The sixth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee opened in Hanoi on October 3 under the chair of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

With a view to reducing personnel redundancy and ensuring administrative leadership in disadvantaged areas, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on October 7 inked the first-ever regulation on personnel.

At the beginning of the Year of the Rooster, ministers share with Tin Tuc newspaper, Vietnam News Agency, breakthrough solutions to implementing socio-economic tasks in 2017 in the spirit of a constructional and active government.

The 14th National Assembly (NA) adopted a resolution on grant of e-visas on a pilot basis for foreigners entering Vietnam during its second session that concluded in Hanoi on November 23.

State budget overspending will be reduced to below 3.5 percent of GDP by 2020, while public debts, government debts and the country’s foreign debts will not exceed 65 percent, 54 percent and 50 percent, respectively, of GDP annually in the 2016-2020 period.