Vietnamese National Assembly delegation visits IranA delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly led by its Vice Chairman Senior Lieutenant General Tran Quang Phuong is paying a working visit to Iran from December 2-6. Previously the ACAFP, the PVF Football Academy, and Vietnam Cable Television (VTVcab) signed a cooperation deal on September 22 in Hanoi. Ho Chi Minh City has topped the list of destinations with the highest number of tourists in the year to date. In the coming years, Vietnam will continue to fully implement the provisions of the Constitution and the laws concerning people with disabilities, as well as international commitments that Vietnam has signed. Vietnam Railways warns that passengers should not buy any tickets that are resold uncontrollably on the Internet via informal platforms.

Stories about the daily life of farmers in rural villages, fairy tales, or legends in a scene of typical countryside of Vietnam. (Photo: VNA)Paris (VNA) – A special water puppetry and traditional music performance with the theme “Village stories" took place from December 1-4 in Paris to promote Vietnam’s traditional culture and raise funds for disadvantaged children in the country's remote mountainous areas. The performance "The dance of dragon, unicorn, tortoise and phoenix. Trieu Vinh Van, Chairman of the ALEDI Association, said the event aims not only to popularise the Vietnamese culture but also to contribute to enhancing cultural exchanges between the two peoples. After covering the expense of the performance, all the money raised will be contributed to ALEDI fund to help disadvantaged children in remote mountainous areas of Vietnam./.

Several injured as stage collapses at Vietnam water music festivalAt least six people were injured after a stage of a music festival collapsed in Binh Duong province, southern Vietnam, on December 3 evening. Fonterra has been operating in Vietnam since 1980, specialising in supplying and distributing dairy and food products for restaurant and hotel chains. He informed Cronin that Vietnam is continuing to improve the legal system, creating best conditions possible for investors and ensuring fair competition. Bich Hanh crowned Mrs World Vietnam 2022Nguyen Thi Bich Hanh of Phan Rang city in the south-central coast province of Ninh Thuan won the Mrs World Vietnam 2022 title on November 30 at C30 Hoa Binh Stage in Ho Chi Minh City. Vũ viewed the workshop as a demonstration of regional commitment to international cooperation to cope with the challenges.

Ninh Binh is a “cradle” of Xam singing, attached to late artisan Ha Thi Cau, the last Xam singer of the twentieth century. To promote the artform in a sustainable manner, Ninh Binh has been carrying out the “Restoring, preserving and developing Xam singing in the 2019 - 2022 period” project. Ninh Binh has held many classes in Xam singing in recent times, and taken the traditional art to schools. It also organises Xam singing contests throughout the year, to promote its popularity. Activities in teaching and performing for tourists allows Xam singing to be effectively preserved and promoted in Ninh Binh, contributing to Vietnam’s proposal that UNESCO recognise it as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity in need of urgent protection./.

The 15th Vietnamese NA continued to establish the Vietnam - New Zealand Friendship Parliamentarians’ Group and maintained information exchange with the New Zealand Embassy in Vietnam. Apart from agricultural cooperation, Hall said Australian enterprises are interested in various fields in Vietnam such as health care, maternal and baby care, and preschool education in Vietnam. CEO of Intrinsic Innovations Vietnam Tuan Le said an advantage of Vietnam in approaching the Canadian market is a community of more than 260,000 Vietnamese expatriates there. About 17,000 students have graduated from RMIT University Vietnam and in the last five years nearly 3,000 Vietnamese students have graduated from the education establishment in Melbourne. The RMIT University Council has approved to significantly increase its existing investment in RMIT University Vietnam in 2023, he said, adding that this is the largest investment of RMIT in an overseas institution with the aim of developing RMIT Vietnam into a major international education hub in the region.

Experts said prices of Vietnamese rice will continue to stay high as economic and political uncertainties will push up food demand. If the export volume is maintained at over 400,000 tonnes each month in the remaining two months, the whole year’s export volume of the agricultural product will reach from 6.8-7 million tonnes. Export businesses were urged to pay due attention to China, a big and promising market of Vietnamese farm produce. Recently, China has made changes in import requirements, from plant quarantine to packaging, tracking of origin and growing area codes. So far, a total of 22 Vietnamese firms have been licensed to ship rice to China, and Vietnam has proposed China expand the list./.

