Read what is in the news today:

Society

-- Engineer Trinh Tan, chairman of the Vietnamese Association in North Morava and Ostrava, has been awarded the first-class order of national service of the Czech Republic. 

-- Police in northern Quang Ninh Province have coordinated with the Department of Cybersecurity and Hi-Tech Crime Prevention under the Ministry of Public Security to uncover an online gambling racket whose transactions totaled more than VND10 trillion (US$437.6 million).

-- Police in south-central Phu Yen Province announced on Tuesday the arrest of a 26-year-old local man for illegally possessing more than 15 guns and hundreds of bullets.

-- Police in Hanoi arrested two suspects in a bank robbery in Bac Tu Liem District on Tuesday. 

-- After many directors of Centers for Disease Control nationwide had been apprehended, one senior lieutenant colonel and one colonel were detained on Tuesday for their involvement in the COVID-19 test kit fraud of Viet A Technology Corporation.

Business

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh expressed his belief that Vietnam and the U.S. share mutual interests in climate change response and digital transformation, while addressing the U.S.-Vietnam Business Summit 2022 in Hanoi on Tuesday.

-- Representatives of South Korean companies revealed at a meeting on Tuesday that they wish to invest in building an industrial park with an area of 50 hectares and set up a service support center for foreign enterprises to facilitate their operations in southern Long An Province, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Lifestyle

-- The Travel, a vacation website, has listed Ha Long Bay in the northern coastal province of Quang Ninh and Cu Chi Tunnels in Ho Chi Minh City among the ten must-visit epic and adventurous places in Southeast Asia.

Sports

-- Vietnam is striving for 140 gold, 77 silver, and 71 bronze medals at the delayed 2021 Southeast Asian Games, to be hosted by the country this May.

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