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Media practitioners are the front liners the public relies on for facts, vetted information and perspectives from the ground. Various articles have been published on the rights of the public to information, to the truth. This activity draws attention to the rights and the protection of media practitioners themselves, who, in the course of their work, risk their lives to report the news.

The National Assembly is the highest constitutional body of Vietnam and is in charge of many important tasks, for example the adoption of the five-year socio-economic plan or the annual state budget. On 23rd May 2021, the deputies of the 15th National Assembly will be elected - the procedure of these elections however follows strict rules and requirements.

The Hanns Seidel Foundation supported the conduct of and on-line conference for police training officers in the region with the objective of sharing information how the participating police organizations are coping with the challenge to conduct training during the Covid-19 Pandemic given the limitations on physical and face-to-face teaching, possibly with the use of digital teaching methods. Discussions during the conference included experiences and teaching methods that can be shared with or adapted by the other participants, and recommendations for specific subjects to be discussed in similar activities in the future.