Have a nice Sunday!

Society

-- Two Cambodian nationals have been caught smuggling around one kilogram of synthetic drugs into Vietnam. 

-- Residents in Bac Lieu City, the heart of a name-sake Mekong Delta province, have complained about attacks of a type of virus-transmitting mosquitoes over the past several days.

-- The number of crystal meth addicts in Ho Chi Minh City has spiraled worryingly upwards in recent times, delegates told a recent meeting.

-- Severe torrential rains on Friday killed 14 people and inundated more than 90,000 homes in the central provinces of Quang Binh, Ha Tinh and Thua Thien-Hue. Le Thanh Hai, general director of Vietnam's National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, has also warned of more downpours and floods in the central region next week as Storms Sarika and Haima are approaching the East Vietnam Sea.

-- The Ministry of Health has confirmed the sixth and seventh cases testing positive for Zika, caused by the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Vietnam since April this year. The two female patients reside in District 2 and District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, which has the country’s highest infection rate. Four foreigners have also informed Vietnamese localities of their infection during their stay in the Southeast Asian country.

-- Doctors at a general hospital in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak revealed on Saturday that many local farmers have lost their lives or limbs in accidents while working on lawn mowers, one of their everyday farming tools, in recent months.

Business

-- While domestic fashion brands are struggling to take root in the local market, their foreign counterparts, ranging from average to middle-class   ones, have made foray into and been enthusiastically embraced in Vietnamese cities over recent times.

-- An official from the Ho Chi Minh City Export Processing Zone and Industrial Zone Authority (HEPZA) said they will provide potential investors with auspicious conditions by simplifying administrative procedures and cutting processing time by at least 30 percent in a bid to boost investment. HEPZA attracted investment totaling a mere US$354.77 million in the first nine months of 2016, down by nearly 54 percent against the same period last year.