Hanoi, June 24 -- The National Assembly (NA) on June 24 passed the Law on Cadres and Civil Servants (amended) with 418 out of 423 deputies voting in favour, accounting for 87.45% of the total number of legislators. Under the law, cadres are Vietnamese citizens who are elected, approved, appointed, or assigned to hold a position or title for a specific term in an agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), the State, the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF), or socio-political organisations at the central, provincial, or commune level. Cadres are part of the official payroll and receive salaries from the state budget.

Meanwhile, civil servants are Vietnamese citizens recruited into a job position within an agency of the CPV, the State, the ...