VOV.VN - Contestant Huynh Thi Thanh Thuy surpassed 70 opponents to secure the Miss International 2024 crown in Japan on November 12, becoming the first Vietnamese beauty to win this pageant.

VOV.VN - Vo Van Hoan, vice chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee, received a delegation of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and the World Bank (WB) on November 11, seeking ways to promote Ho Chi Minh City's sustainable development based on green growth.

The LEGO Group began testing systems and infrastructure at its new factory on November 6 in the southern province of Binh Duong, the company’s most environmentally sustainable factory to date.

VOV.VN - The Swiss government and the World Bank (WB) have signed an agreement to provide Vietnam with US$5 million to promote green and resilient growth in the major Vietnamese cities.

The ancient town of Hoi An, in the central province of Quang Nam, has launched a pilot plan on building the first zero plastic and pedestrian streets, as part of the project to create an eco-city, based on cultural and sustainable tourism, with a vision to become a ‘green’ and ‘smart’ city by 2050.

The eighth edition of ASEAN Ceramics 2024 will take place from December 11 to 13 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City.

Nearly 200 experts and scientists from universities and research institutes across Vietnam, Japan, and other regional countries gather at an international scientific workshop that opened in the central city of Da Nang on October 24 to strategise Vietnam's ascension to a high-income status by 2045.

VOV.VN - The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Vietnam will assist the central province of Thua Thien-Hue with biodiversity conservation and sustainable development under a cooperation document signed on October 18.

Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA), and Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, met with Resident Representative of the UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Vietnam Ramla Khalidi on October 17, suggesting the organisation share knowledge about sustainable development.

VOV.VN - A Vietnamese diplomat on October 17 called for additional budget to be allocated for development issues, at a meeting of the Fifth Committee of the UN General Assembly that deals with the UN administrative and budgetary matters.