National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan had a meeting with President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Gabriela Cuevas Barron in Doha, Qatar on April 8 on the sidelines of the ongoing 140th Assembly of the IPU.

 Nguyen Thi Le, deputy secretary of the HCMC Party Committee and head of the committee’s Organisation Commission, was voted on April 8 as the new head of the municipal 9th People’s Council.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with Speaker of the Advisory (Shura) Council of the State of Qatar Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud on April 8.

An exhibition was opened in the northern city of Hai Phong on April 8, giving visitors an insight into historical and legal evidence proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos.

 Guided missile corvette BNS Prottoy (F112) of the Bangladesh Navy anchored at Sai Gon port on April 8, beginning its four-day friendship visit to Ho Chi Minh City.

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc is expected to meet with top-level technicians in May in HCMC on the occasion of the 2019 Workers Month.

The Philippines and China violated severely Vietnam`s sovereignty and territorial integrity over the Spratly archipelago as well as international law.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and Vice Chairwoman of the China National People’s Congress Standing Committee Shen Yueyue pledged to promote bilateral parliamentary ties at their meeting in Doha yesterday.

 Chairwoman of the National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan had a meeting with Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka Karu Jayasuriya on April 7 on the sidelines of the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU-140) in Doha, Qatar.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said she had asked leaders of Qatar to receive more Vietnamese workers as the Western Asian country is preparing for the 2022 World Cup finals.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan has stated that Vietnam wants to promote substantial development of cooperation with Georgia for the benefit of both sides. 

 Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan met with Speaker of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia Wesley W. Simina in Doha, Qatar, on April 7.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and Chairman of the State Duma of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin agreed that parliamentary cooperation is one of the important pillars of Vietnam-Russia ties and it has made a lot of developments recently.

 Vietnam treasures ties with Qatar, considering the country an important partner in the region, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan said.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan concluded her working visit to the European Parliament and left Brussels, Belgium, for Doha, Qatar, on April 6 morning to attend the 140th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU -140) and related meetings.

 Vietnamese Embassy in Seoul has opened a hotline +821020196869 to provide necessary assistance for Vietnamese nationals in the Republic of Korea (RoK) following eruption of forest fire in Goseong, Gangwon Province.

 New regulations on tontine interest rates, registration fee prices of houses and land, and internal auditing shall take force from April, 2019.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan on April 5 hailed Belgium’s Wallonia region for choosing Vietnam as the only country in Asia to set up its representative office over the past more than two decades 

Ambassador of Armenia to Vietnam Raisa Vardanyan was honoured on April 5 with the “For Peace and Friendship among Nations” insignia of the Vietnam Union of Friendship Organisations (VUFO).

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker agreed that the signing and ratification of the EVFTA should be sped up for mutual benefits, during their meeting in Brussels on April 4.