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Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Tuesday held talks with his Cambodian counterpart Samdech Techo Hun Sen via videoconference to discuss ways to enhance bilateral relations and exchange views on some international and regional issues of mutual concern, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- Vietnam on Tuesday reported four new imported COVID-19 cases who were put in quarantine in Hanoi and the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long after entering the country in November, according to the Ministry of Health.

-- Vietnam’s COVID-19 tally on Wednesday morning reached 1,316, with 1,153 recoveries and 35 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

-- Vietnamese Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Xuan Cuong, authorized by the Vietnamese government, and Andrew Jeffries, country director of the Asian Development Bank, on Tuesday signed an agreement on the bank’s emergency aid of US$2.5 million to help Vietnam address natural disasters’ consequences in the central region, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- The Hanoi Center for Disease Control's deputy director La Thi Lan on Tuesday pointed out that two recent episodes of TV drama ‘Lua Am,' which is being broadcast on national television channel VTV1, have delivered “seriously false knowledge” about HIV/AIDS exposure.  

Lifestyle

-- The History Museum in Ho Chi Minh City is hosting an exhibition on Vietnamese banknotes through historical periods, displaying nearly 1,200 objects and documents from a private collection of local collector Huynh Tan Thanh. The exhibition will run through March next year.

Education

-- A group of 11 Vietnamese students from middle, high school, and university levels last week worked with the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit to develop creative comic messages in a communications campaign to promote appropriate antibiotics usage and tackle the issue of antimicrobial resistance in Vietnam, as part of the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020, the UK Embassy in Hanoi announced on its verified Facebook page.

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