Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 5 sent a letter of greetings to the Vietnamese community in Canada and the world over on the occasion of the lunar New Year.

 Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong visited police officers, staff of the National Load Dispatch Centre (NLDC) and environmental workers of Hanoi who were on duty on the last night of the Year of the Dog on February 4.

 Nguyen Bích Lam, director general of the Statistics Office, talks to VNA about what the country will do to maximise its resources to make the nation stronger.

 Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, Minister of Health, speaks to Labour Weekend about measures to improve health examination and treatment quality at hospitals in 2019.

Le Thi Thu Hang, director of the Press Information Department and Spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks to the World & Vietnam newspaper about VN’s foreign relations in 2018

Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong extended Tt greetings to leaders of the Party, State, Vas well as all Vietnamese people in and outside the country at a meeting in Hanoi yesterday.

 Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong extended Tet greetings to leaders of the Party, State, Vietnam Fatherland Committee as well as the whole Vietnamese people in and outside the country at a get-together in Hanoi on February 1.

A delegation of Party, State, National Assembly, Government leaders on February 1 paid tribute to late President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on the occasion of the 89th founding anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

 Authorities at all levels in HCMC have stressed the need to speed up administrative reform in order to reduce troubles and offer support for local residents and businesses, and hence create a more favorable business environment.

 Ambassadors of Canada, New Zealand, Norway, and Switzerland to Vietnam have delivered a special Tet message during a recent fact-finding visit to disavantaged students at Nguyen Dinh Chieu Primary and Secondary School, Hanoi.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam, and Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army Luong Cuong have been promoted from the rank of Senior Lieutenant General to General.

The Prime Minister’s Working Group on January 29 conducted an inspection at the Hai Phong Port to learn the reasons behind and specify the responsibilities of the agencies concerned.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security and the Republic of Korea’s (RoK) Supreme Prosecutors’ Office have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in the prevention and combat of cross-border crimes.

 Representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia visited several Vietnamese women imprisoned in Selangor state on January 29.

 Vietnam strongly condemns the terror bomb attacks on a Catholic cathedral in Jolo island city in the southern Philippine province of Sulu on January 27, spokesperson of the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry Le Thi Thu Hang has stated. 

 Deputy Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dung visited Myanmar on January 28 in his role as Special Envoy of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 Nguyen Thanh Tai, former permanent vice chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee in the 2011-2015 tenure, was again charged with alleged violations of regulations on the management of State assets at a public music center.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has delivered Vietnam’s strong message, aspiration, and determination to become a “country of renovation and creativity” when engaging in every activity of the World Economic Forum 2019 in Davos, Switzerland.

 The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) working group of the UN Human Rights Council adopted a preliminary report on the third review of Vietnam at a session at the UN headquarters in Geneva on January 25. 

 Vietnam has joined countries’ call for UN agencies, including the UN Security Council, to coordinate and help countries and regional organisations in dealing with climate change at an open debate of the UN Security Council on January 25.