The Ministry of Public Security said it would propose amendments to the Article 7 of the Press Law, in which the press is required to more widely supply information about the sources to improve the efficiency of the fight against corruption crime.

Under the draft VAT law, more products would be subject to the 5 percent tax instead of the current rate of 10 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – The army is always associated with the regime, the regime is under the Communist Party’s leadership. If the army is not politicized, it will become the robot army.

Discussion on the draft amendments to Constitution 1992, full-time National Assembly deputies disagreed with the way that some agencies responded to the proposal of removing Article 4 on the role of the Communist Party.

On the occasion of amending the Constitution, Vietnam should carry out some reforms, such as allowing the people to directly elect the President and combining the Party General Secretary and the President into one position.

Making comment on the draft amendments to the Constitution, social organizations proposed to establish the National Commission on Human Rights, as a constitutional institution next to the Constitutional Council and the State Audit Agency.

Many experts have suggested narrowing the powers of the National Assembly Standing Committee in order to avoid the situation in which the National Assembly is “neutralized.”

Amending the 1992 Constitution is an opportunity for the Communist Party of Vietnam’s innovation to ensure its leadership, said a senior scholar of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration.

"Vietnam’s sovereignty over the sea and the islands, especially the Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos must be powerfully shown in the Constitution," said Mr. Tran Ngoc Dinh, from the Hanoi Law University.

VietNamNet Bridge – A conference was held in HCM City recently to collect experts’ opinion on chapter 9 of the draft amendment to the Constitution 1992 on “local government.”

Just two days after the draft law on residency was submitted to the NA Standing Committee for discussion, the controversial regulation on deregistration of those who do not live in Vietnam from two years and prisoners have been removed,

VietNamNet Bridge - On January 30, the Government Committee for Religious Affairs organized a workshop to consult the priests and monks of some religious organizations for the draft amendments to the 1992 Constitution in Ho Chi Minh City.

VietNamNet Bridge - Former Chair of the HCM City People's Council Pham Phuong Thao proposed to consider setting up an independent Constitutional Council to handle unconstitutional issues.

According to Mr. Nguyen Van Phuc, Vice Chair of the National Assembly’s Economic Committee, the amended Constitution will further promote the ownership of the people on the principles of all state power belongs to the people.

Overseas Vietnamese entrepreneurs and intellectuals who returned home to attend the conference of the Vietnam Fatherland Front last week expected that the Constitution more strongly protect their freedom of business and research in Vietnam.

National Assembly deputy Nguyen Thi Kim Thuy of Da Nang city proposed the draft amendments to the Constitution, which after being passed by the National Assembly must go through a referendum before it takes effect.