Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen received visiting Secretary of the Party Committee of China’s Hainan Province Shen Xiaoming in the southern Vietnamese metropolis on Tuesday.

Society

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have plans to install more security cameras to fight sidewalk encroachment.

-- A fire broke out from some electrical wires and telecommunication cables installed along the Dien Bien Phu 1 Bridge in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City at around 3:45 pm on Tuesday and was quickly put out. Authorities have reported no damage.

-- The pair of Mong Cai-Dongxing International Border Gate in Vietnam’s Quang Ninh Province and China’s Guangxi Province, respectively, resumed normal activities on Tuesday after being suspended for almost three years due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

-- The People’s Procuracy of northern Tuyen Quang Province has prosecuted a 30-year-old woman for helping her 51-year-old partner rape her nine-year-old daughter. The partner has also been indicted.

-- The problem that the SMW3 cable, the last fully functional Internet cable of Vietnam, encountered on Tuesday morning was fixed on the same morning, an Internet service provider in the country said. 

-- Researchers have uncovered a 2,000-year-old stringed musical instrument, one of the earliest examples of this type of instrument in Southeast Asia, in southern Vietnam. The discovery was published Tuesday in the peer-reviewed archeology journal Antiquity.

Business

-- Vietnam exported more than 359,000 tonnes of rice, bringing in more than US$186 million in January, down 29 percent in volume and 24.2 percent in value from the same period last year, according to statistics of the General Department of Customs.

-- Eight cruise ships will call at Nha Trang City in south-central Khanh Hoa Province from now to June with two cruise ships expected in the remainder of this month alone, according to a representative of Viet Excursions Company. Ltd. on Tuesday afternoon.

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