Here are today’s leading news stories:

Society

-- Two people died on the spot and one was injured as a car crashed into a motorbike traveling on the opposite side in Kon Tum City of the namesake province in Vietnam's Central Highlands on Sunday afternoon.

-- The Department of Cybersecurity and Hi-Tech Crime Prevention under the Ministry of Public Security on Sunday broke up a massive online gambling ring whose transactions totaled about VND14 trillion (US$618 million).

-- A male tenth-grader passed away after falling from the third floor’s balcony of Quynh Coi High School in the northern province of Thai Binh while he was playing on a phone on Sunday.

-- High tide in Ho Chi Minh City reached 1.65-1.67 meters on Sunday evening, resulting in serious flooding on multiple roads and in neighborhoods.

-- People in Binh Thuan's Phan Thiet City have been banned from going outdoors from 7:00 pm to 5:00 am the next day from Sunday as part of the city’s movement restrictions to reduce surging COVID-19 infections.

-- The Ministry of Public Security has arrested and initiated legal proceedings against Nguyen Minh Quan, director of Thu Duc City Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City, and Nguyen Van Loi, director of Nguyen Tam Production Service Trading Co. Ltd., for manipulating bidding results to win a contract for purchasing medical equipment.

Lifestyle

-- Residents of Duong Lam Village in Son Tay Town, Hanoi have been upset as a film making crew painted on a national heritage ancient well for their shots.

Education

-- Dong Nai Province began vaccinating children aged 15 to 17 against COVID-19 on Sunday, in an effort to reach herd immunity and reopen schools early.

World News

-- Australia will begin administering booster shots of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine from Monday as millions in its largest city, Sydney, woke up to more freedom amid an accelerating immunisation drive against the coronavirus, according to Reuters.

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