Enterprises in the textile, garment and footwear industries are facing difficulties on a variety of fronts, including a reduction in export orders. (Photo: VNA)Key export industries are forecast to witness a large decrease in orders, especially textile s, footwear, furniture, iron and steel and cement. (Photo: VNA)VNA– Enterprises in the textile, garment and footwear industries are facing difficulties on a variety of fronts, including a reduction in export orders, and the plight is likely to continue until the first half of next year.Pham Van Viet, Chairman of Viet Thang Jean Co., Ltd., reported that orders at his firm have decreased since June. Because customers cancel orders in light of high inventory, Viet Thang always has to closely follow market information.To maintain operations and ensure employees' income, the company is looking for orders in new markets. Key export industries are forecast to witness a large decrease in orders, especially textiles, footwear, furniture, iron and steel and cement.

A village-based midwife helps a mother take care of her baby in Tu Mo Rong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum. (Photo: VNA)- Vietnam is in need of village-based midwives as the country has more than 7,000 remote and disadvantaged villages where women do not regularly get antenatal care at medical facilities.Many also still give birth at home. Dinh Anh Tuan from the Maternal and Child Health Department under the Ministry of Health said that it is necessary to train more village-based midwives because the country now has only 3,000.The need for village-based midwives is very high, he said.Therefore, the ministry plans to train more village-based midwives and continue strengthening the quality of staff in the future, he said.It will also update the knowledge and skills as well as provide necessary tools for helping women when they are giving birth, following Decision No. They will be on duty in the evening, he said.“It means that they will work as medical staff,” he said.The training process is strict and scientific, so the quality of village-based midwives has improved, he said.All of them meet the requirements, he said. "The midwives play an extremely important role, especially in remote and disadvantaged areas," he said.They are the bridge of the health sector, bringing safe maternal and childcare services to ethnic-minority women, he said.The midwives also bring mothers to medical facilities, helping them to receive antenatal care and delivery at medical facilities, he said.The village-based midwives contribute to ensuring the goal of safe motherhood of ethnic-minority women, he said.

NA Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai (L) and President of the People's National Assembly of Algeria Ibrahim Boughali. (Photo: VNA)Algiers (VNA) – A National Assembly (NA) delegation led by Vice Chairman Nguyen Duc Hai is paying a working visit to Algeria from November 29 to December 4. On December 1, the delegation was received by President of the People's National Assembly (lower house) of Algeria Ibrahim Boughali who affirmed that the visit is an important milestone in relations between the two nations. Hai said that Vietnam in general and its National Assembly in particular always attach great importance to promoting relations with traditional friends in Africa, in which Algeria is one of its leading partners. He took this occasion to convey NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue’s invitations to President of the Council of the Nation (upper house) Salah Goudjil and President of the People's National Assembly (lower house) Ibrahim Boughali to pay official visits to Vietnam.

Over 763,000 Koreans visited Vietnam in the past 11 months, showing a 27-fold rise on year, making the RoK the biggest source of international arrivals to Vietnam. For her part, Romanian Ambassador to Vietnam Cristina Romila said Vietnam and Romania have had many dynamic political exchanges, marked by frequent high-level contacts. Vu viewed the workshop as a demonstration of regional commitment to international cooperation to cope with the challenges. The Ambassador emphasized that the upgrading of the Vietnam - Brunei relationship to a comprehensive partnership during the Sultan's visit to Vietnam in March 2019 is the clearest example of strengthening relations between the two countries. The event is organised by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Vietnam (TECO) and the Vietnam National Institute of Culture and Arts Studies (VICAS).

In their letters sent to top Chinese leaders and the family of the deceased, they affirmed that, Jiang was an eminent leader of the Chinese Party and State, who was dedicated to the cause of revolution and construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics. He also made important contributions to the normalization and development of Vietnam-China ties. The Party, State and people of Vietnam always appreciate and remember the great contributions of Jiang to the ties between the two Parties and countries, they wrote. They also sent wreaths to the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam in commemoration of his death. On the same day, a delegation of the Vietnamese Party, State, Government, National Assembly, Vietnam Fatherland Front led by President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, together with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong, among others, paid tribute to the late leader and wrote in a condolence book at the Chinese Embassy in Vietnam./.

