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Politics

-- Vietnam's Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and State President Vo Van Thuong have congratulated Xi Jinping on his re-election as China’s President for the third time.

Society

-- Authorities in Nam Dinh Province, northern Vietnam have initiated legal proceedings against  a woman for murdering her two children by drowning them into a local river earlier this week.

-- Police in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam said on Friday that they had successfully rescued a boy from his abductor, who was taking hostages to collect a debt.

-- Health authorities in Ho Chi Minh City said on Friday that they had suspended the operation of an unlicensed beauty salon for causing injuries to a customer who underwent eyelid surgery.

Business

-- “Startup-focused lender SVB Financial Group became the largest bank failure since the financial crisis on Friday, in a sudden collapse that roiled global markets and stranded billions of dollars belonging to companies and investors,” according to Reuters.

Lifestyle

-- Actors Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, and congressman Dean Phillips toured Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi on Friday afternoon as part of a trip to Vietnam.

World News

-- “Canada on Friday banned the import of all Russian aluminum and steel products in a move that Ottawa said was aimed at denying Moscow the ability to fund its war against Ukraine,” Reuters reported.

-- “A gunman in Germany shot dead six people before killing himself at a Jehovah's Witness worship hall in Hamburg, authorities said on Friday, in an attack that is bound to renew calls for stricter gun controls,” according to Reuters.

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