Check out the news you should not miss today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and a high-ranking delegation commenced a three-day official visit to Indonesia after arriving in Jakarta on Wednesday.

-- During a reception in Hanoi on Wednesday for Governor of Tochigi Prefecture Tomikazu Fukuda, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said the potential for cooperation between Japan’s Tochigi Prefecture and Vietnamese localities remains huge as they have supplementary strengths, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- Police in Dong Thap Province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, on Friday arrested and initiated legal proceedings against a 54-year-old man for raping a 10-year-old girl earlier this month.

-- The People’s Court in Da Nang City on Wednesday sentenced two men to a total of 16 years in prison for smuggling 200 iPhones from Hong Kong that were valued at more than VND3 billion (US$126,449).

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday apprehended a gang that illegally trapped and forced underage girls to work as sex workers at local karaoke and massage parlors.

-- A serial traffic accident between a truck and multiple large vehicles on a section of National Highway 14 passing through Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam killed one person on the spot and injured several others on Wednesday afternoon.

-- A former chief accountant at a land fund development center in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam was arrested on Thursday for embezzling about VND27 billion ($1.1 million) since October.

Lifestyle

-- Nguyen Thuong Hien Street Food Street in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City was officially put into operation on Wednesday night, attracting a large number of both local and international visitors. 

World News

-- “A U.S. couple detained in Uganda on charges of aggravated torture of a 10-year-old boy face an additional charge of aggravated child trafficking which carries the death penalty if they are convicted,” Reuters reported on Wednesday.

-- “Berlin has sent its first batch of BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines to China to be administered initially to German expatriates, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday, the first foreign coronavirus vaccine to be delivered to the country,” according to Reuters.

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