Check out the news you should not miss today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh asked France to facilitate access to the French market by Vietnamese goods, especially agricultural and fishery ones, at his reception for French Minister for Foreign Trade, Attractiveness, and French Nationals Abroad Olivier Becht on Wednesday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- The Ministry of Public Security has begun to issue e-passports containing microchips for Vietnamese citizens from Wednesday.

-- Two children died and two women were injured after a truck collided with their motorcycle in Binh Duong Province, southern Vietnam on Wednesday, according to local police.

-- A man from Binh Duong Province, southern Vietnam was rushed to hospital on Wednesday with severe bleeding on his fingers caused by his family, who believed it would alleviate his hemiplegia symptoms.

-- Police in Dak Lak Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, broke up a gambling ring whose transactions had accumulated VND250 billion (US$10.5 million) and detained 10 suspects on Wednesday.

-- Police in Ca Mau Province, southern Vietnam are investigating a case in which a first grader was severely beaten by her stepmother, resulting in numerous bruises.

-- The official dates for the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival in 2023 are June 3 through July 8, according to a statement made on Wednesday by the Da Nang City People's Committee.

-- The Seven Seas Explorer, carrying 637 passengers, arrived in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam on Wednesday, making it the first cruise ship to visit the province in 2023.

World News

-- “The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on Wednesday along party lines to give President Joe Biden the power to ban Chinese-owned TikTok, in what would be the most far-reaching U.S. restriction on any social media app,” Reuters reported on Wednesday.

-- “Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis called it an unspeakable tragedy but questions are being asked whether the fatal collision of passenger and freight trains on Tuesday night could have been prevented,” according to Reuters on Wednesday.

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