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Politics

-- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to further deepen the Japan- Vietnam relationship during an exclusive interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on the occasion of his official visit to Hanoi on January 16 and 17.

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong left Zhejiang Province on Sunday evening, concluding his official visit to China scheduled for January 12 to 15.

Society

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport is expected to issue a digital map providing information on traffic on the city’s streets on Thursday.

-- The Party Committee in the central city of Da Nang has approved the construction of an underwater tunnel spanning across the city’s iconic Han River in 2018, at an estimated cost of VND4.7 trillion (US$208.2 million).

-- Noise pollution has become an alarming issue in several neighborhoods in Ho Chi Minh City as many families and organizations have begun to organize year-end parties, with loudspeakers and karaoke machines.

-- Three young men on a single motorcycle were killed after colliding with a truck on a section of National Highway 1 in the southern province of Dong Nai on Sunday evening.

-- Doctors at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital in Hanoi have been able to rescue a 27-year-old male patient who had had his heart impaled by six metal sticks.

-- Several decorative light bulbs, which are part of Ho Chi Minh City’s decorations for the Lunar New Year, on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in District 1 burst into flames on Sunday night. 

Business

-- Vietnam has become the world’s second-biggest exporter of sneakers, the Vietnam Leather, Footwear and Handbag Association cited the recent statistics of the World Footwear Association.

-- Vietnamese travelers to India have increased sharply in recent years, Smita Pant, Consul General of India in Ho Chi Minh City, has said.

-- Myanmarese authorities have permitted Viettel, Vietnam’s largest mobile operator under the Ministry of National Defense, to provide telecom services in Myanmar for 15 years.

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