Hanoi, Sept. 9 -- National Assembly (NA) Chairman Tran Thanh Man, who is also Secretary of the NA Party Committee, on September 9 chaired a national scientific conference looking into 80 years of the NA's formation and development. The event, held by the NA Party Committee, the Party Central Committee's Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation, and the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, took place on the threshold of the 80th anniversary of the first general election (January 6, 1946-2026). In his opening remarks, Chairman Man emphasised that over the past 80 years, from the Tan Trao Congress of People's Representatives - the precursor of the NA of Vietnam - on August 16, 1945, to the establishment of the first-t...