Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Business

-- Vietnam exported US$24.56 billion worth of agro-forestry-fishery products in the first half of this year, up 12 percent against the same period last year, according to statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

-- The transport authority of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed a project to build two intersections linking the under-construction Ben Luc-Long Thanh expressway, which connects Dong Nai Province with Long An Province, with roads in the city.

-- The One Commune One Product program of Ho Chi Minh City in 2023 will feature products in six more sectors, such as food and beverages, herbs, fabrics and apparel, souvenirs-furniture-decoration, and community tourism services and tourist attractions, said a municipal official on Friday.

-- Fishing boats of less than 12 meters in length in southern Kien Giang Province are banned from catching several types of clams such as blood clams, silk clams, and basket clams in local coastal areas from Saturday to the end of the year, as part of the province’s ongoing efforts to protect and develop aquatic resources.

Politics

– A Ho Chi Minh City high-ranking delegation led by the municipal Party chief Nguyen Van Nen attended a ceremony held in the Russian city of St. Petersburg on Friday to inaugurate the statue of Vietnam's late President Ho Chi Minh.

Society

-- Phan Minh Tan, former director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology and lecturer at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, has been indicted for violating regulations on the management and use of public investment capital, causing serious consequences.

-- A downpour on Friday afternoon left many inner-city streets in Bien Hoa City of southern Dong Nai Province heavily flooded, worsening traffic gridlock and forcing local household businesses located along submerged streets to shut down.

World News

-- France deployed 45,000 police officers and some armored vehicles on the streets on Saturday as riots rocked French cities for a fourth night over a teenager's fatal shooting by an officer during a traffic stop, Reuters reported.

-- Half of the U.S. population was urged on Friday to take precautions when they are outdoors, either due to a relentless heat wave or poor air quality caused by Canadian wildfires ahead of the long Fourth of July weekend, according to Reuters.​

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