The Ministry of Home Affairs has proposed the Government build a plan for salary reforms, in which the lowest wage in the public sector will be increased to the regional minimum wage of employees at enterprises.

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.

After two decades of implementing the Judicial Reform Strategy under the Party’s resolutions, judicial reforms within people’s courts have recorded remarkable achievements, helping raise the position and prestige of courts. In order to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 6th plenum of the 13th Central Party Committee, it is a need to further renew the organizational apparatus and operation of people’s courts toward building the system of independent, professional, modern, equitable, civilized and incorruptible people’s courts serving the Fatherland and the people.

The 2022 Law on the Implementation of Grassroots Democracy lays a firm foundation for the implementation of socialist democracy, the people’s right to mastery and self-governance role, thus contributing to effectively implementing the motto “People know, people discuss, people do, people monitor”.

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.

As a supervision and education measure for under-18 offenders, community-based conciliation is provided for the first time in the 2015 Penal Code and the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code, marking a turning point in Vietnam’s policies on criminal handling of juvenile delinquents in compatibility with current global trends in juvenile justice. This measure is different from the other two judicial measures[1] applicable to under-18 offenders as it involves more active participation of victims and their representatives in criminal proceedings, and facilitates the use of opinions of victims during the conciliation process for handling juvenile offenders.

By 2030, the country will have 140,000 cooperative groups with 2 million members, 45,000 cooperatives with eight million members, and 340 unions of cooperatives with some 1,700 members.

The National Assembly Standing Committee wrapped up the 20th session on February 15.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the third session of the Government’s Steering Committee for Administrative Reform on February 3, stressing that administrative reform must center on people and enterprises.

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.