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Politics

-- Vietnam treasures and wishes to boost its relationship with the European Union, a leading important partner in Vietnam's foreign policy, the Vietnam News Agency cited Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue as saying during his reception in Hanoi on Monday for the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Countries of Southeast Asia and ASEAN.

Society

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport on Monday fined two taxi operators and several taxi drivers for committing taxi fare scams to overcharge customers at Tan Son Nhat International Airport by up to 10 times over the firms’ service prices, following an investigation of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters.

-- The administration of Binh Duong Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, will hold a ground-breaking ceremony for a Ring Road No. 3 section in its precinct on June 28, the investor of the project informed.

-- Police in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam on Monday said that they had apprehended a 58-year-old female fugitive who had managed to elude a police arrest warrant for 28 years.

-- A 32-year-old man had smashed properties and beat his parents before being stabbed to death by his father due to a conflict over property partition in Tien Giang Province, southern Vietnam, local police said on Monday.

-- Hospitals in Mekong Delta provinces are concerned over the shortage of drugs for hand, foot, and mouth disease cases while the number of patients is rising at an alarming rate.

World News

-- A man wielding an axe entered three Chinese restaurants on Monday night in New Zealand’s largest city Auckland, sending four people to hospital, Reuters reported, citing authorities and local media.

-- U.S. and Canadian ships and planes searched on Monday for a submarine that went missing more than a day earlier off the coast of southeastern Canada while taking tourists to explore the wreckage of the Titanic, according to Reuters.

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