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Society

-- Nguyen Minh Due, president of the Vietnam Energy Science Council, has stated that the Southeast Asian country is still at high risk of environmental pollution due to the operations of many fossil fuel power plants.  

-- Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has ordered the prompt search for a woman and her child who had gone missing in a raft accident along the Saigon River on Sunday.

-- Rescuers in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh are still looking for five fishermen after their boat capsized while operating near Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago on Friday.

-- Three children in the northern province of Quang Ninh drowned on Saturday after taking a swim in a local lake, authorities confirmed on Sunday.

-- A roof collapse at a house in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau killed the owner and two of her neighbors, and injured a three-year-old boy on Sunday afternoon.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have discovered some 164 fake driver’s licenses since the beginning of this year.

-- Police in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City are probing suspects involved in the murder of a 21-year-old man on Sunday afternoon.

-- Major hospitals in Hanoi are being overloaded owing to the large number of patients infected with dengue fever.

Business

-- Experts in Vietnam have stated that the country still faces many challenges to compete with China in the production of leather shoes because of limited labor productivity.

-- Vietnam’s rice exports in the first seven months of 2017 have increased by 16 percent year-on-year, while the county’s shipments of fruit and vegetables have risen by nearly 50 percent in the same period, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

Sports

-- The Vietnamese team on Sunday left for New Delhi, India to prepare for their participation in the 2017 Vovinam World Championship, which will take place there from August 2 to 5. 

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