Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- The government has focused on the implementation of law-making and institutional improvement throughout 2022, the Vietnam News Agency quoted Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh as saying at the government’s last monthly law-making session this year in Hanoi on Monday.

Society

-- A new cold front is expected to bring rains and low temperatures to northern Vietnam starting Wednesday, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. 

-- The administration in Quy Chau District in north-central Nghe An Province is seeking a prompt solution from competent agencies after two forest elephants had repeatedly damaged the crops and property of local residents.

-- Another child succumbed to serious injuries at a hospital on Monday after a group of children played with firecrackers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Sunday afternoon, raising the death toll of the incident to two.

-- There will be a total of six bridges connecting Tay Ninh and Binh Duong Provinces in southern Vietnam in the future, authorities of the two localities said on Monday.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have restarted the project to build a 3.2-kilometer-long route connecting Binh Chanh District with District 6 and District 8.

Business

-- A total of 700 stocks declined, of which 156 fell to the floor prices, after the trading session closed on Monday in Vietnam, with the VN-Index down 35.13 points (-3.44 percent) to 985.21.

World News

-- China will stop requiring inbound travelers to go into quarantine starting from January 8 in a major step towards easing curbs on its borders, which have been largely shut since 2020, Reuters quoted the National Health Commission as saying on Monday.

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