Government in Vietnam

  • Vietnam PM withdraws from contest for Communist Party chief

    VIETNAM, 2016/01/28 Vietnam's prime minister has withdrawn from a contest to become the Communist Party chief, clearing the way for his rival to keep the post in what appears to be a compromise to present a united party to the country. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had mounted a last-minute challenge during the ongoing party congress next being excluded from an official inventory of candidates for members of a key party panel. Had he continued his challenge, he could have become part of the Central Committee, and subsequently could have been in the race for party general secretary.

  • Training on the role of elected bodies in budgetary process

    VIETNAM, 2012/12/22 Finance and Budget Committee of the National Assembly recently held a training course for representatives of the People's Councils of provinces and cities about the role of elected bodies in budgetary process.  At the training course, participants listened to Dr. Anwar Shar, Senior Advisor of World Bank, give lectures on budgetary planning, assessment and approval; Reform of budgeting methods and practices; Budgetary implementation-the process of law enforcement agencies; budget implementation-Parliamentary oversight. Dr. Jaya Josie, Former Vice Chairman of South African Finance Committee lectured on the topic “Towards fiscal decentralization - a lesson from South Africa; Country development: Implications for Parliament and the legislatures in South Africa.

  • ADB loans support development programmes

    VIETNAM, 2012/12/22 The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide US$251 million in loans to help Vietnam improve education quality, enhance power transmission network capacity, and strengthen flood and drought risk management and mitigation The three loans agreements were signed in Hanoi on December 21 by Nguyen Van Binh, Governor of the National Bank of Vietnam, and Tomoyuki Kimura, ADB Country Director for Vietnam.
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