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Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on Wednesday for newly-appointed UN Resident Coordinator in Vietnam Pauline Tamesis, who came to present the UN Secretary-General's credentials, beginning her term in the country, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Police in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh on Wednesday arrested and initiated legal proceedings against the former director of a local people’s credit fund for embezzling nearly VND1 billion (US$42,747) five years ago.

-- Some 300 residents in the north-central province of Nghe An on Wednesday gathered to object to a construction project that would close an old route running through an industrial park, injuring five local police officers.

-- The People’s Court in Dak Nong Province on Wednesday sentenced six people to death due to a series of drug-related crimes.

-- A motorbike taxi driver was severely stabbed and had his motorcycle stolen on Tuesday, according to police in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh.

-- A Vietnamese woman whose breasts have been growing uncontrollably since puberty, causing her spine to deform and herniate, recently completed a successful operation to lower their size, according to doctors at Vietnam German Friendship Hospital in Hanoi.

-- A blaze suddenly broke out at a popular three-story club in Hai Phong, northern Vietnam on Wednesday afternoon and lasted until the evening, causing damage estimated at billions of dong. (VND1 billion = $42,747)

-- The ongoing tropical depression in the East Vietnam Sea has caused 32 houses to collapse, damaged 165 others, and flooded 465.5 hectares of rice paddy and 1,050 hectares of crops, with initial losses estimated at VND4 billion ($170,991), in Kien Giang Province for the last five days.

World News

-- “Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled to the Maldives on Wednesday, driven out after an economic collapse unleashed a popular uprising that appeared to end his family's near two-decade dominance of the country,” Reuters reported.

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