Events

Improving performance of the elected bodies and deputies in handling people's petitions

In Vietnam, meetings with voters are regularly carried out by National Assembly deputies before and after NA sessions while the NA Standing Committee’s Commission of People’s Petition (CPP) is the first and focal point in handling people’s petitions beside NA deputies delegations, People’s Councils and Fatherland Fronts.

Workshop Legal development on juvenile justice in Vietnam

The past few years, Vietnam has made great progress in improving the legal system for juveniles, whether juvenile offenders or minor victims and witnesses in criminal cases. Some important laws such as the Criminal Code, the Criminal Procedure Law, Law on Criminal Judgment Execution, Law on Children, Law on Organization of People's Courts… have been amended with regard to making the procedure friendlier and safeguarding the interests of juveniles.

Assessment of Top 500 Vietnamese largest private enterprises

KAS Vietnam and the National Centre for Socio-Economic Information and Forecast (NCIF) released a research assessing the performance of the top 500 Vietnamese private enterprises (VPE500). The study identifies the 500 largest Vietnamese private enterprises based on three criteria: labor size, total assets, and revenue. The researchers analyze the performance of the VPE500 to provide a snapshot of the of their current situation as well as their relationship with the rest of the private sector.

Innovation for Networked Security Policy Livelihood Security during and after the Covid-19

A Competition for Undergraduate Students

Since 2020, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Vietnam has been cooperating with the University of Social Sciences and Humanities to implement a long-term youth-oriented-project in the form of a competition with the theme “Innovation for Networked Security Policy” with the desire to make ‘networked security policy’ better known to general public. Following the success of the first competition focusing on “Coping with Food Insecurity and Climate Change”, this year 2022 second one concentrated is about “Livelihood Security During and After COVID-19”.

The 8th Ocean Dialogue

40th Anniversary of UNCLOS: Promoting Maritime Cooperation in Southeast Asia

Ocean Dialogue is one of the flagship cooperation programs between Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) Vietnam and Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Each Ocean Dialogue goes into a carefully set out topic. The series of Ocean Dialogue intends to raise the importance of the maritime/sea/ocean by building up the knowledge and looking at it from different angles. Maritime issues are of great importance to the countries around the South China Sea, which affect their economic, political, environmental and security context. Not only regionally is this topic of relevance, it is of equal importance to the global community.

KAS-MoJ Training workshop - Law on Handling Administrative Violations

New points of the law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the law on handling administrative violations

With the aims of introducing the provisions of the Law amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Law on Handling of Administrative Violations, on 2/6/2022, KAS Vietnam co-operated with Ministry of Justice – Department of Management of Handling Administrative Violations and Monitoring Law Enforcement organize an extensive training workshop to disseminate the contents

„Vietnam als Partner Deutschlands für eine regelbasierte internationale Ordnung?"

Im Rahmen einer der ersten Delegationsreisen aus Asien seit Beginn der Corona-Pandemie, veranstaltete die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) am 16. Mai 2022 eine Paneldiskussion zum Thema: „Vietnam als Partner Deutschlands für eine regelbasierte internationale Ordnung?“. Offizielle Vertreter und Experten aus Vietnam und Deutschland tauschten sich zur „strategischen Partnerschaft“ zwischen den beiden Ländern und spezifischen außen- und sicherheitspolitischen Chancen und Herausforderungen aus.

China Talk 19

US - China Competition in the Southeast Asia

On May 11th 2022, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Vietnam and Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam jointly held the 19th edition of the China talk series. Until now, 18 China Talks have been carried out with different topics ranging from China’s foreign and security affairs to domestic politics such as analyzing the Communist Party Congresses or assessing Chinese Soft Power. And the 19th edition focused on US - China Competition in the Southeast Asia.

Developing non-conviction-based confiscation mechanism in Vietnam

On May 12th 2022, Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung Vietnam and Criminal and Administrative Legislation Department, Ministry of Justice jointly held the seminar on “Developing non-conviction-based confiscation mechanism in Vietnam”. Non-conviction recovery mechanisms can be considered as a breakthrough solution to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of money and asset recovery. Nevertheless, property confiscation without criminal proceedings is a complex measure that affects property rights and requires synchronization with other mechanisms and institutions such as asset control, income control, transaction control, non-cash payment system and anti-money laundering.

Enhancing the effective implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is one of the most important international treaties on human rights to which Vietnam has been a member state since 1982. Upon the recommendations of the UN Human Rights Committee on the 3rd National Report on the Implementation of ICCPR, Prime Minister issued Decision No. 1252/QD-TTg on 26/9/2019 approving a national Action Plan “Enhancing the effective implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the recommendations of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights” (hereinafter referred to as the Action Plan).