Hanoi, Feb. 24 -- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh paid a Lunar New Year (Tet) visit and held a working session with the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS) and leading scientists and experts in the fields of social sciences and humanities in Hanoi on February 24. PM Chinh extended New Year greetings and appreciated the contributions by generations of VASS scientists, affirming that their proposals will be carefully considered. He stressed that social sciences are not merely academic disciplines but a foundational intellectual framework guiding national development policies. Drawing on Vietnam's millennia-long history of nation-building and defence, he underscored that the country's rich cultural, ideological and spiritual values form...