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Society

-- Doan Thi Huong, a Vietnamese woman accused of killing North Korean citizen Kim Jong Nam, landed in Hanoi on Friday night, hours after she was released from a Kuala Lumpur prison in the morning.

-- A journalist of Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper on Friday received death threats from phone calls of a woman who is the plaintiff in a civil lawsuit in the south-central city of Nha Trang that his newspaper had previously reported.

-- Local people residing along the banks of To Lich River in Hanoi, which is seriously polluted by wastewater, were surprised by its sudden greener color on Friday, thanks to water released from the West Lake as a way to prevent flooding in the iconic lake following recent downpours in the Vietnamese capital.

Business

-- Vietnam’s newest carrier Bamboo Airways announced on its website on Friday that it will open commercial air routes from the northern port city of Hai Phong to Quy Nhon, the capital of the south-central province of Binh Dinh, Ho Chi Minh City, and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho from May 10 with one round-trip flight per day for each route.

-- Vietnam’s automobile import turnover reached US$2.4 billion in the first four months of 2019, up 95.6 percent year-on-year, of which imports of completely-built-unit cars from countries in the ASEAN soared 619.3 percent.

-- Ho Chi Minh City reported a zero turnover in gasoline import in the first four months of this year, as to businesses have switched to sourcing petroleum locally produced at Dung Quat oil refinery in the central province of Quang Ngai.

-- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has tasked the government inspectorate with coordinating with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and relevant agencies to scrutinize a recent power price hike that has been widely opposed by members of the public and local media.

Lifestyle

-- The 2019 European Book Days is taking place simultaneously in the three major cities of Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang from May 2 to 25.

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