Read what is in the new in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Vo Van Thuong will lead a Vietnamese delegation to attend the coronation of King Charles III of the United Kingdom from May 4 to 6 at the invitation of the British royal family.

-- Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Xavier Bettel will pay an official visit to Vietnam from May 3 to 5 at the invitation of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Society

-- Firefighters used ladder trucks to rescue 19 people trapped in a fire at Nguyen Kim apartment building in District 10, Ho Chi Minh City and guided 150 others to safety on Friday night.

-- Thousands of commuters congested roads connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the Mekong Delta on Friday, as they headed home for a five-day holiday break celebrating Hung Kings Commemoration Day, Reunification Day (April 30), and International Workers’ Day (May 1).

Business

-- International En Vang JSC signed a memorandum on the purchase and lease of VinFast electric cars with Green and Smart Mobility Joint Stock Company (GSM), a subsidiary of Vietnamese multi-sector conglomerate Vingroup, on Friday to launch an electric taxi service in northern Hai Phong City.

Lifestyle

-- Thousands of visitors attended the opening ceremony of the 2023 Mango Festival in Cao Lanh City of Dong Thap Province, southern Vietnam on Friday evening.

-- The Department of Tourism of Hanoi announced on Friday free service for all visitors taking the city’s popular double-decker bus tour during the ongoing five-day holiday break.

-- The Hue Traditional Craft Festival 2023 opened in central Thua Thien-Hue Province on Friday evening.

-- The Southern Folk Cake Festival 2023 began in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Friday evening.

-- Relevant units announced on Friday that they completed displaying a giant sculpture gifted by Namyangju City in the northwest South Korean province of Gyeonggi in Hue City of Thua Thien-Hue. The statue was presented in 2019 in honor of the friendship and cooperation established between the two cities but it only arrived in the Vietnamese side recently.

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