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.

“Dak Lak province must grasp and bring into full play agricultural economy thinking and expeditiously perform the key task of agricultural restructuring toward a multi-value, clean, organic, circular and responsible agriculture,” said Secretary of the Dak Lak Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Dinh Trung.

Located on the Red river bank in Moc Nam commune, Duy Tien township, the traditional silk village of Nha Xa has become a famous tourist attraction in Ha Nam province with its well-known plain and jacquard mulberry silk products.

The Ministry of Justice has recently co-chaired with the United Nations Population Fund Country Office in Vietnam to organize the review of the six-year implementation of the Civil Status Law. On this occasion, Ms. Naomi Kitahara, UNFPA Representative for Vietnam, grants Vietnam Law & Legal Forum magazine an interview on the results Vietnam has achieved in civil status work as well as things that should be done in the future for fulfilling the country’s set goals.

Migration remains an issue of prime concern in Vietnam. Disparities often encountered by growing numbers of migrants were further amplified in 2021 by the unprecedented social and economic losses left behind by COVID-19 as it swept across the country and recent economic uncertainties because of disruption of global supply chains. As such, there is a critical need to identify and explore gaps in access to good governance and quality public services between migrants and permanent residents in receiving provinces as well as drivers of migration within Vietnam in 2021, which result in wide-ranging social and economic impacts in need of agile and inclusive policy responses.

After a decade of implementation, the Law on Law Dissemination and Education has helped law dissemination activities penetrate deeper into life, thus raising the people’s awareness of strictly abiding by the law.

An Giang, a southwestern province that shares a border of around 100 kilometers with Cambodia, is calling for investment in urban infrastructure, hi-tech agriculture and tourism in order to turn itself into a modern, smart, ecological province imbued with cultural identity of the Mekong River delta.

Located about 15 kilometers to the south of the capital city of Hanoi, Ha Thai lacquer craft village in Duyen Thai commune, Thuong Tin district, has become a tourist attraction with well-known lacquer products handcrafted from not only traditional materials like wood, bamboo and ceramics, but also new ones such as plastics, composites and steel.

Solutions to intensify public communications about draft policies and laws to overseas Vietnamese were discussed at a seminar in Hanoi on November 15.

As soon as a tourist enters Quat Dong traditional hand embroidery craft village in the same name commune or its surrounding areas in Thuong Tin district, he will find through windows and doors many people busily engaged indoors with hand embroidery.