Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- The administration in Thu Duc City, a district-level unit under Ho Chi Minh City, on Saturday evening inaugurated the Creative Park stretching over one kilometer along the Saigon River. The park is expected to become a new symbol of the city.

-- Police in Tien Giang Province, southern Vietnam said on Saturday that they were keeping six men in criminal custody for their involvement in a case of setting off fireworks and dancing on National Highway 1 to celebrate a birthday party on Thursday.

-- About 7,220 people from 23 units were mobilized for a fire drill at Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street and Bach Dang Wharf Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.

-- Traffic police in Hanoi fined nearly 8,400 violators of road traffic regulations in the first 10 days of 2025 a total of VND21.5 billion (US$847,615) officers reported on Saturday evening.

Business

-- Vietnamese travelers’ bookings of tours to Thailand during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet, still grow strongly with no one canceled their bookings despite news about a Chinese actor falling victim to a human trafficking network after going missing at the Thailand-Myanmar border.

-- “South Korean conglomerate SK Group plans to sell about a fifth of its holding in Vietnam's Vingroup, starting from next week,” Reuters reported, citing a Vingroup filing.

Lifestyle

-- As the Lunar New Year approaches, tourists from other localities have flocked to Sa Dec Flower Village in Dong Thap Province, southern Vietnam to take photos and purchase blooms.

World News

-- “The lawyer for TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance offered a warning during Supreme Court arguments over a law that would compel the sale of the short-video app or ban it in the United States: If Congress could do this to TikTok, it could come after other companies, too,” according to Reuters.

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