Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A man caught a massive black carp weighing over 40 kilograms from an irrigation pond in Tan Ky District under the north-central Vietnamese province of Nghe An on Thursday evening. This has been the largest fish to be caught in the pond in three years.

-- Officers from the Ho Chi Minh City Firefighting and Rescue Police successfully rescued a 33-year-old woman trapped in a gap between two house walls with a width of 35 centimeters in District 10 on Friday. The woman fell from the fourth floor of a house while she was searching for her pet cat.

-- Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi admitted a 44-year-old woman who was in a comma and convulsions after drinking the water from a jar of pickled bamboo shoots on Friday.

-- A total of eight suspects of the recent armed attacks in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have turned themselves in to police in Krong Buk District so far, the Vietnam News Agency cited the police as saying on Friday.

Business

-- About 360 metric tons of durians grown in Vietnam’s southern province of Dong Nai were exported to China on Friday, marking the province’s first shipment of durians to China through official channels.

--The People’s Committee of Dong Thap Province in Mekong Delta region officially put the 700-bed Dong Thap general hospital into operation on Friday with an attempt to offer in-depth treatment services to local patients.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the second phase of a social housing project for workers in the new urban area in Nenh Town in Viet Yen District under Bac Giang Province, northern Vietnam on Friday. The project is set to cover 12.6 hectares of land and feature 16 20-storey apartment blocks with 7,000 units, at a total cost of some VND5 trillion (US$212.4 million).

-- The 19th international precision engineering and manufacturing reinvented exhibition and conference (MTA Vietnam) will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center (SECC) in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7 from July 4 to 7, featuring nearly 300 exhibitors.

Tourism

-- Some 4.6 million international tourists traveled to Vietnam in the first five months of 2023, a year-on-year surge of 12.6-fold, according to statistics from the General Statistics Office.

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