The draft Law revising the 2015 Statistics Law is scheduled to be passed by the National Assembly at its 2021 year-end session. On this occasion, Nguyen Thi Huong, General Director of the General Statistics Office of Vietnam has a talk with correspondents from the Vietnam News Agency on the implementation of, as well as noteworthy amendments to, the 2015 Statistics Law.

Vietnam has made remarkable achievements in ensuring gender equality, empowering women, and promoting women’s participation in political leadership. According to the latest report of World Economic Forum on Gender Gap in 2021, Vietnam scores 0.701 on a scale from 0 to 1 in terms of gender gap index, ranking 87 out of 156 countries.

National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on July 20 called on deputies to uphold their sense of responsibility and raise initiatives to help the legislature improve its operational quality and efficiency.

The 2020 PAPI Report, released on April 14, assesses citizen experiences with national and local government performance in governance, public administration, and public service delivery at the provincial level. Apart from national and provincial findings on governance and public administration performance from permanent and temporary residents , the PAPI Report had a special section to look into drivers of migration inside and out of Vietnam. This article introduces findings from this thematic discussion in the report.

The 2020 Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Report assesses citizen experiences with national and local government performance in governance, public administration, and public service delivery at the provincial level. Apart from findings on governance and public administration performance from permanent residents, in 2020, the PAPI research outreached temporary residents in six largest internal migrant-receiving provinces to understand how temporary residents perceive of and experience with local governments’ performance.

The 2020 Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index Report detailed findings on how provinces performed across the eight PAPI dimensions (Participation at Local Levels, Transparency in Local Decision-making, Vertical Accountability Toward Citizens, Control of Corruption in the Public Sector, Public Administrative Procedures, Public Service Delivery, Environmental Governance, and E-Government).

On May 23, voters across the country cast ballots to elect their representatives at the 15th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-26 tenure.

On the occasion of the 131^st birthday of President Ho Chi Minh (May 19) and the election of deputies to the 15^th National Assembly and all-level People's Councils for the 2021-26 tenure (May 23), Prof. Dr. Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, has written an article titled “A number of theoretical and practical issues on socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam.” 

The 2020 Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) Report, released on April 14, 2021, shows an incremental improvement in national governance and public administration performance during the 2016-21 government term.

Election constitutes a fundamental, sacred and noble right of the people in the modern world today, reflecting the degree of state democracy, social consensus as well as political, legal and cultural identities of each nation. On the occasion of the upcoming election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and all-level People’s Councils, the 2021-26 tenure, let’s take an overall look at Vietnam’s current election law.