(LLCT) - After 20 years of normalized relations, Vietnam and the U.S. have become “friends” and, since 2013, comprehensive partners. Despite the deliberate rate of development, this bilateral cooperation has made firm steps and has been expanded and prospered in many aspects, including cooperation in national defense resources and remediation of the effects of the Vietnam War.

(LLCT) - In celebration of the 105^th anniversary of the day Ho Chi Minh left Vietnam to seek ways for national salvation (5 June 1911 - 5 June 2016), Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics in coordination with the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee organized the symposium “Ho Chi Minh - A statesman of great vision” in Ho Chi Minh City. The Journal would like to publish extracts of the keynote speech by Professor and Doctor Nguyen Xuan Thang, Member of the Party Central Committee, and Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

(LLCT) - Do religions have a place in the law-ruled state? In Vietnam, for religions and the socialist law-ruled State get on with each other and conform to the United Nations’ declarations on human and civil rights, how should the State implement its religious policies? The following article answers these questions.

(LLCT) - Numerous articles have been published that discuss the legality of the contents in PM Pham Van Dong’s 1958 Diplomatic Note and the evidence provided by China. This article, referring to a number of works conducted by domestic and foreign researchers, attempts to analyze the legality of PM Pham Van Dong’s Diplomatic Note in the hope of asserting that the document has a common diplomatic nature, showing the socialist system’s solidarity against US invasions during the early stages of the Cold War. Thus, it does not exert any impact on Vietnam’s legitimate sovereignty over the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa Archipelagos.

(LLCT) - The Communist Party of Vietnam always attaches great importance to the advancement of intellectuals, including female ones. In this article, female intellectuals include those who graduated from colleges and universities, now working in the fields of social sciences and humanities, science and technology, health care, education and training, literature, arts, or holding leadership and management positions. 

(LLCT) - The historical activity of human society conforms to the nature of culture, lending it the qualities and functions of productive forces. Therefore, culture has a direct influence on nature and socio-economic building and development.

(LLCT) - Different countries have differing methods and steps of development, but in general, national governments must deal with economic regime as the most essential factor of their regimes’ stability and their countries’ respective wealth and power.

(LLCT) - A troika is the image that can well describe the relationship between the three biggest powers: the United States, China and Russia in the contemporary world, with each being a leg, depending on as well as competing against each other. This troika relationship exerts certain impacts and influences on the life of many regions and the whole world, mostly developing countries, and especially Vietnam. As such, it is imperative for developing countries, including Vietnam to study this “troika” carefully as well as identify its impacts so as to work out appropriate policies.

(LLCT) - With 85 years of age, and 70 continuous years in power, the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) has made great contributions to the country and nation. Under its leadership, the people won national independence, built up the first state of workers and peasants in Southeast Asia, and the first democratic republic regime in Vietnam.

(LLCT) - Since the late 20th century, globalization has gradually been an inevitable trend in the world. The modern productive force created by the scientific and technological revolution, including the means of communication and transportation as well as the prevailing market economy, has made globalization an irreversible process.