VietNamNet Bridge – The National Assembly Standing Committee on Friday, Feb 27, discussed the draft Law on Criminal Investigations.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dinh Xuan Thao, director of the National Assembly's Institute of Legislative Studies, spoke to Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper about the need to eliminate group interests in the policy-making process.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Prime Minister instructed relevant agencies and ministries yesterday, Dec 30, to speed up the issuance of legal documents guiding the implementation of laws recently approved by the National Assembly.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Safeguarding national sovereignty is a sacred task to ensure peace and stability thus paving the way for 2015 to move forward,

VietNamNet Bridge – A recent NA decision allows addicts to be kept at detoxification centres before being sent to compulsory rehabilitation centres. But this is just one step in fighting addiction,

 The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) pledged to work closely with Vietnam to prevent and drive back the HIV/AIDS pandemic, Secretary General Martin Chungong told National Assembly Vice Chairwoman Tong Thi Phong at a meeting in Hanoi on November 30.

 Eighteen laws and 11 resolutions were passed and 12 draft laws and many important socio-economic issues considered at the eighth session of the 13th National Assembly (NA) that ended yesterday.

The 13th National Assembly passed the UN Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on November 28 with 100% of votes.

 PM Nguyen Tan Dung highlighted the combination of cooperation and struggling in orientations for the relationship between Viet Nam and China at the National Assembly (NA)’s question-and-answer-session on November 19.

VietNamNet Bridge – Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Thai Binh said at a Q&A session before the National Assembly that each ministry has an average of 5.4 deputy ministers while the regulations limit the number at four.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung laid out a series of measures to deal with public debt and bad banking loans by 2020 in his address to lawmakers yesterday.

VietNamNet Bridge – On November 19, Minister of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Pham Thi Hai Chuyen was the fourth cabinet member to be queried at the 8th National Assembly session about unemployment, job creation for workers,

 Transport Minister Dinh La Thang yesterday said growing infrastructure demand in the country needs new funding sources other than the State Budget and overseas development assistance.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies highlighted the need to make fundamental adjustments to the Civil Code to ensure human and civil rights, while debating the draft revised Civil Code at the ongoing eighth session

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday (Nov 11) suggested creating a Government agency to supervise the use of State funds by State-owned enterprises.

VietNamNet Bridge - Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and four ministers will have to answer questions raised by National Assembly (NA) deputies at a Q&A session on November 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly (NA) deputies are concerned about soaring public debts.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam will have to spend VND150 trillion, or nearly US$7.1 billion, repaying for financial aid, short-term loans and domestic borrowings next year,

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies voiced their opinions about the draft revised laws on housing and on real estate business during their plenary sitting at the legislature’s ongoing eighth session on October 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies yesterday (Oct 22) stressed the need to remove current shortcomings in the protection of Viet Nam's marine resources and environment as also national sovereignty over the nation's seas.