Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Chairman of Vietnam’s law-making National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man and his spouse will pay official visits to Singapore and Japan from December 1 to 7 at the invitations of Speaker of the Singaporean Parliament Kian Peng Seah and his spouse, and President of the House of Councillors - the upper chamber of the Japanese National Diet - Sekiguchi Masakazu and his spouse, the NA’s Committee for External Relations announced on Thursday.

Society

-- Authorities in Thu Duc City, a district-level unit under Ho Chi Minh City, said on Friday that they were identifying and summoning people related to a case in which a man clung to the front end of a moving truck in the city. 

-- One person died of suspected food poisoning after consuming banh mi from an establishment in Vung Tau City, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam, a leader of a local hospital reported on Friday. Over 310 people have been hospitalized after eating banh mi from the bakery.

-- Phu Quoc, an island city off Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam, is forecast to welcome nearly six million tourists this year, including 962,449 international travelers, rising 43 percent over the figure in 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Kien Giang Department of Tourism.

-- Vietnam’s male surplus will reach 1.5 million by 2034 and 2.5 million by 2059 if the country’s ratio of boys to girls at birth is still high, an official from the Ministry of Health cited the General Statistics Office as saying.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies and the Australia - Vietnam Policy Institute on Friday signed a memorandum of understanding on digital transformation, energy transition, green economy, and super city governance using technology.

Business

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance on Friday proposed eliminating a policy to exempt the value-added tax on products valued below VND1 million (US$39.3) each imported via express delivery services.

-- Vietnam exported US$924 million worth of seafood products in November, up 17 percent year on year, taking its seafood export revenue in January-November to nearly $9.2 billion, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers reported on Friday.

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