Read what is in the news today:

Politics

-- French Ambassador to Vietnam Nicolas Warnery announced at a press conference on Tuesday the organization of the ‘Hue by Light & Heritage’ artistic light show at the Hue Citadel in central Thua Thien-Hue Province at the end of this year. This is one of the activities to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Vietnam-France diplomatic relations.

Society

-- The Cam Ly garbage dump, where all of Da Lat City’s waste is collected, was quietly burning for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, causing toxic smoke to drift into the center of the capital city of Lam Dong Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. The operator of the landfill has neither found a solution to the problem and nor accurately determined the cause of the fire.

-- A special education center located in the northern province of Bac Ninh has been temporarily shut down by authorities following the circulation of a video on social media showing two staff members physically restraining a student and pinching his nose to make him eat.

-- A 53-year-old man who suffered a shattered left thigh, lost his penis, and had his colon completely ruptured, has been saved after undergoing 11 surgeries and spending 112 days at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- A court in southern Tien Giang Province sentenced a 37-year-old man to five years in prison on Tuesday for sexually abusing his 15-year-old niece.

-- An Giang University in the namesake province, located in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, has successfully grown ice plants, which originated from Japan, in the school’s greenhouse after 10 years of research. The plant is beneficial in the context of climate change and saltwater intrusion in the Mekong Delta region because it has a high nutrient content, can withstand saltwater, and can also absorb salt from the soil, according to rector Vo Van Thang.

-- A bus crashed into an eatery on Doi Can Street in Hanoi on Tuesday morning, causing two people to be injured and rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.

World news

-- Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it would cut 10,000 jobs, just four months after it let go 11,000 employees, the first Big Tech company to announce a second round of mass layoffs, Reuters reported.

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