Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and a high-level Vietnamese delegation arrived in Bucharest on Saturday afternoon (local time), beginning an official visit to Romania through Monday at the invitation of Romanian Prime Minister Ion-Marcel Ciolacu.

-- Vietnam has full legal basis and ample historical evidence to affirm its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos, spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Pham Thu Hang said on Saturday in response to reporters’ questions about Vietnam's opinion on China's illegal occupation of Hoang Sa since 1974.

Society

-- The People’s Court of Dak Lak Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands on Saturday condemned ten defendants to life in prison on charges of terrorism aimed at opposing the people’s administration. They were among 100 defendants involved in armed attacks on the headquarters of two communes in the province on June 11 last year. The 90 others were sentenced to nine months to 20 years behind bars each.

-- Ho Chi Minh City authorities have dismantled an over-400-meter-long wall which separated Tan Son Nhat International Airport from an adjacent residential area for three decades to make room for a road section near the airport.

-- Residents in Nam Can District, Ca Mau Province, located in southern Vietnam, found the bodies of two out of three missing people who used an electric saw to cut a bomb, causing an explosion on a local riverbank, an official said on Saturday.

-- Police in Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam on Saturday arrested two men who attempted to rob a bank in neighboring Da Nang City on Friday.

Business

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Transport has required the Vietnam Maritime Administration and relevant agencies to support enterprises amid a surge in the prices of container shipping services to Europe and the Americas by sea.

-- Nearly 5,000 real estate enterprises in Vietnam left the market in 2023, according to the Ministry of Construction.

Lifestyle

-- A charitable market called 'Zero VND Tet Market' is being held at the Youth Culture House in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City to help underprivileged households have necessities for the Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet, in February, attracting representatives of 2,000 disadvantaged households on Saturday.

World News

-- “A fire in a central China school dormitory killed 13 students and injured another, prompting the authorities to call for screening fire risks in crowded places,” Reuters reported.

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