Here are today’s leading news stories:

Society

-- Vietnam did not confirm any new cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Tuesday morning. The country’s tally is still at 270, with 222 having recovered.

-- The People’s High Court in Hanoi on Monday upheld the life sentence for former Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son for receiving US$3 million in bribes to facilitate the scandalous MobiFone-AVG deal.

-- A traffic police officer in Nha Trang City, located in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, has been suspended for one month after he was previously accused of asking a woman who was pulled over for a traffic violation to have sex with him in mid-April.

-- A 56-year-old man who was found dead on a passenger bus traveling from Hanoi to north-central Nghe An Province on Monday tested negative for the novel coronavirus, officials said.

-- More than 180 Russian citizens who were stranded in Vietnam due to the COVID-19 pandemic were flown home from Cam Ranh International Airport in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Monday.

-- Police in the northern province of Tuyen Quang are investigating the cause of death of a six-year-old boy whose body was found with bruises on his neck. His mother has exhibited signs of mental illness.

-- The grand opening day of the new Mien Dong (Eastern) Bus Terminal in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, once scheduled for late April 2020, has been postponed until the COVID-19 pandemic is under complete control in Vietnam.

Business

-- Vietnam’s export revenue from agro-forestry-fisheries products is estimated at US$2.9 billion in April, down 16.9 percent year-on-year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reported.

Education

-- All students of the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City are slated to go back to school on May 18, while the school’s dormitory will be reopened on May 11.

World News

-- The novel coronavirus has infected over 3.06 million people and claimed more than 211,500 lives around the world as of Tuesday morning, according to statistics. About 922,200 people have recovered from COVID-19.

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