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The northern province of Quang Ninh aims to have additional 11 communes meeting all new-style rural area criteria in 2017.

The National Assembly Standing Committee debated the allocation of the central budget to implement the national target programme on building new-style rural areas in the Mekong Delta region between 2016-2020, at its 7th session in Hanoi on February 21.

The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has made effort to have additional 80 new-style rural communes by 2020, or 43 percent of the total communes.

Some debatable issues of a draft law on amendments and supplements to some articles of the 2015 Penal Code are among issues discussed at the two-day seventh session of the NA Standing Committee.

A join conference between the Government and Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (VFFCC) took place on February 10 to review their cooperation last year and set out new tasks for 2017.

Hanoi plans to spend more than 6.74 trillion VND (297.3 million USD) on building new-style rural areas in 2017.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong launched a national target programme on building new-style rural areas for 2017 in Dak Rlap district on February 6.

Nghia Son commune in Tu Nghia district has became the first mountainous commune of the central province of Quang Ngai recognised as a new-style rural area.

Total debt for basic construction in the new-style rural area building programme was reduced to about 9.55 trillion VND (434 million USD) at the end of 2016 from over 15.27 trillion VND (694 million USD) early last year

Can Tho will strive to have all its 36 communes qualified as new rural areas by 2020, Hoang Kim Cuong, head of the city’s Coordination Office for Building New Rural Areas, said.

The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang has six more communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards this year, raising the province’s total to 16 communes.

The 97th birth anniversary of the founder of Hoa Hao Buddhism, Prophet Huynh Phu So, took place at An Hoa temple in Phu my township, Phu Tan district, the southern province of An Giang on December 23.

39 agricultural products and 40 outstanding companies were honoured at a programme displaying high quality agricultural products by the Vietnam General Council of Agriculture and Rural Development.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) fulfilled 352 out of 503 tasks assigned by the government as of November 10, it reported during a working session in Hanoi on November 21.

The Government has issued a plan of action for 2016-2021, focusing on six major tasks, including the implementation of measures to reform the growth model and improve the quality of growth.

A workshop in the northern province of Vinh Phuc reviewed a Swiss-funded project on community management in the national target programme on building new-style rural areas.

A conference was held in the northern province of Vinh Phuc on November 15 to review a Swiss-funded project on community management in the national target programme on building new - style rural areas

The Party and State of Laos highly value the outcomes of cooperation with Vietnam in developing the border areas between the two countries, a Lao official has said.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan has extended his best wishes to Cao Dai dignitaries and followers on the occasion of their 91st founding anniversary.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Nguyen Thien Nhan has congratulated Buddhist dignitaries, monks, nuns and followers on the 35th founding anniversary of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS).