Read what is in the news today.

Society

-- Parts of a nightclub collapsed, injuring six people and killing one, while it was under repair in Ba Ria City, located in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau, on Friday afternoon.

-- Police in the southern province of Binh Phuoc said on Friday evening that they were investigating a case where a woman found the body of her husband had been mysteriously burned in a landfill measuring two meters deep in a pepper garden in Phu Rieng a day earlier.

-- Police in Thai Binh Province, located in northern Vietnam, on Friday launched legal proceedings against Lai Thi Kieu Trang, a 25-year-old woman in Kien Xuong District, for murdering a nurse at Thai Binh Lung Disease Hospital in Thai Binh City, the capital of the province, as Trang sent poisoned bubble tea to a love rival but ended up killing the target’s co-worker instead last month.

-- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines confirmed on Friday that one purser had smuggled a large volume of cigarettes and medicated massage oil from Japan to the central city of Da Nang and then to Ho Chi Minh City, where her illegal act was discovered by local police and the security force at Tan Son Nhat Son Nhat International Airport on Thursday.

Business

-- Vietnam’s newest carrier Bamboo Airways received the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Operational Safety Audit (IOSA) certificate, an internationally recognized and accepted evaluation system designed to assess the operational management and control systems of an airline, at a ceremony in Hanoi on Friday.

-- People are casting doubt on whether speedboat operators in the northern province of Quang Ninh together corner the market by manipulation that has led to an increase ticket prices for the Van Don – Co To route, which connects the two namesake island districts.

-- The selling price of gold in Vietnam on Friday approached VND43 million (US$1,861) per tael, a three-month high since September 2019.

Lifestyle

-- Le Van Tam Park in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 is hosting the inaugural Tet Festival 2020, featuring Vietnam’s finest delicacies from Friday to Sunday, some 20 days before the Lunar New Year holiday in the country.

-- Mu Cang Chai Terraced Fields in Mu Cang Chai District, located in the northern province of Yen Bai, was recognized as one of the new seven Special National Relic Sites on Friday.

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