The National Best Tennis Players Tournament will run from December 17-22 in the central province of Nghe An, the event’s organisers announced yesterday.

Lawmakers voiced support for appointing a single chief to run each special administrative-economic unit, instead of setting up People’s Councils and People’s Committees, while discussing a draft law on such units on November 22.

"South Korea has fulfilled up to 99% of the workload for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Peyongchang city from February 9-25, 2018," said Jihye Lee, PR manager of the Pyeongchang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic & Paralympic Winter Games. 

Vietnamese commercial banks are planning to sell a stake in their company to foreign investors to attract capital and hasten their restructuring before listing shares on the bourse. 

 The cold spell in the northern region strengthened and brought down the temperature to below 8 degrees Celsius in mountainous areas on November 22.

 Some 80 golfers will compete at the Ladies’ National Amateur Golfer Championship  2017, which begins at FLC Quy Nhon Golf Links in the central coastal province of Binh Dinh on December 7.

 The benchmark VN-Index hit an almost decade-high on November 22 after large cash flows poured into blue-chip stocks on investor optimism over a sustainable uptrend.

 A freight train service between Hanoi and Nanchang city in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi was launched on November 22.

 The Gabriel Péri Foundation of France held an international seminar on the East Sea at the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium, on November 21.

 With 83.1 percent of approval, the National Assembly approved a resolution on investment policy for the construction of some road sections in the eastern route of the North-South Expressway in 2017-2020.

NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan will pay official visits to Singapore and Australia from November 26 to December 2, according to a statement of the NA Committee for External Relations released on November 22.

 The Vietnamese Party and State always attach importance to the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation with Laos, affirmed Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Minister of National Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich has highly valued the deputy ministerial-level defence strategic dialogue between Vietnam and Russia.

 Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh had a meeting with the Republic of Korea (RoK) National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun in Seoul on November 22 to seek specific measures to forge the two countries’ future partnership, especially in legislation.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc suggested Vietnam and Sweden expand cooperation in various realms during his reception for Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström in Hanoi on November 22. 

 Vietnam’s Permanent Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son held a political consultation with Secretary General of the Federal Public Service (FPS) Foreign Affairs of Belgium Dirk Achten in Hanoi on November 22. 

 Deputies of the 14th National Assembly debated the draft Law on the Protection of State Secrets during their November 22 sitting.

 The Ministry of Public Security is working on a national database that will store and supply “basic” and accurate information about citizens via their personal ID numbers.

Though the peak time of the dry season has yet to arrive, the water level on the Red, Thai Binh and Day Rivers has been decreasing, posing a risk of water shortage for hundreds of thousands of hectares of farmland.

Vietnam is still under big pressure to call for capital for domestic debt swap, with 50 percent of domestic debts expected to reach maturity in the next three years, according to the World Bank.