Ho Chi Minh City has a great potential for water-way tourism with about 1,000 km of rivers and canals connecting it with neighboring provinces, Thailand, and Cambodia. The city intends to market water-way services as a tourism product.

 On December 10, the Binh Dan Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City inaugurated the first robot-assisted surgery centre in Vietnam, allowing doctors to introduce and apply advanced technologies in minimal-access surgery to benefit patients.

 Tourism packages combining meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) hold big potential for cooperation between Vietnamese and Singaporean travel agencies, as heard at a roadshow event in Singapore on December 9.

 A tourism promotion event was held in Kuala Lumpur on December 7 by the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) in collaboration with Vietnam’s Embassy in Malaysia.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has had a meeting with representatives from the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transportation and Tourism to discuss the decline in the volume of sediment in Vietnam’s rivers.

Vietnam has a long list of tasks to fulfill in order to meet its commitments to reduce 8 percent of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 under the historic Paris Agreement, Jenty Kirsch Wood, senior technical specialist of UNDP said.

 Two classical music concerts will be held in HCM City on December 12 to welcome the Christmas season.

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 The property market expects to see a wave of developers expand into affordable housing developments, which faced a severe shortage until the Government took steps to promote investment.

The Vietnam National University of Agriculture should seek to encourage businesses to reduce the use of pesticide and increase investment on organic and high-quality agriculture to achieve the green growth target, said PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 All six Vietnamese students have won prizes, including two gold medals, at the 13th International Junior Science Olympiad (IJSO), held in Bali, Indonesia.

 Malaysian Naval Region Command 1 (Mawilla 1) has seized a Vietnamese fishing boat with 12 fishermen onboard which was allegedly operating in Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone, reported local media of Malaysia.

 Over 600 people attended the “Race for Wildlife 2016” held in Hanoi on December 11 by the Hanoi Red River Runners and the Education for Nature Vietnam (ENV).

 The Czech activist, Marcel Winter, was re-elected as the President of the Czech-Vietnam Society (CVS) at the congress of the society, which convened in Prague on December 10 . 

 Vietnam always supports the Act East Policy and the increase of presence and connection of India in the Southeast Asia, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan told Indian President Pranab Mukherjee. 

 A delegation from the Overseas Party Organisation had a meeting with key leaders of the Communist Party of Canada, during which he expressed his hope for stronger ties between the two parties in the future.

 National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan made a trip to Bodh Gaya city in Bihar State on December 11 as her last stop during her stay in India from December 8-11. 

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