(LSO) – Many administrative procedures in the field of business registration authorised to be performed by the Department of Planning and Investment have been done at the province’s public administrative service centre following the “four on-the-spots” approach. The “four on-the-spots” method refers to four stages of handling a public administrative procedure, including receiving the enquiry, verfifying the enquiry, approving...

Moscow (VNA) – Representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy and relevant agencies participated in the 21st Summer Diplomatic Games in Russia’s Tver province on August 24. Representatives from the Vietnamese Embassy and relevant agencies participate in the 21st Summer Diplomatic Games in Russia’s Tver province on August 24. (Photo: VNA) The Vietnamese officials competed in the four categories of football,...

Hanoi (VNA) - The Government has adopted an intellectual property strategy setting goal to further improve Vietnam’s global innovation index (GII), Vietnam Government Portal (VGP) reported. Under the strategy, the Government expects the number of registered inventions will increase by 16-18 percent annually. The number of applications for registration of industrial designs and marks is expected to increase by...

NDO - The Party Central Committee’s Commission for Communication and Education held a ceremony in Hanoi on August 22 to launch an online competition on the history of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Deputy Head of the Party Commission for Communication and Education Nguyen Thanh Long speaking at the launching. Speaking at the launching, Deputy Head of the Party...

NDO/VNA – Youth union delegations from Vietnam’s Quang Tri and Laos’s Savannakhet provinces held talks and signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on cooperation in Quang Tri on August 22. At the signing ceremony (Photo: VNA) The MoU was the result of discussions at the talks on measures to boost bilateral cooperation in the coming time in line with...

Hanoi (VNA) – A total of 2,402 out of 3,474 communes in the Red River Delta and the north central region (69.1 percent) had met the standards of new-style rural areas as of the end of July, according to the central steering office of the new-style rural area building programme. Illustrative photo (Source: VNA) The National Target Programme on...

The exhibition will take place in Ho Chi Minh City from September 11-14. Nguyen Dinh Anh, director of the Department of Communication, Emulation and Awards under the Health Ministry, said the exhibition will be the biggest of its kind so far with 600 pavilions. Exhibitors will come from 25 countries and territories worldwide, with Germany attending for the...

Binh Dinh (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 20 to recognise An Nhon township and Hoai Nhon district as meeting new rural development criteria. Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (C) at the event (Photo: VNA) Since the launch of the new rural development programme a...

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 250 documents, objects, photos and documentaries featuring Vietnam’s achievements during the 50-year implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s Testament are on display at the Hanoi-based Ho Chi Minh Museum. At the exhibition (Photo: VNA) The exhibition focuses on themes like the liberation of South Vietnam and national reunification (1969-1975), national construction and defence (1975-1986),...

HCM City (VNA) – The Vietnam-Cambodia border friendship exchange programme at the level of High Command will take place in the southern province of An Giang from August 27 to 28. Major General Phung Quoc Tuan, Deputy Political Commissar of the Border Guard, speaks at the press conference. (Photo: VNA) Numerous activities will be held during the programme to...