Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong meets staff at the Academy of Politics in Ha Noi yesterday. — VNA/VNS Photo Tri Dung Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has urged the Academy of Politics to step up scientific research and international co-operation to meet renewal requirements. At a meeting with lecturers and cadets of the academy on the occasion of its 60th anniversary in Ha Noi on Saturday, the Party leader asked the academy to pay more attention to improving the quality of scientific research programmes. Trong said that the academy needed to effectively implement the Resolution of the 11th National Congress and speed up the "follow the moral example of President Ho Chi Minh" movement. After 60 years of development, the Academy of Politics, a subsidiary of the Ministry of National Defence, has become the country's leading scientific training, research centre and on this occasion was awarded the Gold Star, Viet Nam's noblest order. It has trained tens of … [Read more...] about Party leader urges politics academy to boost research
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VN, US hold 5th political, security, defense dialogue
VGP - The 5th Vietnam-US political, security, and defense dialogue took place in Hanoi on June 20 under the chairmanship of Deputy Foreign Minister Le Luong Minh and Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro. During the annual event, delegates from the two countries expressed their pleasures at the developments of the bilateral relations in various fields since the 4th dialogue in Washington DC last June. They also exchanged measures to boost the ties in time to come. Both sides agreed to step up exchange of high-ranking delegations and cooperation in highly prioritized areas like economics, trade, invsetment, science and technology, education, climate change adaptation, and surmounting war legacies. The two countries vowed to beef up cooperation in prevention of weapon of mass destruction proliferation, anti-terrorism, drug and prostitution prevention, maritime security, natural disaster relief, and international peace keeping activities. Regarding … [Read more...] about VN, US hold 5th political, security, defense dialogue
State President meets with former political prisoners
Established in 1997, the delegation of former political prisoners in Ho Chi Minh City includes 107 cadres. During the resistance wars, they overcame great danger and difficulties to turn imperialists' prisons into schools. In their daily lives today, they are still contributing to socio-economic development. During the meeting with the State President, they showed their emotion about the care from the State and Party, and expressed their thoughts about big issues of the country, hoping that the Party and State continued to have policies to increase the country's position. State President praised the contributions of former political prisoners, applauding Ho Chi Minh City authority for well implementing the Party and State policies for former political prisoners. He said he hoped that senior political prisoners would continue to make contributions to the revolutionary process./. … [Read more...] about State President meets with former political prisoners
27 b. dong added to the program of social political credit
Accordingly, 20 billion dong is to be used for lending to the poor and more than 07 billion dong for housing lending to the poor according to the Decision No. 167/2008/QĐ-TTg. Madam Loan assigned Quang Ngai Bank for Social Policies to coordinate with related agencies and localities in steering, controlling and supervising the fund disbursement at localities, to take the initiative in fund adjustment among localities in order to implement the plan well. Minh Thien … [Read more...] about 27 b. dong added to the program of social political credit
Army unit urged to enhance Party and political work
PANO - A delegation of the General Department of Politics has inspected the implementation of Party and political work of Military Zone 1 in 2013. Military Zone 1 was praised for its detailed measures to conduct Party and political work, making contributions to fulfilling assigned missions and building the strong Party organization and a comprehensively strong unit. In the coming time, the zone should continue to actively understand troops' thought, fight against the ""Peaceful evolution"" of hostile forces, and respond well to criticism and self-criticism under the Resolution of the 4th session of the 11th Party Central Committee on Party building. Translated by Pham Huy … [Read more...] about Army unit urged to enhance Party and political work