This article is an excerpt from the 2022 PAPI Report and presents key findings from the 2022 PAPI citizen surveys regarding issues of citizens’ greatest concern and citizens’ assessment of governance and public administration performance at the national level in 2022. The Report records the voices of 16,117 respondents from across Vietnam, who shared their experiences of local government performance in governance, public administration and public service delivery during 2022.

69 years ago in the heart of the Muong Thanh valley, the flag “Determined to fight, Determined to win" of the Vietnam People's Army flew on the roof of the General De Castries’ bunker, marking the victory of the Dien Bien Phu campaign.

On November 9, 2022, the 6th plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee adopted Resolution 27-NQ/TW on continuing to build and complete the Vietnamese socialist rule-of-law state in the new period. Vietnam Law & Legal Forum magazine would like to introduce to readers the full text of this Resolution.

Among the 17 sustainable development goals Vietnam committed to at the 2030 Agenda, only four have been fulfilled so far and two have been delayed.

Economic diplomacy should maintain and create more economic cooperation frameworks, including investment and trade agreements, between Vietnam and the US, Vietnamese Ambassador to the US Nguyen Quoc Dung has said.

The railway sector has become a magnet for foreign investors, with firms and organizations from across the globe showing a growing appetite for the industry.

The International Law Commission (ILC) of the United Nations (UN) will begin the new quinquennium (2023-27) at the UN Office in Geneva from April 24, 2023. It is timely to review the accomplishments of the ILC in progressively developing and codifying international law in a general way during its previous 2017-22 term, and appraise the contribution of Vietnam to the ILC’s work in the establishment of a rules-based international legal order.

The Party and the State have always paid attention to improving institutions and policies for cultural development, considering it a prerequisite for making culture a spiritual foundation, an objective as well as a strong motivation for the cause of national construction and defense. This is affirmed at the Culture Workshop 2022 held last December in Bac Ninh province under the theme “Institutions, Policies and Resources for Cultural Development”. Vietnam Law & Legal Forum magazine would like to introduce to readers this article, which is based on the speech delivered by Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Van Hung, member of the Party Central Committee, at the workshop.

The Law on Belief and Religion was promulgated in 2016 with many new, open regulations, creating favorable conditions for religious organizations and believers to better exercise the right to freedom of belief and religion while ensuring the effectiveness and effect of state management of belief and religion. This was affirmed by Nguyen Van Long, Chief of the Office of the Government Committee for Religious Affairs (the Ministry of Home Affairs), at a recent interview with the Vietnam News Agency.

The signing of the Paris Agreement on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam on January 27, 1973, was a resounding victory of Vietnam’s revolutionary diplomacy in the Ho Chi Minh era, making important contributions to the common victory of the whole nation and, at the same time, leaving invaluable diplomatic lessons, including those related to national independence and international solidarity.