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.

Official Gazette issues Nos.133-138 of 2022 have recently come out with the full-text English translation of the 2022 Law on Inspection, which will come into force at the beginning of July this year.

The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs has proposed to add a group to the list of people paying compulsory social insurance.The group includes individual business households, business managers, unpaid managers of cooperatives and part-time employees.

The National Assembly Standing Committee offered opinions on the draft revised Law on Water Resources during their 21st meeting in Hanoi on March 15.

The National Assembly Standing Committee discussed some contentious issues on the revised draft Law on Bidding on March 15 as part of its ongoing 21^st session in Hanoi.

The State Bank of Vietnam is collecting comments on its draft revised Law on Credit Institutions to better ensure the safety of the banking system.

The 15th National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee will convene their 21st session in Hanoi on March 15 to scrutinize a number of draft laws, according to the NA Office.

A delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), led by its Permanent Vice Chairman Tran Thanh Man, attended the opening ceremony of the 146th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Assembly in Bahrain on March 11 (local time), which brought together nearly 2,000 delegates from nearly 140 countries worldwide.

Despite an increase in the number of district-level land use plans and provincial-level land pricing frameworks available online on local government portals in 2022 compared to 2021 as well as local authorities’ better response to citizen requests for land information, provincial and district authorities should do more to meet the mandate of disclosing information online.

The collection of public opinions on the draft revised Land Law has received warm response from the public, with many looking into specific articles and contents of the draft law, National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue noted while chairing a working session on the work in Hanoi on March 9.