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Society

-- Police in Hai An District, Hai Phong City in northern Vietnam are hunting for a suspect who robbed a local bank with a gun look-alike on Friday afternoon.

--- Green International Hospital Joint Stock Company, an infirmary in Vietnam’s Hai Phong City that recently declined to give treatment to a pregnant woman as the patient tested positive for COVID-19, has been fined VND34 million (US$1,498) for its administrative violation.

-- Six out of eleven patients with the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in Ho Chi Minh City have been released from hospitals, according to local authorities.

-- The old and new versions of citizens’ identification cards are set to be completely integrated this year, enabling the e-identification of all people, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- The People’s Court in Hanoi on Friday condemned two men to death for murdering and robbing a 19-year-old woman in October 2020.

-- Thousands of employees at Pouchen, a sports shoe manufacturing company located in Binh Tan District, went on strike on Friday to demand higher year-end bonuses.

-- The Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu has allowed sit-down food and beverage services, spas, beauty salons, barbers, hairdressers to reopen on Saturday, after months of suspension due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

World News

-- A Georgia judge sentenced Travis McMichael and his father Gregory McMichael on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for what he called the "chilling" 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a black man running through their mostly white neighborhood in the southern U.S. state, Reuter reported.

-- COVID-19 hospitalizations in the United States are poised to hit a new high as early as Friday, according to a Reuters tally, surpassing the record set in January of last year as the highly contagious Omicron variant fuels a surge in the number of cases.

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