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Prestigious international sports website Metro League recently announced its list of the Top 28 most successful local swimmers of all time, with the top position going to Nguyen Thi Anh Vien.

Doan Thu Thuy, the Vietnamese representative at Miss Global 2023, is set to attend the 10th edition of the global pageant which is due to take place in Vietnam and Cambodia in January, 2024.

Vietnam would import 71,835 tonnes of raw tobacco under tariff quota for 2024 set in a freshly issued circular by the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT).

Commercial banks have spent trillions of Vietnam dong to buy back bonds before maturity in the last months of this year.

Many people in Hanoi continue to swim in the Red River during the cold winter weather.

HCM City will ban vehicles from the city centre on December 31 to serve the firework displays for the New Year.

Average life expectancy in Vietnam has been on the rise with women having longer life expectancy than men, according to the local Ministry of Health.

Vietnam’s stock market is set to grow in a stable, safe, healthy, effective and sustainable fashion under a freshly-approved strategy.

Police in the northern province of Quang Ninh have just seized 28 wild animals which were being illegally transported to China.

Nearly 400 Vietnamese workers have been repatriated after escaping conflict zones in Myanmar.

HCM City authorities want to increase the number of firework display locations for the coming Tet Lunar New Year’s Eve to eight.

Reuters on December 28 published an article on Vietnam’s “Bamboo diplomacy”, highlighting the country's increasingly dynamic foreign policy approach and its most important diplomatic agreements over the last 12 months.

About 12.6 million international tourists have visited Vietnam this year, a 3.4-fold rise from 2022, surpassing the target of 8 million set earlier, the General Statistics Office (GSO) reported on December 29.

The headquarters of the HCM City People’s Committee will be opened to welcome visitors during the new year holiday.

Ho Thi Truc Mai was among three first-grade students of the first primary class which has just been opened on Con Co Island District in the central province of Quang Tri.

As many as 10 tonnes of dead animal parts confiscated from a smuggling case have been destroyed in the central province of Quang Nam.

Vietnam’s consumer price index in 2023 is estimated to rise 3.25% year-on-year, meeting the target set by the National Assembly (NA), the General Statistics Office reported on December 29.

The highest bonus for the coming Tet Lunar New Year in Hanoi will be around VND205 million (USD8,471), down from VND400 million last Tet.

The HCM City Department of Tourism and authorities in District 8 will pilot the purchase of all flowers and bonsai that traders are unable to sell during the coming Tet Lunar New Year.