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The country is fastening its belt and gathering strength to fight the pandemic, waiting for opportunities for economic recovery. Because of this, it would be unreasonable to increase minimum wages at this moment. National Assembly Secretary General Bui Van Cuong The National Assembly Office on October 19 held a press conference on the tentative agenda of the second session of the 15th National Assembly. VietNamNet asked: “One of the contents the National Assembly will discuss at this session is the delay of wage reform implementation. As such, reform has been delayed two times. What will wage policies be in the time to come? Will the old wage mechanism be applied, or will there be changes?” National Assembly Secretary General Bui Van Cuong said things have been prepared well for reform, because it is a very important issue which will affect the lives of civil servants and public employees. However, cadres and civil servants agree with the resolution of the 4th Plenum …

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Ambassador Phạm Hải Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN. — VNA/VNS Photo NEW YORK — Việt Nam has voiced concerns about the situation in Great Lakes countries in Africa and emphasised a need to address the root causes of instability. Ambassador Phạm Hải Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Việt Nam to the UN, upheld the role of regional cooperation and hailed efforts made to promote relations between Great Lakes countries recently during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held on Wednesday (local time) to adopt a presidential statement on the Great Lakes. He said the humanitarian situation remains worrisome, especially in eastern Congo. He expressed his concern over the plight of millions of displaced people and refugees, as well as the more than 27 million people in Congo that face crisis‑level food insecurity. In that context, he encouraged the further intensification of cooperation to implement the Peace, Security and …

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UN Deputy Secretary-General Khaled Khiari (Source: Reuters) New York (VNA) - Nguyen Phuong Tra , Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations (UN), has welcomed the formation of a new government and hoped that it will make efforts to carry out necessary reforms to bring the country out of the current crisis. Addressing the UN Security Council ’s meeting on the implementation of the council’s Resolution 1559 related to the Lebanese situation on October 20, Tra appreciated international efforts led by France and the UN to support the Lebanese people, while calling on the relevant authorities of Lebanon to make efforts to strengthen the confidence of the international community, including speeding up the investigation on the explosion in Beirut in August 2020, and urging the parties involved to exercise restraint and avoid any actions and statements that increase tensions. She also called on relevant parties to respect the territorial integrity and …

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At the event (Photo: Ministry of Foreign Affairs) Hanoi (VNA) - Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Nguyen Quoc Dung and Secretary of State of the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Soeung Rathchavy co-chaired the seventh Vietnam-Cambodia political consultation via videoconference on October 21 to discuss bilateral ties as well as regional and global issues of shared concern. Both sides shared the view that amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the two sides have made efforts to maintain all-level exchanges and meetings in various forms, and effectively made use of bilateral cooperation mechanisms. The two sides agreed to step up trade and economic recovery post-pandemic, enhance national defence-security cooperation, improve the efficiency of border management and collaboration in education, information and communications, culture-sports and people-to-people exchange. They pledged to work closely together to seek solutions to the issue of legal …

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Hanoi’s deputies to the National Assembly have called for a national vaccination strategy in 2022, with a focus on vaccine administration to children. Hanoi stands firm on pursuing safe and flexible adaptation to the Covid-19 pandemic for socio-economic development and effective control of the situation. Overview of the group discussion. Photos: The Hanoi Times Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung gave the remarks at a group discussion among National Assembly deputies held today [October 21], which is part of the second session of the 15th NA. “More drastic actions are needed to effectively address the concern of businesses,” Dung said, referring to Hanoi's recently held dialogue between the city’s leaders and the foreign business community. Dung noted the highlight in Hanoi’s efforts against the pandemic was the participation of the entire political system and the high awareness of the public in this regard. As one of the country’s …

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Head of the Central Citizen Reception Committee (under the Government Inspectorate) Nguyễn Hồng Điệp. Meetings with citizens, as well as the settlement of complaints and denunciations, are to be discussed during the ongoing National Assembly session, and is also a topic to be overseen by the Standing Committee. Head of the Central Citizen Reception Committee (under the Government Inspectorate) Nguyễn Hồng Điệp talks to Vietnamnet online newspaper about this issue. A report by the Fatherland Front shows that many provincial leaders have not held meetings with citizens for 18 months. The matter was also mentioned many times during National Assembly sessions. What do you think about this situation? I think that as social distancing regulations were applied, in 2021 the number of local leaders meeting with their citizens decreased significantly. In some localities, according to the supervision delegations of the National Assembly, many provincial leaders did not meet citizens, but …

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A dioxin remediation project at an airport in the central city of Da Nang has been completed following six years of joint efforts by Vietnam and the United States. Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense and the U.S. Embassy in the Southeast Asian country organized a ceremony at Da Nang International Airport on Wednesday to mark the completion of the project. The Vietnamese defense ministry initiated the project in August 2012 with coordination and funding worth $110 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Following the dioxin removal process, a total of 33 hectares of land is now able to be used for the expansion of the Da Nang airport. Vietnamese and U.S. representatives pose for a photo during the ceremony. Photo: Tuoi Tre The piece of land plays a significant role in the socio-economic development of the city and the central region in general, Colonel General Nguyen Chi Vinh, Deputy Minister of National Defense, said at …

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Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the U.N. upheld the role of regional cooperation and hailed efforts made to promote relations between Great Lakes countries recently during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held on October 20 to adopt a presidential statement on the Great Lakes. He said the humanitarian situation remains worrisome, especially in eastern Congo. He expressed his concern over the plight of millions of displaced people and refugees, as well as the more than 27 million people in Congo that face crisis‑level food insecurity. In that context, he encouraged the further intensification of cooperation to implement the Peace, Security and Cooperation Framework, to strengthen management of nature resources and to tackle threats posed by armed groups. The meeting was held under the chair of Cabinet Secretary for Foreign Affairs of Kenya and Council President for October Raychelle Omamo. The adopted Presidential …

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The display praises the noble sacrifice and loyalty of Vietnamese women during the wartimes and their contribution in peacetime. An exhibition displaying the images of typical Vietnamese women throughout history is open at Hoa Lo Prison Relic from October 20, 2021, to the end of May 2022. The exhibition is a meaningful activity to celebrate the 91st anniversary of the establishment of the Vietnam Women's Union (October 20, 1930 - October 20, 2021). Typical Vietnamese heroines The exhibition impresses and moves viewers through the stories of “gun-wielding women” in the two national resistance wars. Photo: Hoa Lo Prison Accordingly, the display section called “Flowers in the Prison’s Fire” introduces the examples of nine typical patriotic and revolutionary female combatants who endured brutality in French and American prisons throughout Vietnam during the wars. These typical examples are Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, the first female Secretary of the Saigon City …

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