What you need to know in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Icelandic President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and his wife visited a popular tourist site on Thoi Son Islet, located in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, on Saturday as part of their four-day official visit to Vietnam, which began on Tuesday.

Business

-- The Vietnamese Embassy in Japan and Japanese retail giant AEON Co. Ltd. on Saturday organized an event in Chiba Prefecture to promote a variety of Vietnamese mangoes.

-- The government has released a decree regarding support industries, which will take effect on January 1, 2016. The decree stipulates that aid amounting to 50 percent of production costs will be offered to individuals and organizations.

-- The People’s Committee in the northern province of Quang Ninh announced at a seminar on Saturday their planning of the Mong Cai Border Gate Economic Zone, expected to grow into the country’s largest of its kind.

-- Huynh Du An, general director of Can Gio Tourism Co., said during a meeting with the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee and competent agencies on Saturday that his company seeking approval for a mammoth project to turn areas in the outlying district of Can Gio into a region and world-class urban zone home to luxury resorts and shopping malls.

Society

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City are hunting for the car driver in a hit-and-run accident which happened on early Saturday and killed a 51-year-old Danish man.

-- The SAR 412 search and rescue ship of the Maritime Rescue Coordination Center Zone 2 on Saturday brought seven fishermen from a boat whose engine failed off the central city of Da Nang on November 3 to safety.

-- According to the Ho Chi Minh City Preventive Health Center, 13,856 hospitalized instances of dengue fever were reported in the first 10 months of this year, a 96-percent rise over the same period last year. The disease has claimed five lives.

Lifestyle

-- Two Vietnamese building designs have won awards at the 2015 World Architecture Festival, which was organized in Singapore from Wednesday to Friday and gathered around 2,000 architects from leading companies the world over.