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During the meeting, the NA Standing Committee’s members will give their ideas on the NA’s law and ordinance building program in 2020. They will debate nine bills, including a draft law on the amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Insurance Business and the Law on Intellectual Property; the revised Securities Law; and the Law on exit and entry of Vietnamese citizens. An overview of the 32nd meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee They will discuss the supervision program of the NA and NA Standing Committee in 2020, as well as the report on the results of the supervision over the implementation of policies and laws on planning, managing and using urban land since the Land Law became effective in 2013 until the end of 2018. In addition, the members of the committee will consider the adjustment of administrative borders of five communes and the dissolving of a commune in Long Thanh district of southern Dong Nai province, … [Read more...] about NA Standing Committee’s 33th meeting to start on April 10

Le was elected to the new position by winning 93.54 percent of the total votes of 93 delegates at the 13th meeting of the council. Nguyen Thi Le, who has been voted as the new head of the 9th HCM City People’s Council for the remaining period of the 2016 – 2021 tenure Born in 1967 in the local Cu Chi district, she has a master’s degree in administration law. Currently, she is a member of the council. Participants also voted to dismiss Nguyen Thi Quyet Tam from the position of the Chairperson, Truong Thi Anh from Vice Chairperson. Meanwhile, Huynh Cach Mang was also removed from the position of Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee. Those officials were dismissed over retirement and position transfer. Source: VNA … [Read more...] about HCM City People’s Council gets new Chairwoman

The funeral will be organised at the National Funeral Hall at 5 Tran Thanh Tong street in Hanoi, starting from 7:30am. The burial service will take place at 5pm the same day at Vinh Hang Cemetery in the city’s Ba Vi district. After a period of serious illness, he died at 11:42am of April 4 at the Central Military Hospital 108 in Hanoi. The Party Central Committee decided that the funeral board will consist of 23 members, led by Politburo member and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. Late Lt. Gen. Dong Sy Nguyen. File photo. Dong Sy Nguyen (birth name Nguyen Huu Vu, alias Nguyen Van Dong) was born on March 1, 1923 in Quang Trung commune of Quang Trach district, the central province of Quang Binh. He began participating in revolutionary activities in 1938 and was admitted to the Party in December 1939. Nguyen served as a member of the Party Central Committee in the fourth, fifth, and sixth tenures; an alternate member of the Politburo in the fifth tenure; and … [Read more...] about State funeral to be held for Ho Chi Minh Trail general

The report on building a comprehensive national policy on response to aging population was released by the Department of Social Assistance under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs at a workshop held in Hanoi on March 29. Accordingly, Vietnam now has about 11.3 million elderly people, including about 350,000 aged 90 upwards, and 1.8 million aged 80 and above. Vietnamese people have an average longevity of 74 years and up to 70 percent of its elderly people live in rural areas. The report said 96 percent of the elderly people have public health insurance cards. Nearly 100 central- and provincial-level hospitals have geriatric departments accommodating over 8,000 elderly-prioritized beds.     Scene at the event A number of campaign initiated by the Vietnam Association of the Elderly, particularly the action month for group, have been launched effectively. Speaking at the workshop, President of the Vietnam Association of the Elderly … [Read more...] about Vietnam builds policy in response to aging population

The workshop is part of the project on promoting a fair business environment in ASEAN sponsored by the UK Prosperity Fund. In opening the event, UNDP Deputy Country Director in Vietnam Akiko Fujii emphasized that corruption is among the biggest hurdles in the path of realising sustainable development goals by 2030. She hailed Vietnam’s efforts in preventing and fighting corruption, noting that the country had ratified the UN Convention against Corruption in 2009, revised the 2017 Penal Code to include major changes in criminal treatment towards corruption crimes, and passed the new Law on Corruption Prevention and Combat in 2018. At the event. Photo: baodauthau.vn The UNDP representative pointed to a new point of the new anti-corruption law, which expands the scope of the anti-corruption fight to the private sector. She said all those efforts demonstrate Vietnam’s commitment to realising the Sustainable Development Goal 16, in which substantially … [Read more...] about Workshop discusses draft decree guiding anti-corruption law enforcement