Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A bus slammed into a Petrolimex filling station in Dong Anh District, Hanoi, resulting in a fiery ignition and causing slight heat damage to a nearby petrol pump on Tuesday evening.

-- A new species of crocodile newt from the Central Highlands of Vietnam has been described in the open access journal ZooKeys.

-- The People’s Council of Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon passed a resolution approving the addition of 52 newly-named streets and the adjustment of the lengths of two existing streets in 15 districts of the Vietnamese capital city.

-- Two aircraft at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi and one at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City have had punctured tires over the past seven days, according to airport authorities.

-- Vietnam reported 72,000 workers employed abroad in the first half of 2023, according to the Department of Overseas Labor under the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs.  

Business

-- Data recently released by the Ho Chi Minh City branch of the State Bank of Vietnam indicates that credit expansion hit a modest 3.5 percent in the first half of this year, or a-third of last year’s figure. 

Lifestyle

-- Swiss watchmaker Christophe Claret on Tuesday issued a correction to validate the authenticity of Vietnamese painter Xuan Lam’s artwork, based on which the company had Spanish artist André Martinez create the meticulously-crafted miniature painting featured on a watch model released in May, after plagiarism allegations arose last month.

-- Vietnamese movie 'Sesame Has Its Soul' earned the TAICCA Award granted by the Taiwan Creative Content Agency at the 16th Network of Asian Fantastic Films project market, which runs alongside South Korea’s ongoing Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival.

Education

-- Le Hong Phong High School for the Gifted in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday introduced a credit-based system that allows students to select their subjects based on their individual interests and aptitudes starting from the 2023-24 school year.

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