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Politics

-- Tran Sy Thanh, deputy secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, has been elected as chairman of the municipal People’s Committee for the remaining time of the 2016-21 tenure.

Society

-- Local law enforcement officers are investigating a case in which a woman’s body was found decapitated at her restaurant in northern Hai Phong City on Friday afternoon. According to the preliminary investigation, the suspect murdered the woman over love conflicts and then committed suicide later the same day.

-- Police in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang on Friday arrested and initiated legal proceedings against a 37-year-old man after a circulated video showed him repeatedly beating his son to the point of bleeding.

-- Vietnam Expressway Investment and Development Corporation on Friday inaugurated a non-stop electronic toll collection (ETC) system on Cau Gie - Ninh Binh Expressway that will begin operating on August 1.

-- The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) launched an investigation into a TikTok video in which a woman is seen posing for social media content while sitting on a baggage carousel at Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

-- Doctors from Thanh Vu Hospital Medic Bac Lieu in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta said on Friday that they had successfully resuscitated a female patient who suffered three bouts of cardiac arrest and apnea due to cardiovascular disease.

-- Police in northern Hai Phong City on Friday arrested a 38-year-old man for stabbing a commuter to death after a slight collision between their vehicles.

World News

-- “The main mountain border pass between Chile and Argentina reopened this week after a heavy snowfall in the Andes forced it to shutter for about two weeks, stranding thousands of trucks,” Reuters reported on Friday.

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