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Smart planning plays a key role in developing smart cities, experts told a workshop held in Hanoi on October 22 within the framework of the ASEAN Smart Cities Summit and Expo 2020.

Information and technology (IT) firms will lead the country’s digital transformation in all sectors, said Phan Tam, Deputy Minister of Information and Communications (MIC).

Technology is the main factor to develop Vietnam’s economy, help it escape from the middle-income trap, and transition into a developed nation, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed at a forum in Hanoi on May 9.

Lao Party General Secretary and President Bounnhang Volachith said his visit to Vietnam shows that the Party and State of Laos and he himself attach great importance to enhancing ties with Vietnam.

The Party, State and people of Vietnam will do their utmost, together with Laos, to preserve and deepen the special solidarity between the two countries.

Theoretical lessons on the formation and development of Vietnam’s National Assembly (NA) from 1946 to present were reviewed at a seminar in Hanoi on December 8.

President Truong Tan Sang has called on the nation as a whole to make all-out efforts to optimise opportunities and overcome difficulties in a rapidly changing world.