A Vietnamese delegation joined others of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and India in the Mekong-Ganga Senior Officials' Meeting in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on August 1.

The Ministry of Construction recently submitted to the Government a set of policy options for revision of the 2014 Housing Law of which the most controversy one is the idea of setting a definite term for apartment ownership.

The General Statistics Office of Vietnam and the Vietnam Institute of Agricultural Engineering and Post-Harvest Technology on May 25 were elected to the Governing Councils of the Statistical Institute for Asia and the Pacific and the Centre for Sustainable Agricultural Mechanization under the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.

One of the strategic breakthrough issues identified by the 13th National Party Congress is the strong development of science, technology and innovation. Currently, in the context of safe, flexible adaptation to and effective control of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is necessary to continue to make institutional breakthroughs for development of science, technology and innovation to create leapfrog changes in labor productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness, meeting the requirements of growth model renewal and economic recovery and development.

Artificial intelligence products have been used in all sectors in Vietnam, such as public administration, transport, healthcare, banking and industries, in tandem with digital transformation.

The Vietnamese Party, State and Government have always highly appreciated the role and contributions of the business community, and at the same time understand and share the difficulties faced by firms, especially amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son met with Speaker of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea Park Byeong-seug and the RoK’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Hong Nam-ki in Seoul on February 11.

Deputy Foreign Minister Pham Quang Hieu spoke to The gioi & Viet Nam (The World and Viet Nam Report) online newspaper about Vietnam’s active participation in the field of international law and the strategy of raising the country's voice in this field, contributing to improving national prestige and position.

Vietnam has set a target to speed up the development of science and technology for the 2021-30 period with the establishment of modern research and development centers in both public and private sectors as a core mission objective.

By 2025, Vietnam expects to build a database on 4,000 dossiers of foreign technologies, acquire 400 technologies from abroad, and master 10 technologies. The respective figures are expected to reach 10,000, 1,000 and 30 by 2030.