Le Viêt Nam, aujourd'hui

Promising to apologize, a National Assembly member from Ho Chi Minh City has taken down an entry on his blog that “offensively” derided a fellow parliamentarian, causing a public stir.

The communist-dominated parliament of Vietnam is to subject elected leaders including the president and prime minister to annual confidence votes.

A member of the Communist-dominated parliament in Vietnam has in a rare show of dissent told PM Nguyen Tan Dung that he should resign for his mistakes in handling the economy.

The Justice Ministry has presented to the National Assembly’s Standing Committee a draft law on civil status registry, under which every citizen will be granted one single identification number to be used on all licenses. This number will remain the same throughout a holder’s life.

A number of investment programmes for agriculture, rural areas and farmers turn out to be unreasonable and costly, said a report of the National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee.

Last week Vietnam Electricity (EVN) released a report that it had suffered a loss of nearly VND10.16 trillion (US$484 million), for the first time.

Vietnam's inflation is slowing but it will still hit 19 percent by the end of this year, as one of the world's highest rates, the National Assembly 's Economic Committee has forecast.

HANOI—Vietnamese lawmakers approved Truong Tan Sang as the next president Monday, as the communist country moves to cement its leadership for the next five years at a time of major economic challenges.

Vietnam’s National Assembly opens today after a series of actions last year that suggest the top legislative body is growing more assertive and willing to criticize the government.

The streets of Hanoi may be festooned with election posters, but the people are not showing the enthusiasm one might expect in the run up to Sunday's election.

"We received reliable information and data from the banks related to the case of troubled Vietnam Shipbuilding Industry Group (Vinashin), asserting that the debts of Vinashin were estimated at up to 120 trillion dong, not just the 86 trillion dong as reported," Le Quang Binh, Chair of the Committee of Defense - Security of Vietnam National Assembly said in the discussions of the socio-economic development group of National Assembly on October 22.

Hanoi - Vietnam's National Assembly has been polling its members to assess support for the government's agenda, a sign of unusual levels of dissent, officials said Wednesday.

The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Wednesday rejected the government’s proposed changes to resource consumption taxes, saying the newly suggested rates were much lower than required.