Illustrative image (Photo: VNA)– The national COVID-19 caseload rose to 11,517,124 with 635 new cases recorded on December 2, according to the Ministry of Health With 145 patients given the all clear during the day, the number of recoveries rose to 10,608,722.Meanwhile, there are 80 patients needing breathing support.No death from COVID-19 was recorded in the past 24 hours. The total fatalities stood at 43,176.With 87,588 doses administered on December 1, the total number of doses of COVID-19 vaccines injected rose to 264,635,919./.

Lieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of the Office and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security (Photo: VNA)– The police has received 1.7 trillion VND (69.35 million USD) handed back by those involved in the COVID-19 test kit scandal at Viet A Technologies JSC , Lieutenant General To An Xo, Chief of the Office and Spokesperson of the Ministry of Public Security, said at the Government’s regular press conference on December 1.Xo underlined that this is a complicated case causing discontent among the public, and many officials and Party members, including many senior officials have been punished.The investigation agency under the Ministry of Public Security decided to prosecute and apply preventive measures against 29 people, while blocking many transaction accounts, bank deposit books and distraining many assets, he said.Punishments for those in the case have been applied in three levels depending on their roles and performances, ensuring the strictness of the legal regulations and the humanity and leniency of the regime at the same time, the official stated.He underlined that the ministry advises violators to honestly confess their wrongdoings to authorised agency or return the corrupt money to receive leniency when investigation into the case is expanded./.

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc (R) greets representatives from organisations of Republic of Korea citizens on December 1. (Photo: VNA)– President Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with representatives from organisations of Republic of Korea citizens living and working in Vietnam on December 1, ahead of his State-level visit to the RoK at the invitation of his counterpart Yoon Suk-yeol At the meeting, RoK Ambassador to Vietnam Oh Young-ju said the RoK attaches special importance to the friendly and cooperative relationship with Vietnam, and has high expectations of President Phuc’s visit that it would open up new opportunities for bilateral cooperation in various fields, especially a cooperation framework for a mineral supply chain.Participants shared the view that the Vietnam-RoK strategic cooperative partnership is developing strongly, and people-to-people exchanges are also flourishing, with the Vietnam-RoK Friendship Association and RoK-Vietnam Friendship Association playing a prominent role.The representatives from the organisations of RoK citizens in Vietnam expressed their hope that President Phuc and relevant agencies always support the RoK community in Vietnam and further facilitate investment and business activities of RoK enterprises in the country.The President appreciated the role of organisations of RoK citizens in Vietnam in supporting RoK nationals in the country and deepening the friendship and mutual understanding between the two peoples.He affirmed that the Vietnamese State always takes care of and protects the legitimate rights and interests of the RoK community, as well as creates the best possible conditions for the community.The State leader said the great achievements of the Vietnam-RoK bilateral cooperation after 30 years establishing diplomatic relations prove that the two countries have become very important partners of each other.However, they still have great potential for expanding cooperation, Phuc said, noting his wish to further promote the bilateral partnership. He asked RoK citizens and enterprises to continue fostering the friendship and cooperation between the RoK and Vietnam./.

At the event (Photo: VNA)Illustrative photo (Source: qdnd.vn)– The Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) will hold a friendship exchange in Hanoi from December 8-11 with the participation of 500.Introducing the programme at a December 1 press conference, Major General Tran Van Xuan, Deputy Political Commissar of the force, said the event aims to enhance mutual understanding, build on trust, and create high consensus in cooperation between the VCG and other law enforcement forces at sea of countries in the region, especially neighbouring countries and those with bordering seas.Participating foreign forces consist of those from the Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand.The exchange is set to feature courtesy calls, bilateral meetings, a conference, a defence exhibition, and a trip to Hanoi’s historical and cultural destinations.The VCG has so far signed cooperation pacts with equivalent law enforcement agencies of nine countries – China, the US, Japan, the Republic of Korea, India, Cambodia, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Malaysia./.