Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and State President To Lam and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam on Thursday morning (local time) visited the Mariel Special Development Zone, the first free trade and export processing zone of Cuba, as part of his ongoing state visit to the Caribbean country.

-- Cuba organized a welcome ceremony for Party General Secretary and State President To Lam at the Revolution Palace in the Cuban capital city of La Habana on Thursday afternoon (local time).

-- The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt and Lebanon on Thursday continued to recommend Vietnamese citizens living and working in Lebanon leave the country, amid an escalating conflict in the Middle East.

Society

-- Vietnam has leaped two places in the Global Innovation Index (GII) in 2024, ranking 44th out of 132 countries and territories, heard the 2024 GII announcement ceremony held by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Switzerland on Thursday.

-- The standing board of the Party Committee in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam has decided to preserve a 100-year-old villa, situated in Buu Long Ward, Bien Hoa City, to promote its cultural, historical, and architectural values, the provincial Party Committee Office announced on Thursday afternoon.

-- A public charging station for electric vehicles, located in Deutsches Haus (German House) Ho Chi Minh City, which is home to the Consulate General of Germany, was put into service on Thursday.

Business

-- Hundreds of customers, including residents of Ho Chi Minh City and other neighboring provinces, and foreigners, started lining up at shops in the southern metropolis at midnight on Thursday to get the new iPhone 16 before it went on sale across Vietnam at 0:01 on Friday.

-- A series of exotic bicycle models are being showcased at the Vietnam Cycle Expo 2024, which kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday.

Lifestyle

-- ‘Dao, Pho and Piano’ has been chosen to represent Vietnam in the pre-qualification round of the 2024 Oscars in the U.S., which will take place in March next year.

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