Check out what is in the news today, November 29

Politics

-- Bilateral ties of Vietnam and Poland will see robust growth in the years to come, visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda asserted after meeting with his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang in Hanoi on Tuesday.

-- Chairwoman of the Vietnamese lawmaking National Assembly Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan

affirmed Vietnam’s consistent policy of attaching great attention to fostering strategic partnership with Singapore during talks with her Singaporean counterpart Tan Chuan-Jin in the city-state on Tuesday.

Society

-- Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has called on Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc to approve the disbursement of VND4.78 trillion (US$208.7 million) to proceed with the city’s Metro Line No.1, which connects Ben Thanh Terminal in District 1 with Suoi Tien in District 9.

-- Search was ongoing for four missing crewmen aboard a fishing boat that had sunk on Monday night following the retrieval of two bodies.

-- The criminal police division under the Ministry of Public Security has affirmed they had identified two suspects who kidnapped and killed a neonate on Saturday last week.

Business

-- One hundred-fifty enterprises from across the country will display their products in approximately 300 stalls at a north-central region industry and trade fair, to run from December 1-7, an official revealed at a press conference on Tuesday.

-- Vietnam's electronics industry still imports up to 77 percent of the product value due partly to insufficient supporting policies, according to a survey released at a seminar on Tuesday.

-- A river tour from downtown Ho Chi Minh City to its outlying district of Can Gio will be launched in late December to cater to the burgeoning transport demand around and on the New Year Day, officials told a meeting on Tuesday.

Lifestyle

-- Nearly 10,000 postage stamps of various themes are on view until Thursday at the Youth Cultural House in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City.