Cabinet members discussed several draft laws in the spirit of building a constructive government with zero tolerance toward corruption during the first two days of the Government’s monthly meeting.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on August 31 emphasised the importance of reforming working methods inside the Government at the Cabinet regular monthly meeting.

 Vietnam does not support the use of freedom of speech to insult other people or to incite extremism, damaging the good ties between Vietnam and Cambodia, Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh said.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and related meetings in Vientiane, Laos, from September 6 - 8. 

 The Mexico-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group was introduced in Mexico on September 2, taking on the task of promoting the bilateral cooperation.

 Vietnam and India signed 12 cooperation documents on September 3 during Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s official visit to Vietnam. 

 The establishment of the comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and India will create a new momentum for the development of the two countries and the whole region in general.

Raul Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Cuban Councils of State and Ministers, has congratulated the Communist Party, Government and people of Vietnam on the 71st National Day. 

"The dying crops cannot wait for meetings and discussions on how to save them, they need you to be more flexible and take quicker action," Minister-Chairman of the Government Office Mai Tien Dung said

 The National Assembly (NA) is reviewing and completing legal procedures that best suit the content of the TPP and will consider ratifying it shortly, NA Deputy Chairman Phung Quoc Hien has said.

 Foreign Minister of Singapore Dr Vivian Balakrishnan has stated that Singapore and Vietnam have potential to step up their cooperation.

  President Tran Dai Quang and Bruneian Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah have affirmed their determination to further deepen and expand the two countries’ relations in the interests of the two peoples. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the south central province of Ninh Thuan to give more specific policy commitments to win investors’ confidence. 

Vietnam’s diplomats have clearly identified one of the country’s future tasks as being to maintain a peaceful and stable environment that will contribute to protecting national independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity.

 Most departments, agencies and grassroots organisations in the central city of Da Nang have applied the ‘one-stop shop’ software system to manage procedures, with 97 per cent of daily in and out documents using the software.

 Permanent members of the People’s Councils of the Red River and northern coastal region for the 2016-2021 tenure convened their first conference in the northern province of Nam Dinh on August 26.

 The 29th Diplomatic Conference concluded in Hanoi on August 26 after five days of sitting, outlining multiple tasks for the diplomatic sectors in the time ahead.

 Defence cooperation has become one of the pillars in the strategic partnership between Vietnam and France and will be broadened in the coming time, President Tran Dai Quang has stated.

The protection of legitimate rights and interests of Vietnamese citizens and legal entities abroad is necessary and shows the State’s responsibility to citizen.

 Finance Minister Dinh Tien Dung promised to push forward with substantive reforms at a session on August 26 with a working group assigned by the Prime Minister.