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Politics

-- Ho Chi Minh City has attached great importance to and highly evaluated the good relationship between Vietnam and Japan and always defined its important role in enhancing the two countries’ bilateral ties, a municipal official has said, according to the Vietnam News Agency on Friday.

-- A ceremony marking the 50 years bilateral relationship between Vietnam and Australia was held on Friday morning at the Saigon Opera House in Ho Chi Minh City.

Society

-- The Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City has sent a dispatch to the directors of health departments in 20 southern provinces and cities, urging them to strengthen surveillance of severe pneumonia caused by the H5N1 flu, after Prey Veng Province in Cambodia, which borders Vietnam, recorded two positive cases.

-- Police in Thanh Hoa Province, northern Vietnam arrested on Friday eight suspects who had been found stealing underground cables, causing damage of billions of dong. (VND1 billion = US$42,025)

-- Police in Buon Ma Thuot City, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam’s Central Highlands said on Friday that they are searching for the vice-president of a bank who has gone missing for three months after he caused a traffic accident with a sleeper bus last year.

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Health on Friday proposed to the government solutions to the scarcity of medical supplies and equipment at hospitals across the country.

-- Police in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam said on Friday that they had arrested a suspect who broke into a karaoke parlor and murdered a staff member over a conflict last week.

World News

-- Ukrainians paid tribute to fallen loved ones on Friday and vowed to fight on to victory, while Russia said its forces were making gains in battle in the east as its invasion entered a second year with no end in sight, Reuters reported.

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