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☀️ Morning digest on November 26

The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

☀️ Morning digest on November 26

Hanoi (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- State President Luong Cuong on November 25 received Governor of Russia’s Kaluga oblast Vladislav Valerievich Shapsha, who is on a working visit to Vietnam.

President Cuong affirmed that the Party, State, and people of Vietnam always remember the affection, support, and assistance that the people of the former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation today have given to Vietnam in its past struggle for national liberation, its post-war reconstruction, and in the current process of building and developing the nation. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a working session in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25 with representatives from foreign enterprises in the financial sector attending the 2025 Autumn Economic Forum to discuss the development of an international financial centre ecosystem in Vietnam.

The meeting saw the participation of leaders of ministries and sectors, as well as representatives of financial and technology corporations such as Sun Seven Stars, Sunwah, DeepGreenX, Ant International, Dragon Capital, Binance Investment Co., Ltd, Nam A Bank, VietinBank, MB Bank, TikTok Vietnam, VinaCapital Investment Fund, and REE (Refrigeration Electrical Engineering) Corp. Read full story

- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has underlined that having the European Commission (EC)’s "yellow card" warning over illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing removed in 2025 and sustainably developing the fisheries sector is an urgent and essential task, one that must be completed without delay.

He made the request while chairing the 23rd meeting of the National Steering Committee for Combating IUU Fishing in Ho Chi Minh City on November 25. The session was held via videoconference connecting the southern city, the Government Office, and 21 coastal provinces and cities. Read full story

- New Zealand is one of Vietnam’s most important partners in the region, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung told Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the southwestern Pacific Ocean country, during their meeting in Hanoi on November 25.

The Deputy PM said the two countries enjoy a high level of political trust, share the goal of sustainable and mutually beneficial cooperation, and hold similar views on many strategic issues. Read full story

- New Zealand is one of Vietnam’s most important partners in the region, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung told Winston Peters, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the southwestern Pacific Ocean country, during their meeting in Hanoi on November 25.

The Deputy PM said the two countries enjoy a high level of political trust, share the goal of sustainable and mutually beneficial cooperation, and hold similar views on many strategic issues. Read full story

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Disasters have cause estimated economic losses of more than 85 trillion VND in Vietnam since the start of 2025. (Photo: VNA)


- Successive and severe natural disasters that have struck Vietnam since the beginning of this year have left 409 people dead or missing and 727 others injured, with estimated economic losses of more than 85 trillion VND (3.2 billion USD).

The disasters have also caused 337,297 houses to collapse, be swept away, damaged, or lose their roofs; and 553,417 hectares of rice and other crops, along with 376,792 hectares of other plants, to be flooded and damaged. Read full story

- Stories about the nearly two-century journey of the Vietnamese coffee, from the earliest plantations to the iconic Vietnamese phin-brewing culture, will be vividly reenacted at the upcoming Global Coffee Heritage Festival 2025.

This information was shared at a press conference announcing the festival, held on November 25 in Ho Chi Minh City. Read full story

- Ships 09 and 17 of Brigade 171 under Naval Region 2 docked at the brigade’s port in Ho Chi Minh City’s Rach Dua ward on November 25, completing the 39th joint patrol in the Gulf of Tonkin between the Vietnamese and Chinese navies.

The joint patrol between the Vietnam People’s Navy and the People’s Liberation Army Navy of China in the Gulf of Tonkin has been an annual coordinated activity between the two sides since 2006. Read full story

- A delegation from the Scientific Council of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) commissions visited Cuba from November 16 to 24 to deepen cooperation and share experience in theoretical and scientific research.

At a reception for the delegation, Roberto Morales Ojeda, Politburo member, Permanent Member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) Central Committee, and head of its Organisation Commission, offered condolences to the Vietnamese people and Government on the flood losses in the central region, and thanked Vietnam for the solidarity extended to Cuba in response to the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa./. Read full story

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