Here’s the news you shouldn’t miss today.

Society

-- Officials and public servants must use their true identity and portraits on social media according to a draft code of conduct in the social media environment formulated by Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications.

-- Twelve people, including the director of a private business and his subordinates, were brought to the first court hearing for on Wednesday on charges of smuggling oil that costs VND2 trillion ($86 million).

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said Wednesday that it had busted a football (soccer) betting ring in Hanoi and seized VND500 billion ($22 million) from the gambling.  

-- A two-year-old and three-year-old from a poor family in the southern Vietnamese province of Kien Giang drowned Monday after slipping into a river while collecting aquatic plants for food with their sibling.

-- A male driver died and three passengers were seriously wounded as his truck careened down the bank of a spring in northwestern Vietnam on Wednesday. An official attributed the tragedy to the tortuous road, its slippery surface and low visibility in rain.

-- Vietnam police are hunting 27-year-old Nguyen Van Trang, who has been suspected of undermining the state by publishing Facebook posts, images and videos running counter to its policies.

Business

-- Vietnam has Wednesday naturalized as Vietnamese citizens 119 Laotians who usually traveled between the country and Laos for many years to make a livelihood.

 -- Ho Chi Minh City has received an increasing flux of imported goods, mainly consumer products, wine and materials for production, with the Cat Lai Port – its largest terminal – having got VND960 billion ($41 million) in recent weeks, the municipal customs department said.

-- The Ministry of Information and Communications has suggested including services providing contents on the Internet in the new definition of ‘broadcast services’ and this means that the content there is regulated by the press law.

-- Authorities in the central metropolis of Da Nang is planning to have waste water meters installed at local business facilities and factories and along the coast in a bid to control the discharge of liquid waste into the coastal waters that tourists flock to.

-- Major Vietnamese internet security corporation Bkav has warned another generation of GandCrab is attacking users nationwide as the ransomware had infected 3,900 computers in the country. No users here had paid ransom, the firm said.

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