Vietnam has made remarkable strides in developing a comprehensive, life-cycle, and gender-transformative social protection system.

Cashless parking payment is a key step in managing static traffic, solving parking issues, and serving as the underlying technology for a smart digital map of parking spaces throughout the city.

Hanoi is expected to remain at the forefront of implementing central government policies, driving innovation, and advancing the city’s economic, cultural, and social development.

Deputy Defence Minister Lt. Gen.Tran Don yesterday hosted a reception in Hanoi for the delegation from the Planning and Finance Department of the Lao Defence Ministry.

A leaders delegation of Hanoi People`s Committee led by Chairman of the municipal People`s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung started the four-day working visit to Victoria state, Australia on June 29.

During the meeting with Isabella Emmery, Vice President of the Parliament of the Federation Wallonie-Brussels, National Assembly Vice Chairman Uong Chu Luu made the remark that cooperation between the Vietnamese NA and the Parliament of the Federation Wallonie-Brussels, along with the Belgian Federal Parliament, has contributed to the two countries’ overall relations.

On June 27, while attending the second Mekong Delta Forum, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has requested Mekong Delta localities to be aware of the region’s weaknesses, carry out appropriate measures to address difficulties and pursue sustainable agricultural restructuring to ensure locals’ stable livelihoods.

The World Bank (WB) has passed a package of US$90 million to support Vietnam to strengthen its climate change and green growth agenda in line with the World Bank Group’s Climate Change Action Plan.

During the working visit to El Salvador from June 23-26, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Hoang Binh Quan A led a Vietnamese delegation to attend the 22nd Sao Paulo Forum.

Illegal activities that have been continuously deployed by China cannot change the fact that Vietnam has sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, said Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh on June 24.

This affirmation was heard by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc during a reception for former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Hanoi on June 24.

On 24 June, Representative office of The Economic & Urban was officially launched in Da Nang.

"There`s no hiding the fact that we wanted a different outcome of yesterday`s referendum. I am fully aware of how serious, or even dramatic, this moment is politically", President of the European Union Donald Tusk said on June 24 about the outcome of the referendum in the UK.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc stressed at the Government’s meeting on policy making on June 23 that is not for the progress to affect the quality, do not put the old circular and regulations to the new decree.

On June 22, at the Government Headquarter, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc hosted a reception for Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Prak Sokhon, who has an official visit to Vietnam.

On June 22, Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation Truong Thi Mai met with Ambassadors and Heads of Vietnam’s diplomatic foreign missions for the 2016-2019 tenure in Hanoi.

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Vietnam’s new National Assembly (NA) is expected to hold its first session on July 20, with the major focus being on electing a new leadership for the legislative body, the State, and the government.

President Tran Dai Quang finished the State visit to Laos from June 12-14 and to Cambodia on June 15-16. The outcomes reached during the tour are extremely important to the relations between Vietnam and Laos and Cambodia, Deputy Foreign Minister Vu Hong Nam told with the press.

On June 15, President Tran Dai Quang met with leaders of Cambodian legislature and government in Phnom Penh, assuring them that the Vietnamese Party, State and people always do their best to enhance bilateral relationship with Cambodia.

Vietnam`s export revenue of leather and footwear products reached nearly 5 billion U.S. dollars in the first five months of 2016, up 6 percent year-on-year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) on Thursday.

At the invitation of Cambodian Preah Bat Samdech Preah Norodom Sihamoni Boromneath, President Tran Dai Quang and his wife, the Vietnamese high-level delegation have begun the State-level visit to the Kingdom of Cambodia from June 15 -16.

On the sideline of the special ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers` Meeting on East Sea issue held in Kunming, Yunnan, China, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh yesterday met with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi.