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COVID-19 Updates

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Health reported 3,591 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, raising the national tally to 11,392,859, with 10,104,180 recoveries and 43,110 deaths.

Politics

-- Vietnam's top leaders on Wednesday extended congratulations to their Ukrainian counterparts on the occasion of the European country’s Independence Day.

Society

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested a 24-year-old man on Wednesday for impersonating a female customer to order beauty products and then rape and rob the merchants twice this month when they delivered the goods.

-- The People’s Court of Hai Phong City in northern Vietnam on Wednesday handed down a life sentence to a 24-year-old man for robbing a bank branch of VND3 billion (US$128,000) with a gun in January.

-- The Dong Nai Province Department of Transport has asked the provincial People's Committee to seek approval from the prime minister for a plan on extending the Ben Thanh - Suoi Tien metro line to Bien Hoa 1 Industrial Park in the southern province.

Lifestyle

-- British photographer Tim Page, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the American war in Vietnam, died on Wednesday at his home in New South Wales, Australia at 78.

Education

-- The Can Tho City education authority will provide financial relief for students and their parents by waiving the tuition fee for the 2022-23 academic year in all K-12 facilities.

World News

-- “Canada is on track to exceed its immigration goal of granting permanent residency to more than 430,000 people in 2022, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said on Wednesday,” Reuters reported.

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