Solidarity and kindness define Christmas in HCM City, where love transcends religion and ethnicity. A striking example is Most Venerable Thich Le Trang, Head of the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) Executive Board of HCM City, extended Christmas greetings to Archbishop Nguyen Nang of the Archdiocese of Ho Chi Minh City, and they pledged to guide believers and followers to live virtuous lives in love, compassion, and charity, serving as a vivid testament to religious unity.
Resolution No. 258/2025/QH15 pilots a number of special mechanisms and policies in the fields of investment, planning, urban development, architecture, construction, land, and finance to implement major and important projects in the capital.
The trial panel noted that the defendants who filed appeals had made honest confessions, shown remorse, and presented their difficult family circumstances. Some defendants also provided new details to support their appeals.
Christmas, also known as the Nativity of the Lord, marks the birth of Jesus Christ and is widely celebrated in many countries as a time for family reunions, sharing love and fostering a warm, joyful atmosphere within families and communities.
The eldest participant is 98-year-old Nguyen Thi Binh, a Hero of Labour and former Vice State President, while the youngest are five 11-year-old children.
Of the total, about 100 trillion VND will come from the central budget, 300 trillion VND from local budgets, and roughly 23 trillion VND from state-funded policy credit sources, according to Resolution No. 257/2025/QH15, freshly certified by National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man.
Under the pilot scheme, restrictions will apply on Thang Long Boulevard and National Highway 32 towards Ring Road 3 during the morning rush hour from 6.30 to 9.00am and in the afternoon from 4.30 to 7.30pm.
AI has been applied in administrative procedure monitoring, flood and rainfall tracking, traffic management, environmental supervision, public security and disaster prevention, helping reduce overdue dossiers and improve service quality.
As of December 21, repairs had been completed on more than 33,200 damaged houses (over 95%, with full completion expected by December 31, 2025), while 480 houses that collapsed or were swept away by floods have been rebuilt (over 29%, with full completion expected by January 31, 2026).
At the event on protecting national financial security in the digital age, Lieutenant General Nguyen Minh Chinh, permanent deputy chairman of the National Cybersecurity Association, said that in the current digital age, financial security has become a direct and inseparable component of national security.
The development of the railway industry should be pursued in the spirit of not only serving Vietnam, but also contributing to meeting the needs of other countries in the region; participating in the railway ecosystem for developed countries, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said.
The Deputy PM urged the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment to collect feedback from committee members to finalise the report and submit it to the EC by December 31, 2025.
Under a medium-fertility scenario, Vietnam’s population is expected to continue growing for several decades before reaching a peak around mid-century, followed by a transition toward slower growth or stability.
Between 2018 and 2025, several officials and specialists at the Food Safety Authority allegedly abused legal regulations to solicit and accept bribes in exchange for the appraisal and issuance of various permits.
In reality, behind claims made in the name of “human rights” lies a long-standing set of tactics aimed not at protecting freedom of belief or religion, but at undermining social stability, sowing divisions within the great national solidarity bloc, and smearingVietnam’s international image.
Working with the border guard and police, the Department of Agriculture and Environment will pull together all available resources to investigate, verify, and thoroughly deal with cases where vessels lose VMS (vessel monitoring system) connection, cross fishing boundaries, or enter foreign waters illegally.
To date, 9,789 fishing vessels in An Giang have been updated in the national VNFishbase database. Since early this year, inspection forces have carried out 138 vessel checks and detected 53 vessels showing signs of violations.
Under the campaign, Tra Tan will focus on building and repairing houses for 18 households that lost their homes entirely. Families living in areas with a high risk of landslides will be relocated to concentrated resettlement sites or integrated resettlement locations in safer areas.
Authorities and residents in Van Mieu commune, the northern province of Phu Tho, discovered a large unexploded bomb buried beneath the bank of the He River on the morning of December 22, posing potential safety risks.
Hoang Thi Thuy Lan, former Secretary of the Party Committee of Vinh Phuc province (before its merger with Phu Tho and Hoa Binh), had her prison sentence reduced from 14 years to 11 years and six months. Former Chairman of the Vinh Phuc provincial People’s Committee Le Duy Thanh will serve eight years and six months in prison, down from 12 years previously.
