Top Legislator Urges Enhanced Information Dissemination on National Assembly, People’s Councils

National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on August 8 urged the staff of the Dai Bieu Nhan Dan (The People's Representative) Newspaper, including its collaborators, to change their mindset and vision, promoting the newspaper’s role as the one of the legislature. The top legislator underscored the newspaper’s important role in disseminating the Party’s guidelines and policies, the State’s laws, and in reflecting the activities of the NA, its agencies and People’s Councils, while serving as a bridge between the legislature and voters nationwide. Vietnam is shifting from a “governance-oriented” approach to lawmaking toward an “adaptive” and development-enabling approach, ensuring sufficient flexibility to harness new technologies while upholding core principles and values as well as system security and safety. The working trip to Italy from September 7-11 by Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Review Assoc. Prof. Dr. Duong Trung Y has been a success, elevating the journal’s profile while driving Vietnam – Italy ties. The State visit to Vietnam by King of Thailand Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajiraklaochaoyuhua and Queen Suthida Bajrasudhabimalalakshana holds not only political significance but also serves as a continuation of the friendship and close ties between the Thai Royal Family, Government and people and the Vietnamese Government and people. PM Le Minh Hung's meetings with foreign leaders on the sidelines of the 18th BRICS Summit, Vietnam and the US signing a five-year MoU on health cooperation, and the 32nd meeting of the ASEAN Senior Level Committee on Financial Integration are among news highlights on September 14. Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung noted that despite lasting just over 24 hours, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung’s schedule was intensive and substantive. General Secretary and President To Lam said Vietnam is entering a new stage of development, which requires the country to remain steadfast in its principles and inherit past achievements while making stronger breakthroughs in thinking and action to pursue fast and sustainable development. The meetings and exchanges helped strengthen political trust, bilateral cooperation and coordination at multilateral forums, while creating further momentum for Vietnam’s relations with partners and helping seize opportunities for national development. Affirming that Saudi Arabia is one of Vietnam’s most important partners in the Middle East, PM Hung expressed his pleasure at the positive development of bilateral relations in recent years, and voiced his wish to work with Saudi Arabia to further develop the bilateral relationship in a more effective and substantive manner, for the benefit of the two countries' people. Thanking President Ndayishimiye and the Burundi Government for supporting the effective operation of Lumitel, the telecommunications joint venture of Vietnam’s Viettel Group in Burundi, Prime Minister Le Minh Hung proposed that Burundi continue facilitating Lumitel’s participation in e-government and digital transformation projects, while enabling it to expand investment and business activities, making it a symbol of bilateral cooperation. PM Le Minh Hung's participation in the 18th BRICS Summit, his bilateral activities on the sidelines of the summit, and NA President Tran Thanh Man's working visit to Submarine Brigade 189 are among news highlights last weekend. ​The working trip reaffirmed Vietnam's foreign policy of proactive and active integration into the world, and multilateralisation and diversification of external relations. It also helped to strengthen ties with partners, broaden avenues for cooperation, and enhance Vietnam's role and standing at regional and global multilateral mechanisms. At a meeting with staff of the Vietnamese Embassy and representative agencies in New Delhi on September 13, PM Hung said that officials and employees working overseas must firmly grasp the Party’s new mindset and policies on foreign affairs as well as overseas Vietnamese affairs, including the Politburo's Resolution No. 23-NQ/TW on overseas Vietnamese. NA President Man urged naval officers and personnel to thoroughly grasp and fully understand the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws regarding military and national defence affairs, with a particular focus on the "Strategy for Protecting the Fatherland in the New Situation" and the "Strategy for Sustainable Development of Vietnam’s Marine Economy to 2030, with a Vision to 2045." Vietnam's own development model centres on people, institutional reform, modern governance and science and technology, while ensuring harmony among economic growth, social equity and environmental protection, PM Hung said, affirming that Vietnam stands ready to work with BRICS in a spirit of responsibility, goodwill and substantive cooperation to create a peaceful, prosperous, sustainable and inclusive future for all countries and people. The visit will provide strong momentum to translate leaders’ commitments into concrete outcomes. Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to step up cooperation and economic connectivity in a mutually complementary manner, with new breakthroughs and qualitative advances, striving to raise two-way trade to 25 billion USD from the current 22 billion USD in a balanced and sustainable direction. Affirming that Vietnam regards Ethiopia as an important partner in Africa, PM Hung called for stronger political trust and more delegation exchanges, especially among ministries, sectors and businesses, to explore trade, investment and business opportunities. The frequency of high-level visits does not tell the whole story, but at the very least it reflects clear trust at the highest leadership level, which can then spread to government agencies and other stakeholders in both countries. It also demonstrates unprecedented efforts to translate trust into concrete results, despite practical obstacles that remain, primarily in the cultural, economic and financial spheres. The two countries upgraded their relations to a Strategic Partnership in June 2013, becoming the first two ASEAN countries to establish such a partnership with each other. They then upgraded the relationship to an Enhanced Strategic Partnership in 2015 and a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in May 2025. A prominent common feature of the recent visits is that high-level diplomacy has gone beyond consolidating political relations and focused more strongly on areas that directly serve development. Trung said the visits achieved the objectives and requirements set out, with important results for Vietnam's relations with Russia and France as well as the country's development in the new period. PM Hung noted that Vietnam is transforming its development model toward greater reliance on science and technology, innovation and digital transformation, affirming that Vietnam wishes to strengthen its long-term partnership with the AIIB, particularly in strategic infrastructure develo