Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Hanoi-based Tam Anh General Hospital and AstraZeneca Vietnam Company signed a memorandum of understanding on clinical trials of non-communicable diseases and training of health workers on Tuesday.

-- OT Motor Vina Co. Ltd in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam has suspended a South Korean manager for a month for the investigation into his assault on a Vietnamese employee that resulted in her hospitalization, a local labor union official said on Tuesday afternoon.

-- Police in Lam Dong Province, located in the Central Highlands region, said on Tuesday that they had found a South Korean tourist two hours after he got lost on Lang Biang Mountain the day before.

-- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) treated and handed over nearly three million hectares of dioxin-polluted land in the southwest area of Bien Hoa Airbase, the most contaminated spot in Vietnam, to Dong Nai Province on Tuesday.

-- Police in Binh Duong Province, southern Vietnam fined a man VND3.75 million (US$158) on Tuesday for faking a bouquet as a gift sent from a Party and state leader to his newly-opened café.

-- The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has put on the table a plan to invest over VND9.99 trillion ($422.4 million) in expanding a section of National Highway 13 from four lanes to eight in 2025.

Sports

-- Vietnam left the 2023 AFC U20 Asian Cup in Uzbekistan after losing 1-3 to Iran in their last group-stage game on Tuesday afternoon.

-- Vietnam kicked off their 2024 AFC U20 Women’s Asian Cup Qualifiers Round 1 campaign with an emphatic 3-0 victory over Indonesia in Phu Tho, a northern Vietnamese province, on Tuesday evening.

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