long North-South Expressway project, worth 5 billion USD, will revolutionise the Vietnamese transportation network by connecting the entire country for the first time in its history, according the US-based Borgen Magazine.

The Mekong Delta needs 338 trillion VND (16.5 billion USD) in the next five years to upgrade its traffic infrastructure, improve water storage and mitigate riverbank and coastal erosion.

The joint venture among Deo Ca Group, Hai Thach Investment Construction JSC and 194 Construction Investment Corporation was named the investor of the Cam Lam-Vinh Hao Highway – a section of the North-South Expressway.

With 100 percent of votes, members of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on January 11 adopted a resolution on the switching of investment format of some component projects on the Eastern North-South Expressway project in the 2017-20 period, which failed to find investors through biddings.