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Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has expressed his hope that the Netherlands will share experience in responding to climate change with Vietnam, especially in dealing with rising sea levels in Ho Chi Minh City and coastal localities.

At a reception for the newly-appointed Netherlands’ Ambassador Jozef Willem Scheffers in Hanoi on March 26, PM [...]

Economic experts and scientists gathered in Ha Noi yesterday to discuss measures to mitigate the impacts of the global economic crisis on Viet Nam’s economy.
Many delegates agreed that the crisis would continue and that its impacts on the country’s economy would only worsen.
Viewing stimulus policies from other countries and Viet Nam’s measures to cope with [...]

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and leaders of nine ministries and three provinces of Ninh Binh, Quang Binh and Thua Thien-Hue took part in an online conference on March 27 to assess socio-economic development in the three provinces in the first quarter of this year.

In the reviewed period, the three provinces achieved relative [...]

The Government will compile a list of procedures, examine and remove those that are unnecessary as it seeks to provide fresh impetus to the administrative reform process, a senior official said last Friday.

This would be the first stage of the project, said Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (photo), head of the Government Office and chairman [...]

The city’s districts and wards should stay focused during the programme to eliminate lower-level people’s councils while ensuring their normal work flow, the municipal adminstration directed in a conference last week.

The leaders of district and ward administrations should also understand the policy outlined in an array of National Assembly resolutions and Government decrees dealing [...]

In a meeting with the Prime Minister’s working group on administrative formalities regarding the creation of a survey on unnecessary formalities, an official from Hanoi complained: “Some communes have reported having 30 kinds of formalities, but then after being urged to carefully do statistics, they said they had 50.”

Citizens waiting at the Hanoi Department [...]

In his first question and answer session in front of National Assembly, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh discussed the encroachment of people upon historical and cultural relic sites and abuse of religious sites.
 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh.

The minister said that most of the encroachment cases happened [...]

The Ministry of Home Affairs is working on a project to discover, foster and use talents to submit to the prime minister this October.

The prime minister in July 2007 assigned the Home Affairs Ministry to compile a decree on the policy to encourage talented people to work for state agencies. However, braindrain has continued [...]

Answering National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee deputies on March 20 about the US$1 billion economic stimulus package, Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc said that it was difficult for the government to consult the NA because the NA doesn’t convene very often.
 Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc.

To support 62 poor [...]

President Nguyen Minh Triet praised the Military Medical Institute’s outstanding achievements in training and scientific research and its contributions to the development of the national health care sector at a ceremony held on March 10 to celebrate the institute’s 60th anniversary.

Photo: VOV
For the occasion, President Triet presented the institute with the Gold Star Order [...]