Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- The Vietnamese Politburo has named Nguyen Van Hieu, deputy secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, as secretary of the Party Committee of the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho in the 2020-25 tenure.

Society

-- A four-year-old girl accelerated a motorbike stopped by her mother, causing the vehicle to slam into a fence, killing herself, her one-year-old brother and her grandmother, and injuring her mother in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam.

-- The Ministry of Health has been working on a plan to establish three to six centers for storing 15-20 kinds of medicines with limited supplies, including botulism antitoxins, said Le Viet Dung, deputy head of the ministry's Drug Administration of Vietnam.

-- Police in central Quang Ngai Province are looking for a man who was accused of hanging his four-year-old son on Saturday following a conflict with his wife.

-- Children's Hospital 1 in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday opened a pediatric surgery center and a neonatal care center, aiming to become a pediatric medical hub in Southeast Asia.

-- An 86-year-old woman and her 47-year-old daughter were found dead at their house in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam on Saturday. The mother was deemed to die one month ago.

Business

-- A mere 20 percent of Vietnam's agricultural products are eligible for export to other markets, Ha Thuy Hanh, deputy director of the National Agricultural Extension Center, said at an event held in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.

Lifestyle

-- Authorities in the northern province of Ninh Binh on Saturday kicked off the 2023 Ninh Binh tourism week themed 'The Golden Color of Tam Coc - Trang An' in Hoa Lu District with the participation of 20,000 visitors.

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