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Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired the plenary session of the fifth Vietnam Economic Forum in Hanoi on December 17.

President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Do Van Chien on December 16 visited Xuan Loc Diocese in Long Khanh city of southern Dong Nai province to offer Christmas greetings to Catholic bishops, priests and followers in the locality.

The Party and State always treasure and highly value the role and position of the youth, considering them a big social force, a mainstay and a future owner of the country, and one of the factors determining the success of the national industrialisation, modernisation, international integration, and socialism building.

Over the past 10 years, the Supportive Fund for Cancer Patients – Bright Future, has grown very quickly and operated effectively, supported by many agencies, organizations and benefactors. It has supported treatment and given gifts to nearly 33,000 poor cancer patients nationwide worth nearly VND54 billion.

The 31st Vietnam Student Olympiad in Informatics (OLP'22) and the 2022 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Asia in Ho Chi Minh City concluded on December 9.

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

A ceremony to celebrate the the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (December 3) was held in Hanoi on December 10 in response to the Asian and Pacific Decade of Persons with Disabilities (2023-2032).

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a meeting with the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Henri, at the Grand Ducal Palace on December 10 (local time) as part of his official visit to Luxembourg.

(CPV) - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Viet Nam Department of Climate Change (DCC) hosted a "Post-COP27 Dialogue for a Joint Roadmap to Mainstream Gender in Climate Policy Implementation" in Ha Noi on December 9th 2022.

(CPV) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Binh Duong Water Environment Joint Stock Company (BIWASE) signed a USD13 million loan on December 9th 2022 to finance the construction and operation of a composting plant and waste-to-energy (WTE) facility in Binh Duong province in Viet Nam.

Deputy Director of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Lam informed that the field of trade, service, and industrial processing has great demand for labor. In December alone, the recruitment demand in these fields is 23,000-25,000 workers.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee decided to appoint Mr. Le Duy Minh, Director of Ho Chi Minh City's Tax Department, as Director of HCMC Department of Finance for a five-year tenure.

(CPV) - Vietnamese students won a total of 19 medals, including three gold, at the recent 2022 International Mathematics and Science Olympiad (IMSO).

VND18 billion has been committed to sponsor heart surgeries for disadvantaged children during a recent gathering which marked the journey of 14 years of the humanitarian heart surgery program “Heart for children” benefiting poor children with congenital heart diseases.

A conference was recently held in the Czech Republic to honour President Ho Chi Minh’s sentiments towards overseas Vietnamese and intellectuals.

The Phuong Trang Company - Futa Bus Lines officially put free-of-charge transit bus for passengers from or to the new Mien Dong (Eastern) Coach Station into operation on December 1.

On December 4, the Ministry of Public Security held the inauguration ceremony of President Ho Chi Minh Statue in the campus of the Ministry of Public Security headquarters in Ho Chi Minh City.

In the peak month of "For the poor" and Hanoi's social security in 2022, the "For the poor" Fund has received registrations and donations of more than VND83 billion, the city Fatherland Front has reported.

With its potential, advantages and opportunities, the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu would promote green, rapid, sustainable socio-economic development, especially high-tech agriculture, renewable energy, trade, services and tourism, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a working session with local leaders on December 4.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has described UNESCO-honored Ho Xuan Huong as a talented female poet and a unique phenomenon of Vietnamese classical literature with her works expressing an in-depth humanistic thought.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh urged domestic innovative startups to work harder to become “unicorns” of the region and the world while addressing the key ceremony of the National Innovative Entrepreneurship Day 2022 (Techfest Vietnam 2022) in the southern province of Binh Duong on December 3.

The southern province of Binh Duong must achieve rapid, harmonious, inclusive and sustainable development, thus ensuring social security and leaving no one behind, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has said.

A decision has been issued by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee on the implementation plan to develop the southern metropolis’s seaport infrastructure system.

When businesses and people meet difficulties, state management agencies must have a higher sense of responsibility, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said while chairing the government’s regular meeting in Hanoi on December 1.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 30 co-chaired a national urban conference in Hanoi, which aims to disseminate and roll out the Government's Resolution 148/NQ-CP on implementing the Politburo's Resolution 06-NQ/TW on planning, construction, management and sustainable development of urban areas in Vietnam to 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Since its introduction into Vietnam, Buddhism has integrated into the Vietnamese social life and become an important element in the national culture, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said in a reception for a delegation of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) after the success of the 9th National Buddhist Congress on November 29.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a national hybrid conference on November 29 to disseminate and launch the implementation of the 13th-tenure Politburo’s resolution on orientations for socio-economic development and defence - security safeguarding in the Red River Delta.

In the first 11 months of this year, the number of Vietnamese laborers going to work abroad has reached more than 122,000 people, exceeding the year's plan.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on November 27 inspected a number of infrastructure projects in Ho Chi Minh City, including the expansion of Binh Hung waste treatment plant, the construction of Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway and the upgrading of National Highway 50.

Two heritage pieces of Vietnam were recognised as part of documentary heritage in Asia and the Pacific on November 26, at the 9th general meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP) in Andong city, the Republic of Korea.