Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Police in Da Lat City, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, caught two young men red-handed distributing leaflets advertising pornographic services in the city center with the intention of deceiving people online and illicitly appropriating their assets on Tuesday.

-- Authorities in Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam recently discovered an enterprise that unlawfully cleared a hectare of local casuarina forests to construct a complex of apartments, hotels, and other commercial service facilities, without obtaining the necessary authorization.

-- Caterpillar populations have undergone proliferation, leading to the destruction of over 2,000 hectares of pine forests in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam, a forest protection official said on Tuesday.

-- The Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children in Da Nang City announced on Tuesday that they were providing medical attention to a two-year-old patient who suffered from significant burns after accidentally consuming a toilet cleaning solution.

-- Police in U Minh Thuong District, Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam on Tuesday reported that they exerted criminal detention against two local men, who illegally hunted purple herons, little egrets, great cormorants, and endangered darters.

Business

-- Shares in Vietnamese electric vehicle maker VinFast surged on their Nasdaq debut on Tuesday amid limited trading after the company closed its merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) in Asia’s biggest M&A deal this year, Reuters reported.

-- The 17th Ho Chi Minh City International Travel Expo (ITE HCMC 2023), scheduled for September 7 to 9, is expected to witness a two-fold increase in exhibition and booth space compared to 2022 thanks to the enactment of Vietnam’s amended visa policy, Le Truong Hien Hoa, deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said at the event’s press conference held on Tuesday.

-- Vietnamese start-up companies secured cumulative funding of US$413 million in the second quarter of this year, according to DealStreetAsia.

Sports

-- Hoang Anh Gia Lai Football Club held a commemorative ceremony at Hoang Anh Gia Lai Hospital, located in Pleiku City within Gia Lai Province, on Tuesday evening to pay tribute to Paollo Medeira Oliveira, a Brazilian-Portuguese striker who tragically lost his life in a recent traffic accident.

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