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Politics

--  Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha met with Speaker of the Japanese House of Representatives Hosoda Hiroyuki, Chairman of the Japan - Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Alliance Nikai Toshihiro, Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Nishimura Yasutoshi, and the parliamentarians in charge of environmental issues of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) in Tokyo on Friday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Leaders of Russia, North Korea, Japan, India, Mongolia, Italia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have extended their congratulations to Vo Van Thuong on his election as State President of Vietnam on Friday.

Society

-- Many parents were scammed recently by fraudulent phone callers who impersonated their children's teachers and asked them to deposit hospital fees by claiming their children had suffered a severe brain damage and required urgent surgery, according to Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

-- Police in Hanoi have arrested and initiated legal proceedings against two kindergarten teachers for assaulting a 17-month baby to death last month.

Lifestyle

-- Nguyen Thanh Ha, from Vietnam, was crowned Miss Eco International 2023 at the pageant’s finale in Egypt on Friday, becoming the first Vietnamese contestant to win the title.

-- The ninth Ho Chi Minh City Ao Dai Festival kicked off at Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in District 1 on Friday evening with the participation of many popular artists, beauty queens, athletes, and TV hosts.

World News

-- “Archaeologists say they have uncovered a "unique" cache of well-preserved spices, from strands of saffron to peppercorns and ginger, on the wreck of a royal ship that sank off Sweden's Baltic coast more than 500 years ago,” Reuters reported on Friday.

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