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Australia and Vietnam will accelerate trade and investment levels from 2021-2025, through a new economic strategy bringing the two countries' burgeoning commercial ties into sharp focus.

Many parents in Hanoi have expressed hopes that local schools would soon reopen although local schoolchildren have yet to receive vaccines against Covid-19.

Orsted Group of Denmark has made a proposal to invest between US$11.9 - 13.6 billion in an offshore wind power project with a total capacity of 3,900 MW in Hai Phong city.

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a well-known UK-based education organisation, has announced that 12 Vietnamese schools have made it into the global rankings of the top 675 universities in the QS Asia University Rankings (AUR) 2022.

- A Vietnamese mandarin hat said to be from the Nguyen Dynasty has sold for 600,000 euros (about 15.6 billion VND) at an auction in Barcelona, Spain.

The Vietnam Vaccine Joint Stock Company (VNVC) on November 2 signed a contract to purchase an additional 25 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine with the pharmaceutical multinational company AstraZeneca.

Vietnam welcomes the Global Methane Pledge initiative, considering it a right choice and the fastest, most cost-effective and beneficial solution to the current climate emergency, says Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Four partners have collectively pledged USD665 million toward a platform managed by the Asian Development Bank that aims to mobilize an additional USD7 billion for low-carbon and climate-resilient infrastructure projects in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam’s national U23 football team have qualified for the finals of the AFC Asian Cup after beating Myanmar by a goal to nil.

The northern region of Vietnam has been forecasted to experience the strongest cold spell since the onset of this year’s winter.

Vietnam confirmed an additional 5,637 Covid-19 infections in 52 localities on Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.

Two Bamboo Airways planes collided at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi this morning, November 2.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh has asked the parties concerned to take every measure possible to complete the construction of Long Thanh Airport and put it into operation by 2025.

Do Thi Ha, the Vietnamese representative at Miss World 2021, is anticipated to be named the winner of the 70th global pageant this year, according to predictions made by beauty website Sash Factor of the Philippines.

Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh’s visit to France from November 3-5 at the invitation of his French counterpart Jean Castex is expected to open up new opportunities and lift bilateral ties to a new height.

More than 100 global leaders late on Monday pledged to halt and reverse deforestation and land degradation by the end of the decade, underpinned by US$19 billion in public and private funds to invest in protecting and restoring forests.

A farmer in HCM City has tried to continue his farming work despite the city’s rapid urbanisation around him.

Dantri Online Newspaper has just transferred VND160 million (USD6,956) which readers sent to support a poor family with two mentally-ill children in Dak Nong Province.

Sugar producers in Vietnam have failed to compete with imported products on the local market as traders are using various tricks to avoid taxes.