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Society

-- A bus driver and his assistant in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam handed over VND190 million ($8,076) in cash, which was dropped on the street by a car driver, to the local police on Friday afternoon.

-- Police in Binh Duong Province, southern Vietnam, announced on Friday that they had detained and prosecuted a female director of a property firm for her alleged involvement in land sale scams and illegal drug use, while she was on the run from the police.

-- The walkways and some facilities of the Tram Huong Tower in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam are under repair to ensure the safety of people, after a tourist fell to her death last Saturday while climbing the stairs of the tower to take photos, confirmed a local official on Friday.

-- Police in Danang City, central Vietnam on Friday night arrested Le Phu Cao, a native of neighboring Thua Thien Hue Province, for allegedly committing an armed robbery in Hai Chau District on Thursday and snatching over VND600 million ($25,545).

Business

-- The fuel retail prices in Vietnam were adjusted down by VND250-750 ($0.01-0.03) per liter or kilogram starting from 5:00 pm on Friday, according to an announcement jointly released by the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Czech counterpart Czech Petr Fiala at a meeting in Vietnam on Friday mulled over a plan launching a direct air service linking the two countries to promote investment, tourism and the exchange of people.

-- Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City in the first quarter this year surpassed $2.1 billion, up over 19 percent against the same period last year and equivalent to roughly 32 percent of the 2022 figure, said Nguyen Duc Lenh, deputy director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s branch in the southern metropolis.

World News

-- Gunmen stormed a homestead in a township outside the South African city of Pietermaritzburg and ambushed a family, killing 10 people, police said on Friday, Reuters reports.

-- Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo surrendered to U.S. authorities on Friday, a U.S. Marshals Service official told Reuters, a day after his last-ditch bid to block his extradition to Peru over corruption charges was denied.

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