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Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Vo Van Thuong suggested that China intensify its investment in major projects in Vietnam, connecting railways and roads between the two countries, at a meeting with Cai Qi, secretary of the Secretariat of the Chinese Communist Party and member of the CCP Politburo Standing Committee, in Beijing on Thursday.

-- Vietnam and Saudi Arabia consider waiving visas for tourists from both countries, according to what was discussed during a meeting between Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnamese Minister of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, and Haifa bint Muhammad Al Saud, a Saudi royal and Deputy Minister of Tourism, on Thursday.

Society

-- The Mekong Delta of Vietnam may face early saline intrusion which is forecast to begin in mid or late December, with greater severity than previous years, meteorologists warned.

-- Tiny spaces for rent, loosely called 'sleep boxes,' are mushrooming in Ho Chi Minh City, entailing a risk of fire, local police said. 

-- During a ceremony in Samarkand, Uzbekistan on Thursday, the United Nations World Tourism Organization honored Tan Hoa, a commune under Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province, north-central Vietnam, as one of the best tourism villages in the world.

Business

-- Vietnam's import-export revenue has reached approximately US$523 billion in the year to date, according to the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

-- Vietnam raked in $377.78 million from 605,410 metric tons of rice exported to other countries in January-September, said the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

-- Yasser M. Mufti, executive vice-president of Aramco, the state owned petroleum and natural gas company of Saudi Arabia, said during a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday that the oil group was interested in exploring investment in refineries in Vietnam.

World News

-- "You may never have to read another news story in your life, if you have artificial intelligence that can digest all the web’s information and serve up a summary on demand," Reuters reported. "That’s the stuff of nightmares for media barons as Google and others experiment with what's called generative AI, which creates new content drawing from past data."

-- "A team of international scientists collected fish samples from a port town near Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant on Thursday, seeking to assess the impact of the plant's recent release of treated radioactive water into the sea," according to Reuters.

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