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The HCM City People Court on Thursday (December 29) sentenced Nguyễn Thái Luyện, 36, chairman of the Board of Directors of Alibaba Company, to life imprisonment for property fraud, causing more than 4,500 victims to lose over VNĐ2.4 trillion (US$101 million).

The Vietnam Maritime Research and Rescue Coordination Centre (Vietnam MRCC) said on December 29 that it had rescued a 33-year-old Chinese sailor of a foreign cargo ship, who fell seriously ill while the ship was about 21 nautical miles

Four Vietnamese fighters claimed silver belts in the first international Muay Thai tournament known as “The Home Coming” which was managed by the Muay Thai Grand Prix (MTGP) and organised in Vietnam for the first time.

At least a Vietnamese citizen was confirmed to be among those killed in a fire breaking out at the 17-storey Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet, Cambodia, on December 29.

A ceremony was held in the northern Lao province of Oudomxay on December 29 to repatriate ten sets of remains of Vietnamese soldiers and experts who laid down their lives in the neighbouring country.

After 2022, the stock market will move toward sustainable development, Deputy Finance Minister Nguyễn Đức Chi said at a conference held by the State Securities Commission (SSC) to review the Vietnamese stock market in 2022 and deploy tasks for 2023.

Disbursement of foreign direct investment in Vietnam in 2022 is estimated at nearly 22.4 billion USD, up 13.5% year-on-year, making it the highest amount in the past five years, the General Statistics Office has announced.

Pele, the Brazilian football legend born Edson Arantes do Nascimento, died at the age of 82 on December 29, 2022. Pele is the only player to win the World Cup three times. Over his decades-long career, he helped make

The British Embassy to Vietnam and UNICEF have handed over £500,000 in health equipment to the Vietnamese Ministry of Health to assist recovery of the local health system.

Nearly 200 Vietnamese citizens arrived home from Japan on a free flight operated by the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on December 29 ahead of the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

Traffic police in the northern central province of Thanh Hoa have discovered seven pangolins on a coach.

A market for the Tet Lunar New Year is being held in the central city of Danang’s Hai Chau District.

Vietnam’s GDP growth is expected to reach 8.02 percent this year, the highest rate between the 2011-2022 period, according to a report from the General Statistics Office.

HCM City Transport Department has just announced the pilot operation of 14 bus routes connecting Tan Son Nhat Airport to local urban and tourist centres.

Vietnam recorded year-on-year growth of 3.15% in the 2022 consumer price index (CPI) while core inflation increased 2.59%, the General Statistics Office (GSO) said on December 29.

As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border of Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surround them.

Vietnam Airlines has announced plans to add more than 500 flights, equivalent to 90,000 seats, in order to meet increasing travel demand during the upcoming Lunar New Year, the country’s biggest festival of the year.

The agriculture sector in 2022 posted a new record in the agro-forestry-fishery export value, hitting more than US$53.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 9.3 per cent, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

A hot-air balloon festival, the first of its kind to be held in Da Lat City in the Central Highland province of Lam Dong, kicked off on December 28 as part of the Da Lat flower festival 2022.