Read what is in the news today:

Society

-- Many commuters were stranded on the streets in Hanoi until midnight on Tuesday as an unusually heavy downpour inundated many roads and caused a traffic nightmare.

-- Four people have remained missing after a flash flood triggered by a heavy rain swept them away in Bao Lam District, northern Cao Bang Province on Tuesday afternoon.

-- A 20-year-old Vietnamese man holding a kitchen knife he had just borrowed from a friend to cut duck meat was suppressed by police in South Korea’s Gwangju City, Chosun Ilbo reported on Tuesday. The incident sparked a controversy over discrimination against foreigners in the East Asian country.

-- The People’s Court of north-central Ha Tinh Province on Tuesday gave the death sentence to two men convicted of transporting nearly four kilograms of drugs.

-- A drunken man was narrowly saved from being run over by a train as he tried to run across a level crossing in southern Dong Nai Province on Tuesday night.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment has set a target that at least 80 percent of waste in the city will be recycled and burned to generate electricity by 2025.

Business

-- The pharmaceutical market in Vietnam is estimated to reach US$6.2-6.4 billion this year, Le Ngoc Danh, deputy head of the pharmacy department under the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, said at a conference on Tuesday.

Education

-- More than one million candidates are expected to be present at 2,243 examination sites across Vietnam to complete paperwork and learn about the rules of the 2022 national high school graduation exam on Wednesday.

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