A Vietnamese senior official has emphasised the need to further expand
international cooperation to meet millennium development goals and
sustainable
development when addressing an UN meeting.
General Secretary Nong Duc Manh and
other senior officials of the Communist Party of Vietnam received a
number of best-wishing delegations on February 1 on the Party’s 80th
anniversary.
The first Representative Congress of
Ethnic Minority Groups of Ho Chi Minh City opened on Dec. 27,
attracting 486 delegates from 26 ethnic minority groups in the city.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has
approved a plan to include instruction on the State’s fight against
corruption in education and training curricula in the nation’s schools.
The executive committee of the Vietnam-Hungary Friendship Association of Hanoi
gathered for consultation in the capital city on Nov. 28 to discuss activities
for the 2009-2014 term.
The Ministry of Justice and the UN
Development Programme (UNDP) on Nov. 27 kicked off a project to
strengthen access to justice and the protection of rights in Vietnam.
A delegation of the Communist Party of
Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation, headed by
Deputy Head Nguyen Manh Hung, paid a working visit to Mexico from Nov.
20-23.
Minister of Information and
Communications Le Doan Hop praised the rapid development of the press
both in terms of quantity and quality and the manner in which it has
fulfilled its important role in ideology and in orienting the society
in recent years.
The RoK cabinet has
passed the immigration law, revised, that asks all foreigners of 17
years of age upward to give their fingerprints and pose for photographs
at the border gate for entrance into the country.
Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has
called on the chiefs of each and every agency to uphold high sense of
responsibility in the fight against corruption.
The UNSC has adopted a
resolution drafted by Vietnam that calls for int'l
community and member states to ensure women have full participation in
all stages of conflict settlement and post-conflict reconstruction.
Front officials from Laos, China,
Cuba and Cambodia have shared joy, warm sentiments and durable
friendship with their Vietnamese counterparts while attending the
seventh National VFF Congress.
International lawyers were invited to a
workshop in Hanoi on August 19-20 to share experiences on a bill on
access to information, which is set to be finalised by early September.
The Sea Tourism Environment Protection
Week opened in the southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on June
28 with a call for residents to get directly involved in environmental
clean-up and conservation work.
