(Source:VNA)
The Vietnamese team won over the judges with their summer rolls and rainbow fried rice, securing the top prize at the recent 15th Multicultural Cuisine Contest in Seoul.
All five Vietnamese students Hanoi excelled at the 2025 World Young Physicists Olympiad (WYPO), held recently in Indonesia, winning two silver and three bronze medals.
Vinh Long currently has 4,628 registered fishing vessels, 4,450 of which are licenced for fishing, accounting for 96.2%. Since early this year, no local vessels have violated foreign waters or been detained by foreign authorities.
The city People’s Committee has submitted the proposal to the municipal People’s Council for immediate consideration, seeking approval to launch what officials describe as a critical infrastructure intervention to protect the fast-growing southern urban zone from recurring inundation.
VNPT attributed the disruption to a satellite malfunction that interrupted signal transmission, causing instability in the VMS equipment of many fishing boats. Of the affected vessels, more than 400 currently operating offshore were directly impacted, while the rest remain docked.
The total research scale for the Olympic sports urban area is approximately 16,080 hectares, with subdivision A covering about 3,280 hectares. The planning period extends to 2045, with a vision set for 2065.
VINBAX 2025 marks the sixth Vietnam–India peacekeeping exercise overall and their fourth field-based drill. It began in 2018 in India in the form of tabletop simulations, continued in Vietnam in 2019, and then gradually upgraded to full-scale field drills under bilateral defence agreements.
After ten days of implementing a peak campaign against IUU fishing from October 29 to November 8, patrol and inspection forces of Coast Guard Region 3, in coordination with Border Guard Squadron 18, detected and fined 54 fishing vessels, collecting more than 580 million VND (about 22,000 USD) in fines.
The Vietnam Red Cross Society has decided to allocate over 3.3 billion VND (125,472 USD) in cash and goods to assist Dak Lak, Gia Lai, and Quang Ngai provinces, with the funding from its H2025 relief account at Vietcombank and from the “Clean Water for Communities” project, sponsored by Procter & Gamble (P&G) through Americares.
During the four-day programme, thousands of leaflets were distributed, covering topics such as border management agreements and protocols, the agreement on regulations for management of the Vietnam–China land border, immigration and customs laws, border gate management, and measures to combat smuggling and trade fraud, as well as the importance of safeguarding national sovereignty and border security.
Initial surveys in late 2023 revealed that the ship measured roughly 15m in length and 3m in width, and was similar in shape to merchant ships used by Hoi An people in previous centuries, the centre reported.
The Vietnamese community in the UK has raised nearly 9,000 GBP (about 11,833 USD) to support residents in central and northern Vietnam who have been affected by recent storms and floods.
Leaders of the Vietnam Journalists’ Association and the All-China Journalists Association agreed to further strengthen exchanges of delegations, cooperation in modern communication, and journalism training, contributing to mutual understanding and friendship between the two countries’ media communities.
Permanent Deputy PM Nguyen Hoa Binh attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Son Kim 1 Primary and Junior Secondary Boarding School in Ha Tinh province.
In Yen Khuong commune, the PM called for greater attention to school health, nutrition for children and the elderly, and the development of a civil-military medical cooperation model, not only to serve local residents but also to support people living across the border in Laos.
The NA leader called on the VFF Committee of Can Tho to innovate its operations, stay close to the people, and enhance mobilisation efforts to care for policy beneficiaries, those who rendered service to the nation, and low-income households.
Human is the most valuable capital, acting as the goal, a driving force, and also a resource for development, the PM remarked, stating that investing in education means investing in development.
The simultaneous beginning of construction on 72 schools, with the participation of leaders of the Government, ministries, sectors, and localities, is meant to reflect the strong determination and close coordination across the entire political system in caring for students in border areas.
The Saigon Union of Trading Cooperatives (Saigon Co.op) has urgently deployed an emergency support package, sending tens of tonnes of essential goods and relief teams to provinces hit by by recent historic storms and floods across central and northern Vietnam.
Leaders of Coast Guard Region 4 said the campaign aims to raise awareness of the Party's guidelines and the State's laws on IUU prevention and control, fostering responsibility and cooperation among fishermen, captains, and vessel owners.
