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Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday suggested China’s Hainan province enhance its exchange and cooperation with Vietnamese ministries, agencies and localities, particularly Ho Chi Minh City and the northern province of Quang Ninh, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Doctors from Thanh Vu Hospital Medic Bac Lieu in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta said on Wednesday that they had successfully treated a woman with a ruptured liver and intra-abdominal hemorrhage caused by the use of a slimming belt.

-- A man from Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam was sentenced to three years in prison on Wenesday for raping a tour guide while she was sleeping inside a bungalow last September.

-- Police in Nha Trang City, central Vietnam are looking into the death of a two-year-old boy who died unexpectedly while attending kindergarten.

-- Police in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam said on Wednesday that they had broken up a gambling ring for Vietnamese people at a hotel in the area and confiscated more than VND100 billion (US$4,2 million).

-- The rescue team of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) headed for home on Wednesday afternoon, concluding a mission to assist with the aftermath of an earthquake in Turkey.

World News

-- A major winter storm battered the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest with high winds and heavy snow on Wednesday, forcing hundreds of schools to close, grounding air travel and making road travel difficult - if not impossible - in some U.S. areas, according to Reuters.

-- “Foreign interference in elections is a very serious issue and Canada must be on guard against it," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday, following a media report saying that China sought to influence the outcome of the 2021 election, Reuters reported.

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