(LLCT) - President Ho Chi Minh paid due attention to the issue of Party building on morality since early time, especially in his final work on the Party’s 39th founding anniversary (February 3, 1969): “Enhance revolutionary morality, wipe out individualism”. Thoroughly grasping his thought, the issue of preserving Party members' discipline must now be associated with the training of revolutionary morality and the fight against individualism; Party members take responsibility and actively act against corruption, waste, and bureaucracy.

(LLCT) - The article discusses the main aspects of cooperation in training and scientific research between Russia and Vietnam for almost a decade. Currently, Russia and Vietnam joint education is developing strongly mostly thanks to the support of the two countries’ leaders, as evidenced by a series of important international agreements in the fields of education, science and technology that have been signed and raised to the strategic partnership. Some areas of cooperation between Russia and Vietnam include the joint development of research programs and training programs for specialists, scientific and educational activities, mutual support in academic exchanges of teachers and students, international conferences and symposia, and many others that are not listed here.

(LLCT) - Investment in healthcare infrastructure to improve the quality of medical examination and treatment at communal health stations, regional polyclinics and district health centers always receives due attention from the Party and the State of Vietnam. Through analysis of the current situation of public investment in the development of healthcare infrastructure in the Northwest region, the article points out the difficulties and limitations, such as: investment capital mainly comes from the state budget; public-private partnership (PPP) has not yet played a clear role, the effects of socio-economic infrastructure investment in general and healthcare infrastructure in particular are insufficient. Therefrom, the article proposes solutions to synchronously develop socio-economic infrastructure, invest in healthcare infrastructure, increase the number of  stations, improve the quality of medical examination and treatment, and provide access to health services for people in the Northwest. 

(LLCT) - It has been 170 years since the Manifesto of the Communist Party was born. The value of its theoretical points has remained unchanged up to now. The country on the path to socialism can apply it creatively in accordance with its specific conditions. For Vietnam, the chosen transitional path to socialism is oriented and lightened by the Manifesto and Marxism - Leninism. The vitality of the Manifesto is the constant inspiration which requires us to supplement and develop the theory of socialism and the transitional path to socialism in Vietnam in the new context.

(LLCT) - In April 2018, the HCMA and WBVN signed an engagement note with the Overarching objective is to foster multifaceted and two-way knowledge sharing on key social, economic and political issues between the two institutions.

(LLCT) - Vietnam and China, the two friendly neighboring countries sharing in-line rivers and moutains, are also the two Communist Party-led socialist countries. Over the period of long revolutionary struggles, Chairman Mao Zedong, President Ho Chi Minh and the senior leaders of both Parties built up the traditional friendship as “both comrades and brothers”, opening a historical chapter of nearly 90 years of friendship and exchange between the two parties. In those 90 years, the two-party cooperation has always played an important leading role in the relationship between the two countries, especially in recent years, under the attention and direction of General Secretary Xi Jinping and General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, the exchange by the Party channel has reached new heights and spread new vitality.

(LLCT) - On the 12^th of April 2016, the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam (UNDP), the Centre for Official Fostering and Scientific Research (under the Fatherland Front of Vietnam), and the Centre for Community Support and Development Studies, launched Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2015 in Hanoi. In attendance of the ceremony were Prof. Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, H.E. Ms. Beatrice Maser Mallor, Ambassador of Switzerland to Vietnam, and Ms. Pratibha Mehta, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Vietnam.

A nation's power includes not only its hard power (geographical - population, economic, military factors) but also its soft power (political institution, ideology and national strategies (state leaders), and the will of the people in implementing strategies, social values, international relations). Therefore, the study of a country’s soft power should be taken under overall consideration of its comprehensive power.