Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A wedding pavilion which was dozens of meters long was erected on a road parallel with Hanoi Highway, which sees a high volume of vehicles per day, in Thu Duc City under Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday, making many witnesses thunderstruck.

-- Police in Da Huoai District, Lam Dong Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region on Monday caught a man red-handed transporting a Javan pangolin, a rare species of anteater, weighing some 5.3 kilograms, the police said the same day.

-- A 35-year-old man committed suicide after setting his house on fire with gasoline, killing his one-year-old child and injuring his wife, mother-in-law, and three-year-old child in Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam on Sunday evening, the local authorities reported on Monday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has proposed developing a central station in Thu Thiem, Thu Duc City for the North - South express railway and Thu Thiem - Long Thanh railway, which was planned to pass through Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring Dong Nai Province,.

-- Police in Chau Thanh District, southern Tien Giang Province said on Monday that they had arrested two men for attempting to steal 24 iPhones and two Macbook Airs worth over VND700 million (US$28,736) at a local FPT Shop, a retail outlet owned by Vietnamese tech firm FPT. The two had earlier conducted six thefts at other FPT shops in Tien Giang, Long An, Tay Ninh, and Dong Nai Provinces as well as Ho Chi Minh City.

Sports

-- Dang Ha Viet, head of the Vietnamese sports delegation at the 19th Asian Games, also known as ASIAD 19, in China, has made an apology to sports fans nationwide as the delegation’s achievements at the tournament were much lower than expected. The Vietnamese delegation officially wrapped up ASIAD 19 with three golds, five silvers, and 19 bronzes, ranking sixth in Southeast Asia and 21st in Asia.

World News

-- “Harvard economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work exposing the causes of deeply rooted wage and labor market inequality between men and women,” Reuters cited the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as saying.

-- “Billions of people could struggle to survive in periods of deadly, humid heat within this century as temperatures rise, particularly in some of the world's largest cities, from Delhi to Shanghai,” Reuters quoted research published on Monday.

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