Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:
Society
-- Vietnam reports 200,000 stroke patients every year, while the number of stroke centers and divisions meets only one-third of the need for treatment in the country, said Mai Duy Ton, president of the Hanoi Stroke Association at a congress on Saturday in the Vietnamese capital.
-- Police in northern Phu Tho Province have launched a probe into the killing of a woman whose body was found amid many stones at a local pagoda on Saturday, an official confirmed the same day.
-- Three second graders drowned while bathing in a man-made reservoir after they herded buffalo in northern Lao Cai Province on Saturday morning, authorities confirmed the same day.
-- Around 30 big displacement motorcycles unlawfully entered the Bac Giang-Lang Son Expressway in northern Vietnam and disobeyed stop signals given by traffic police before running away on Saturday morning, with one of them hitting a police officer and leaving him injured.
-- Police in southern Binh Phuoc Province are investigating the death of a baby boy whose body was found in a plastic bag put some 20 meters away from the section of National Highway 14 in Chon Thanh Town.
Business
-- The administration of north-central Thanh Hoa Province is seeking to upgrade its Tho Xuan airport into an international one to be able to serve international visitors, especially those from South Korea, Japan, and Singapore, said a local official on Friday afternoon.
Sports
-- Vietnam won 11 gold and three silver medals at the first Asian and Asian Youth Shuttlecock Championships, which wrapped up in Hong Kong on Saturday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
World News
-- Hundreds of people are crammed into small white tents in the courtyard of a sports center in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, drying clothes on the access ramps and washing their children in small, plastic tubs, Reuters reported.
-- Soccer's world governing body FIFA suspended Spanish federation chief Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities for three months on Saturday as it investigates allegations he gave a player an unwanted kiss on the lips after Spain's women won the World Cup, according to Reuters.
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