Badminton player Vu Thi Trang will play Nguyen Thuy Linh in the all-Vietnamese women’s singles final at the Yonex Sunrise Bangladesh International Challenge today.

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 Traffic police nation-wide will begin a two-month-long campaign to ensure traffic safety and social order for the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday.

 A range of activities showcasing nearly four decades of development co-operation between Finland and Viet Nam will take place across the country as part of the “Finland 100 years” celebrations.

 Hanoi is the cradle of ca tru, an ancient genre of chamber music featuring female vocalists. Many talented singers have emerged from Hanoi’s Ca tru clubs.

 This coming December 18-27 the 10th annual Thanh Nien Newspaper U21 International Football Tournament will transpire at the Thong Nhat Stadium in Ho Chi Minh City with six participating teams.

 Here is a list of weekend getaways near Ho Chi Minh City. Experience a relaxing and comforting environment in these idyllic locations and come back rejuvenated.

 Mother Goddess Worship or Dao Mau, which began in the 16th century in Vietnam has been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

 The International Cocoa Organization (ICCO) says Vietnam appears to be the new frontier of cocoa cultivation and is a promising region for production expansion given inadequate global supplies.

 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.