VOV.VN - The Miss Culture International Friendship 2025 beauty pageant running as part of the annual Xuân Quê Hương (Homeland Spring) programme for overseas Vietnamese has been launched.

Defence cooperation has become a key pillar of the Vietnam-UK strategic partnership, said Vietnamese Ambassador Do Minh Hung at a ceremony in London on December 4 to celebrate the 80th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) and the 35 years of the All-People Defence Festival.

VOV.VN - Vietnam is closely monitoring the current development in the Republic of Korea, and believes that the RoK will soon stabilize the situation and continue to develop robustly in the near future, said Pham Thu Hang, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The third Vietnam-India security dialogue at deputy ministerial level took place in Hanoi on December 5, co-chaired by Deputy Minister of Public Security Pham The Tung and Indian Deputy National Security Advisor Pavan Kapoor.

VOV.VN - The National Assembly of Vietnam and the House of Councillors of Japan have signed a document to enhance cooperation between the two countries’ parliaments.

VOV.VN - More than 800 businesses from 20 countries worldwide are showing products and technologies at the Vietnam International Trade Fair (Vietnam Expo 2024) which opened in Ho Chi Minh City on December 5.

VOV.VN - Retail petrol prices were revised down as of December 5 afternoon following the latest adjustment made by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

VOV.VN - UNESCO has recently recognized the Ba Chua Xu (Holy Mother of the Realm) Festival on Mount Sam in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, raising the total number of the country’s such UNESCO-recognised intangible elements to 16.

The state budget revenue topped VND1.8 quadrillion (US$71 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, equivalent to 106.3% of this year's target and up 16.1% from the same period from 2023, the Ministry of Finance reported on December 4.

The 2024 Teqball World Championship officially kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on December 4.