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A factory producing Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 will be built in Vietnam within one year and is expected to produce 30-40 million doses annually, Chairman of Russian pharmaceutical company Binnopharm Dmitry Zubov told Vietnam News Agency correspondents in Russia.

Digital transformation must serve all aspects of life, for the sake of Vietnamese people’s happiness and national prosperity, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed.

In 2021, Vietnam recorded 5,600 newly-established digital technology businesses, stemming from the need to work, sell and communicate online in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Vietnam Stock Exchange (VNX) made debut on December 11, on the basis of merging the Hanoi Stock Exchange (HNX) and the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE).

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Central Committee Do Van Chien on December 11 extended best wishes to priests, dignitaries and the Catholic community in Nghe An province’s Vinh diocese ahead of the Christmas Festive Season.

The Hanoi People’s Council has passed a target programme on mitigating traffic congestion and ensuring traffic safety in the city for the 2021-2025 period with total funding of 1.8 trillion VND (nearly 80 million USD).

Chairman of the National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue’s upcoming official visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) plays an important role in elevating the Vietnam-RoK relations, and coveys a message on determination of the countries’ senior leaders in resuming visits by high-ranking officials and people-to-people exchange.

Ambassador Pham Hai Anh, Chargé d’Affaires a.i. of Vietnam to the United Nations, chaired a periodical meeting of the UN Security Council’s Informal Working Group on International Tribunals in New York on December 10.

Representatives of the Border Guard Command under the Ministry of Defence of Vietnam and the Border Guard Department of the General Staff of the Lao People's Army held a conference to review three years of implementing their cooperation agreement on December 11 in Huong Hoa district, the central province of Quang Tri.

Head of the Party Central Committee’s Commission for External Relations Le Hoai Trung has highlighted the need to ensure the Party’s leadership in diplomatic work and the importance of combination of Party, State and people-to-people diplomacy.

Vietnam and Australia have been officially nominated as co-chairs of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)-run Southeast Asia Regional Programme (SEARP) for 2022-2025, replacing Thailand and the Republic of Korea (RoK).

Vietnam’s shrimp export earnings will hit around 3.9 billion USD this year, up 4 percent from 2020, according to Le Hang, Deputy Director of the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP)’s Training and Trade Promotion Centre (VASEP.PRO).

Ho Chi Minh City on December 10 started administering additional and booster shots of COVID-19 vaccines to high-risk groups and frontline forces, including medical workers, police and army officers and those who are immunocompromised.

The Hanoi People's Committee has issued a plan on promoting information and communication activities on ASEAN in the 2021-2025 period, with a vision to 2030, aiming to effectively implement the Government's action plan in this work.

The relationship between Vietnam and Kazakhstan has developed in the spirit of friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation, heard a roundtable on December 10.

A scientific workshop themed “Russia in the eyes of Vietnamese researchers of Russian studies: humanistic aspects” was organised in Hanoi on December 10, highlighting the fruitful development of Russia - Vietnam relations.

Da Nang city, a travel hub in central Vietnam, welcomed the first 500 MICE tourists on December 10 after a long social distancing period triggered by the COVID-19 resurgence.

Another Vietnam-Cambodia Friendship Monument in Svay Rieng province of Cambodia was inaugurated to build on December 9.

Chairman of the Vietnamese National Assembly Vuong Dinh Hue will pay an official visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) from December 12 at the invitation of Speaker of the Korean NA Park Byeong-seug.

From early 2022, foreigners looking for jobs in the Republic of Korea (RoK) under the Employment Permit System (EPS) program will be able to join in a free online Korean course.

(CPV) - There is a growing body of evidence here in Viet Nam and globally on the importance of good parenting practices for children’s physical, cognitive, emotional, and psycho-social development.

Despite being heavily affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the third quarter, Vietnam’s textile and garment exports have overcome difficulties and maintained strong momentum in 2021, said Vice President and General Secretary of the Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS) Truong Van Cam.

Since the beginning of the year, tourism management departments across the country have received more than 15,000 dossiers from tourism guides requesting support and have handled nearly 14,000 eligible applications with a total support of nearly VND 51.3 billion, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.

Singapore is seeking more partner countries to cooperate in producing agricultural products and processed food while Vietnam has huge advantages in the field, said the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

(CPV) - The contest was launched with the desire to gather articles, videos and photographic reportages from a large number of journalists and amateur writers, contributing to the protection of female workers' lives.

Indonesia’s creative economy could contribute up to 20 percent to the global economy, according to Minister of Tourism and Creative Economy, Sandiaga Uno.

Vietnam welcomed over 15,000 foreign tourists in November, up 42.4 percent from the figure in October, the General Statistics Office.

The 14th Vietnam Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology (VINANST-14) opened on December 9 via videoconference, drawing a large number Vietnamese and foreign experts, scientists, researchers and management officials working in different fields of nuclear science and technology.

Vietnam protests cyber attacks in any form and stays ready to cooperate with the international community in the issue, said the Foreign Ministry’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang.

New Zealand wishes to further strengthen cooperation with Vietnam in trade-investment, education, digital economy and climate change, including joint efforts to lift two-way trade turnover to USD2 billion by 2024.