Ho Chi Minh City will try its best to forge ties with Russian localities, thus deepening the strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia.

Cabinet members discussed five draft revised laws during their December 25 law building session, including those on vocational training, real estate business, social insurance, civil aviation, and housing.

HCM City's Population and Family Planning Division will focus on programmes for elderly people's welfare in the year to come.

The office of the national steering board on the consequences of toxic chemicals during the war in Vietnam (Office 33) should expand collaboration with such traditional partners as Japan and the Republic of Korea to boost international cooperation. 

The cooperative alliance of provinces and cities in the Central and Central Highlands regions has targeted to improve its cooperatives’ operation capacity while strengthening management and developing production and business plans.

Social facilities worth more than US$200,000 financed by nine enterprises from the Republic of Korea were handed over to authorities of the northern province of Hai Duong on December 24.

Vietnam has secured third place among the world’s shrimp exporters this year with a total value of US$2.5 billion, representing a yearly rise of nearly 33% and accounting for 44% of the total aquatic export turnover.

A happy atmosphere reached various corners of the country in the Christmas night.

The Ministry of Information and Communications on December 24 launched a logo design contest for digital television in Vietnam.

The Mekong delta province of Tra Vinh launched a “don ca tai tu” (amateur singing) festival for local people on December 23-24 to honour the art, which was recognised as a piece of the world’s intangible cultural heritage.