Here are today’s leading news stories:

COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health documented 1,705 COVID-19 cases on Monday, raising the national tally to 11,349,223, with 9,982,345 recoveries and 43,094 deaths.

Society

-- The developer of the Trung Luong-My Thuan Expressway, a major expressway in southern Vietnam that was inaugurated in late April, began the electronic toll collection (ETC) on Tuesday.

-- A low-pressure area in the East Vietnam Sea developed into a tropical depression on Monday and is expected to become a storm over the next few days, while its direction remains unpredictable.

-- A 37-year-old man and his dog were killed after he lost control of his motorbike while carrying the pet and crashed into the road fencing in northern Thai Binh Province on Monday afternoon.

-- A man was stabbed to death following an argument over a money-related conflict with another person in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City early on Monday morning.

-- The Ministry of Health on Monday requested local authorities to correct medical facilities that advertised the treatment of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality.  

-- A 23-year-old man from northern Hai Duong Province has been given a nine-month flight ban after he failed to pay a fine for smoking on a plane in late June.

-- An inferno engulfed the electronic component factory of a Taiwanese company at Quang Minh Industrial Park in Me Linh District, Hanoi on Monday and was eventually put out after authorities mobilized 30 fire engines to the site.

-- Two police officers in Tieu Can District in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh have been probed on suspicion of fraud and property appropriation, the provincial Department of Public Security confirmed on Monday.

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