Viewpoints on developing Vietnamese culture in the Draft Political Report to the 14th National Party Congress
Monday, November 10, 2025, 20:45 (GMT+7)
The Draft Political Report submitted to the 14th National Party Congress affirms that culture is an internal resource and driving force for development and is placed on an equal footing with economy, politics, and environment. That reflects a new perspective and approach, with clear goals, anticipated challenges, and solutions to realise the vision of cultural development in the new era
Thoroughly grasping and implementing the principle of “The People are the root”, further strengthening mass mobilisation work in the era of national ascent
Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 18:24 (GMT+7)
In today’s context of globalisation, digital transformation, and ever-deepening international integration, the Party’s mass mobilisation work is not only the vital bridge binding the Party closely with the People, but also the means through which endogenous strength is unleashed, and the aspiration for prosperous and happy development is kindled.
New political upheavals in the Europe
Monday, September 30, 2019, 06:59 (GMT+7)
In 2019, the European Union (EU) held elections that would play a decisive role in this bloc’s future when the regional and global politics were experiencing major, complex transformations. Those included the election to the European Parliament and the elections of key positions, such as European Commission (EC) President, European Central Bank President, and High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Key role of the state economic sector in Vietnam’s socialist-oriented market economy undeniable
Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 10:02 (GMT+7)
Promoting the state economic sector’s key role in the socialist-oriented market economy is of importance to maintaining the society’s stability and facilitating the national economy’s development. Our country’s 30-year-plus reform has proved that viewpoint and negated all distortions of this economic sector’s role
Enhancing the quality of training and retraining military cadres oriented towards their working positions
Thursday, March 28, 2019, 08:44 (GMT+7)
The Party always attaches much importance to the training and retraining of cadres. In response to the requirements of Homeland protection in the new situation, it is crucially important to introduce measures for the enhanced quality of training and retraining cadres within the military, making them fully capable of their assigned tasks
The Communist Party of Vietnam initiates and leads Doi Moi for the country to be well on the way to socialism
Thursday, September 06, 2018, 10:03 (GMT+7)
The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) co-organized their 14th theoretical symposium in Ho Chi Minh City, which highlighted Vietnam’s experience during its “Doi Moi” (Renewal) process and China’s open-door and reform policy. Vo Van Thuong, Politburo member, Secretary of the CPV Central Committee, Head of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, led the Vietnamese delegation at the symposium and delivered a keynote speech. The National Defense Journal would like to present the following excerpt from his speech
Applying lessons from the August Revolution to today’s building of the great national unity
Saturday, August 11, 2018, 09:47 (GMT+7)
The August Revolution victory in 1948 taught the entire Party, people and military multiple valuable lessons as a lodestar for Vietnam’s renewal process and socialist Homeland defense. Chief among those lessons is building and upholding the strength of the great national unity, which still retains its significance and requires further research and creative real-world application under the Party’s leadership
The VPA is imbued with Uncle Ho’s thought on patriotic emulation via the accomplishment of military tasks in the new situation
Wednesday, June 06, 2018, 21:41 (GMT+7)
As our resistance war and national construction were riddled with ordeals 70 years ago, on the 11th of June, 1948, President Ho Chi Minh made an appeal for patriotic emulation in the spirit of “all-people resistance war, all-out resistance war….resistance war in tandem with national construction”
The relation between Homeland construction and protection in the new situation
Wednesday, May 23, 2018, 08:10 (GMT+7)
Homeland construction and protection, which have become a deep-rooted tradition throughout the country’s millennia-old history, always serves as our revolution’s strategic tasks. Therefore, a full awareness of this relation is a matter of importance and urgency amidst today’s international integration
Combining socio-economic development with defence and security enhancement in the Northwest
Friday, February 23, 2018, 08:02 (GMT+7)
To meet the requirements of national construction and defence as well as the specific characteristics of the Northwest, the combination between socio-economic development and defence and security enhancement in the region needs to be emphasized and effectively conducted through flexible, comprehensive and suitable measures.