Here are today’s leading news stories:

COVID-19 Updates 

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health documented 705 COVID-19 cases and one pathogen-related mortality on Saturday, raising the country’s tally to 10,759,850, with 9,806,328 and 43,091 deaths.

Society

-- Police in southern Dong Nai Province confirmed on Saturday they had arrested a hit-and-run tanker truck driver after he had fatally hit a motorcyclist earlier the same day.

-- Doctors in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have saved a 28-year-old street performer after he had seriously injured his stomach during a glass eating performance.

-- More than 1,000 people participated in a fire drill organized at a company in Dong Nai Province on Saturday. The drill was organized by the Ministry of Public Security and the Dong Nai People’s Committee.

-- A woman from the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has been fined VND4 million (US$170) and had her driver’s license revoked for two months for letting a young boy sit on top of her car while they were traveling on a street earlier this week.

-- Police in north-central Thanh Hoa Province confirmed on Saturday they had arrested a 33-year-old inmate who had broken out of prison in northern Ha Giang Province on July 9. 

Business

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the inauguration of the $2 billion Song Hau 1 Thermal Power Plant in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang on Saturday.

Lifestyle

-- Nong Thuy Hang, a 23-year-old beauty of the Tay ethnic minority in northern Ha Giang Province, was crowned Miss Ethnic Vietnam 2022 during the pageant’s finale in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening.

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