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Politics

-- U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Evans Knapper visited the National Road 9 Martyrs' Cemetery in Quang Tri, central Vietnam, for the first time during a working trip on Wednesday.

Society

 -- Doctors from Hue Central Hospital said on Wednesday that they had successfully treated a five-year-old patient who had neuroblastoma, a rare type of cancer that forms in nerve cells, using the stem cell transplantation technique.

-- Police in Ca Mau Province, southernmost Vietnam, arrested a 24-year-old man for stabbing another man to death over conflict during a party last weekend.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport announced a detailed plan of rerouting traffic on several streets in District 1 on Wednesday in order to remodel the area in front of Ben Thanh Market.

-- Workers are rushing to wrap up preparations for the Lunar New Year (Tet) flower festival at Tao Dan Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City as the opening day is nearing.

-- Doctors from Thanh Hoa Children's Hospital, north-central Vietnam, said on Wednesday that they had successfully treated pneumothorax, which occurs when air leaks into the area between the lung and the chest wall, at a 13-month-old baby for the first time.

World News

-- “Illinois has banned the sale of many common kinds of semiautomatic guns with immediate effect in response to a massacre at an Independence Day parade in Highland Park last year and other mass shootings,” Reuters reported on Wednesday.

-- “Aides to U.S. President Joe Biden have discovered at least one more batch of classified documents in a location separate from a think tank office he used after serving as vice president, news outlets reported on Wednesday, citing unnamed sources,” Reuters reported.

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