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Society
-- The National Highway No. 20 passing through the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Friday afternoon saw congested traffic for kilometers in hours after a fatal accident occurred between a passenger bus and a motorbike, killing one person and injuring another.
-- Commuters traveling through Hanoi’s Phap Van – Cau Gie Expressway tollgate toward the city of Hanoi met with congestion on Friday evening due to a spike in the number of people returning to the capital city after Tet holiday.
-- The number of passengers through Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City rose to a record of 97,700 on Friday, the Vietnam News Agency reported the Southern Airports Authority as saying.
Business
-- Tourism authorities in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam have set a target to welcome 9.5 million visitors in this lunar year, said Pham Ngoc Thuy, director of the provincial Department of Tourism.
-- Vietnam exported 287 tonnes of agricultural products to China via Kim Thanh Border Gate in the northern province of Lao Cai on the first three days of the Lunar New Year (February 1-3) festival, the Vietnam New Agency reported on Friday.
Lifestyle
-- Many people from Hanoi and the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Bac Ninh gravitated on Friday night to Yin Yang Market, or the Market of the Dead, in O Village in Bac Ninh, which opens only once a year on the fourth day of a lunar year and ends early the next morning.
-- Bac Ninh officials decided on Friday to close the Trinh and Ba Chua Kho temples in the province from Saturday to prevent the spread of COVID-19 after seeing a large number of people congregating at the place yesterday.
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