VIETNAM TODAY

Where in the world can you shave a year or two off your age? South Korea -- which has just passed a set of bills to abandon its traditional system of calculating ages.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a business forum as part of his visit to Luxembourg on December 9 (local time).

Hanoi has planned to invest VND 3.4 trillion (USD 144.66 million) into building a bridge across the Red River.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with President of the Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg Fernand Etgen on December 9, as part of his official visit to the European nation.

An additional 496 new Covid-19 infections were confirmed on Friday, raising the national tally to over 11.52 million, according to the Ministry of Health.

The Vietnam-Cuba Friendship Association working in collaboration with the Cuban Embassy in Vietnam and the Vietnam National University, Hanoi organised an event on December 9 to introduce the first-ever Vietnamese-Spanish dictionary.

The central city of Da Nang ranked third in the country in gross regional domestic product growth in 2022 with 14.05%, heard a conference held by the municipal Party Committee on December 9.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Binh Duong Water Environment Joint Stock Company (BIWASE) signed a $13 million loan to finance the construction and operation of a composting plant and waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in Binh Duong province in Vietnam.

The electric two-wheeler sharing system in Hanoi which has been recently piloted has served a modest number of passengers.

A flight from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam to China's Guangzhou took off on Friday morning, marking the first commercial flight between the two countries after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation touched down at Findel International Airport on the morning of December 9, starting an official visit to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Viettel High Technology Industries Corporation (VHT) and United Telecoms Limited Group (UTL Group) on December 8 signed a strategic agreement on comprehensive R&D and deployment of 5G network infrastructure in India and an export contract to the Indian market.

A forum was held in the central province of Quang Nam to support small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) of the Republic of Korea (RoK) to expand investment and business opportunities in Vietnam.

A boy in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai is calling for community support as his parents died and he is living with his paternal grandmother who is also ailing.

Three people have died and one other seriously injured in a house fire in the northern city of Hai Phong.

The northern province of Nam Dinh has announced the resumption of the Seal Opening Ceremony at Tran Temple on the coming Lunar New Year, or Tet, following a three-year suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The northern province of Bac Ninh has proposed turning the Lim-Pha Lai railway sub-project into an elevated section.

The HCM City People’s Committee has proposed halting 17 projects in order to prioritise more urgent ones.

PM Pham Minh Chinh left Hanoi early December 9 on a trip to attend a summit commemorating the 45th anniversary of the ASEAN-EU relations and pay official visits to Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and Belgium.