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The Freedom House has recently issued a report which again contains prejudiced and partial assessments on internet freedom in Vietnam.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on October 28 stressed the need for the railway system to be upgraded in order to serve national development.

A workshop in Hanoi on July 21 discussed the UK’s experience in building an evaluation system for policy impact assessment reports and the feasibility of applying such a system in Vietnam.

Lawmakers are scheduled to deliberate amendments to the law on judicial assessments during the ongoing eighth sitting of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on the morning of November 25.

The Orient Commercial Joint Stock Bank (OCB) earned almost 1.12 trillion VND (48.22 million USD) in pre-tax profits in the first half of 2019, with net revenue from business operation reaching over 2.74 billion VND, equivalent to 106 percent of the result in the same time last year.

The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee on May 8 commented on the Government’s reports which gave additional assessments on the socio-economic development and state budget situation in 2018 and the first months of this year.

Civil society organisations (CSOs) recommended climate vulnerability assessments in order to help the Government implement a national adaptation plan to mitigate the impacts of and respond to climate change.

Whether a new provision or policy can bring into play its effects in the reality, it depends much on the impact assessment in the building, but assessments are exposing various limitations.

The DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Vietnam, held during February 27-28, has been spotlighted by the Czech press, with positive assessments of Vietnam’s organisational work, as well as the summit’s outcomes.

Chinese pundits have made positive comments on the Hanoi summit between the US and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), saying it was a necessary event that laid a foundation for more talks and progress in the future.

The poverty rate of ethnic minority households in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau fell by more than 3 percent each year after three years of implementation of its national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction that began in 2016.

Moody's Investors Service has upgraded the baseline credit assessments (BCAs) of 12 Vietnamese banks in its latest report released on October 30.

The capital city of Hanoi will focus on wastewater treatment systems in all industrial parks by 2020 as part of its efforts to enhance environmental protection.

A delegation of educators from ASEAN of the European Union’s Support to Higher Education in the ASEAN Region (SHARE) programme visited Hue University in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue to conduct institutional assessments on March 1.

Instead of being wary about investors, tourism management authorities should collaborate with them in preserving the natural environment, says Dr Nguyen Hoang Tri, Secretary of the National Committee for UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) in Vietnam.

The US’s 2016 annual Human Rights report acknowledges some of Vietnam’s achievements in protecting human rights, but makes biased statements and does not reflect the real situation in Vietnam, said Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson.

Some 448 million medical tests are done in the country each year, but only a third of the country’s health facilities subject their tests to external quality assessments (EQAs).

Experts from the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals and the International Finance Corporation are carrying out a two-day course in Hanoi from October 20.