Here are today’s leading news stories:
Politics
-- Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz and his high-ranking delegation met Ho Chi Minh City Party Secretary Nguyen Van Nen and chairman Phan Van Mai on Saturday, as part of his official friendship visit to Vietnam from Wednesday to Sunday.
COVID-19 Updates
-- The Ministry of Health documented 672 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, raising the national tally to 11,480,028, with 10,592,592 recoveries and 43,149 deaths.
Society
-- Multiple streets in Ho Chi Minh City were serious inundated due to a heavy rain late on Saturday afternoon.
-- Nearly 40,000 civil servants and public employees quit their jobs across Vietnam between 2020 and June 2022, Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nguyen Duy Thang said at a regular press meeting of the government on Saturday.
-- A woman and her 14-month-old child drowned after they were trapped inside the cabin of a fishing boat when it capsized during a rainstorm off northern Quang Ninh Province on Saturday.
-- A Japanese woman was found dead hanging inside her apartment in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday morning, police confirmed later the same day.
-- Illegal loggers took advantage of the influence of Storm Noru to chop down 165 pine trees, all of which were about 20 years old, in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, the provincial forest protection department said on Saturday.
-- The 70-year-old man from north-central Nghe An Province who was previously accused of impregnating a six-year-old girl was found dead hanging at his home after he was released on bail.
Lifestyle
-- Doan Thien An, a beauty from southern Long An Province, was crowned Miss Grand Vietnam 2022 after surpassing 49 other contestants at the pageant’s finale in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening.
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