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Welcome to this week's Words on the Street, where we explore the latest shifts shaping Vietnam's digital landscape, and look at Deepseek's quiet but intriguing entry into an AI market where ChatGPT reigns supreme.

Rampant illegal exploitation of minerals have been contaminating dozens of thousands of square metres of agricultural land, harming the environment in Phu Tho Province.

Ho Chi Minh City’s consumer price index (CPI) in October increased by 0.17 percent against the previous month and 4.89 percent year on year.

The UK government will provide strong continued support to Vietnam’s current reform process, Hugo Swire, Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, has said.

Representatives from the Quang Nam provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the International Labour Organization (ILO) met on October 21 to review an action programme to prevent and eliminate the worst forms of child labour.

Tourism companies in central coastal Quang Nam Province and Danang City have faced a great loss due to the recent Storm No. 11.

The police have arrested seven offenders who operated a large-scale online gambling website in HCM City, with accounts worth hundreds of billions of VND.

Three major mobile providers in Vietnam are facing fierce public criticism for a group monopoly after they decided to increase 3G service fees by 40% at the same time.

Three members of a Vietnamese family and a Canadian resident of Vietnamese origin lost their lives in the October 16 Lao Airlines plane crash believed to have killed 49 people from 11 countries.

Nari, the eleventh cyclonic storm of the year, left a trail of destruction amounting to an estimated 1.5 trillion VND (71 million USD) in central coastal provinces. It killed five people, and injured 49.

The Vietnam Red Cross Society (VRC) on October 16 decided to give emergency aid relief worth 2 billion VND in cash and kinds to three central provinces and city hardest hit by cyclonic storm Nari, the 11th to strike Vietnam this year.

Nearly 1,000 officials, soldiers and armed forces have been mobilised to help central provinces to cope with severe flooding caused by storm Nari.

Credit organizations forecast that the October consumer price index (CPI) will rise just 0.76% compared to the September figure of 1.06%.

Typhoon Nari is moving west and north-west in the next 24 hours at a speed of 10-15km per hour and will likely hit central Vietnam.

Vietnam gives top priority to adapting to climate change to minimize the consequences of floods, tidal surges, salt infiltration, and landslides, says Deputy Prime Minister Hoang Trung Hai.

A Viet Nam Airlines plane will transport General Vo Nguyen Giap’s coffin from Ha Noi to Quang Binh province where the former Commander-in-chief of the Viet Nam People’s Army rests in peace.

Many heads of state and government, and leaders of foreign political parties have sent condolences to Vietnam over the death of General Vo Nguyen Giap on Friday.

The new circular to deal with stabilizing the price of children`s formula products is not gaining much support from local traders and economists who doubt its effectiveness.

Forbes Viet Nam, the Vietnamese edition of the international Forbes magazine, has announced a list of the top 50 best companies on the country's stock exchange.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has passed an overall scheme to preserve and uphold the value of a World Cultural Heritage site - the Ho dynasty citadel.  

The Southern coastal province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on August 7 announced its programs in response to the Viet Nam-Japan Friendship Year celebrating the 40th anniversary of bilateral diplomatic ties.