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HCM City (VNA) - HCM City’s Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee has expressed its appreciation of the southern city’s Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS)’s active engagement in local COVID-19 response over the last year, Standing Vice Chairman of the committee Nguyen Thanh Trung told a conference on January 26. The conference was held by the Executive Board of the VFF committee to review Buddhist affairs last year and map out orientations for 2021. Trung said the VBS proved itself an important VFF member and became a symbol of national unity. Recognising its achievements in Buddhist affairs in 2020, he also praised the VBS for proactively supporting the city in combating COVID-19 and joining humanitarian, charitable, and social welfare programmes. Such efforts have helped inspire and promote patriotism and consolidate the national great unity while contributing to developing HCM City as a civilised, modern city with a good quality of life, he said. The conference … [Read more...] about HCM City’s Buddhist unit hailed for active engagement in COVID-19 response

They said the country’s greatest success is in the economic field. Beginning as a backwards agriculture-reliant nation, Vietnam has become an emerging market focusing on production and trade. The poverty rate has fallen significantly while average annual per capita income has improved considerably and progress has been seen in social indicators. … [Read more...] about Foreign experts herald Vietnam’s successes

According to nurse Vuong Mai Phuong who gave treatment to Hoa, she was hospitalized at the state of unconsciousness, low blood pressure and weak pulse. Though the case was not complicated, she might suffer myocardial infarction, threatening her life if the soldier failed to give her timely first aid. … [Read more...] about Uncle Ho’s soldier saves girl in distress

Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the document sub-committee, has delivered the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s report on documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress, pointing out many new and outstanding issues in the orientations for the next 10 years. He presented the report at the opening session of the congress, in Hanoi on January 26. The overall development goal for the 2021-2025 tenure and subsequent years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, ruling capacity, and combatant strength; build a clean and comprehensively strong Party and political system; enhance the people’s trust in the Party, State, and the socialist regime; inspire aspirations for a prosperous and happy country and bring into play the will and strength of the great national solidarity in combination with the strength of the era; comprehensively and concertedly promote reforms, industrialisation, and modernisation; … [Read more...] about New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade

Also among guests are former Politburo members, former Secretaries of the Party Central Committee, former Presidents of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee, former Vice State Presidents, former Vice National Assembly Chairpersons, former Deputy Prime Ministers, former members of the Party Central Committee from the third to seventh tenures, and members of the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s Inspection Commission. … [Read more...] about Press release on opening session of 13th National Party Congress