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Society

-- The 10-year-old boy who fell into a 35-meter-deep hollow concrete pile in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap has passed away, local authorities said on Wednesday night.

-- A new Omicron sub-variant named XBB, believed to be fast-spreading and capable of evading immune responses, has been detected in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City are investigating suspected infractions at an automotive registration center in Nha Be District as its director was found illiterate on Wednesday.

-- A 30-year-old woman from Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam was taken to the hospital for emergency care after getting injections of cosmetic fillers into her buttocks and experiencing severe reactions and tissue necrosis earlier this week.

-- Police in Binh Duong Province, southern Vietnam arrested six suspects to facilitate their investigation into a case where a 16-year-old girl was sold to a human trafficking ring on Wednesday.

-- Doctors at Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi said on Wednesday that they had successfully saved a patient who was suffering from multi-organ failure as a result of overusing corticosteroids to treat the flu at home.

-- Twenty-nine men from Ha Tinh Province in north-central Vietnam were fined VND11 million (US$467) each for disobeying the order to undergo a medical checkup for military service in 2023, local authorities said on Wednesday.

Lifestyle

-- The Can Tho administration, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, has decided to hold a series of fireworks displays at four venues across the city to ring in the 2023 Lunar New Year.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City issued a decision to establish the Ho Chi Minh City Culinary Association on Wednesday in order to coordinate the local gastronomy industry to promote food culture in the metropolis and throughout Vietnam.

World News

-- “Emergency crews braced for the next bout of high winds and torrential rains forecast to sweep California starting on Wednesday, renewing the threat of power outages and flooding that struck parts of the state over the New Year's weekend,” Reuters reported.

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