Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Authorities in southern Kien Giang Province have temporarily closed a park after six crocodiles escaped from it due to degraded cages on Tuesday. Some 30 people, including employees of the park, local officials, and rangers have been detached to search for the crocodiles, a local official said on Saturday.

-- The last sections of My Thuan 2 Bridge, connecting the southern provinces of Tien Giang and Vinh Long, were connected on Saturday in the presence of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh. The project carries a price tag of some VND5 trillion (US$204.5 million).

-- The administration in District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City has proposed revitalizing the iconic Ben Thanh Market, including replacing its current tile effect roofing sheets with roof tiles, District 1 vice-chairman Vu Nguyen Quang Vinh said at a meeting on Saturday..

-- The People’s Committee of Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam on Saturday worked with representatives of local tourism firms, airlines, and the Phu Quoc Investment Tourism Development Association to discuss solutions for boosting tourism in Phu Quoc City in the coming time amid a significant decline in the number of visitors to the island.

-- Relevant agencies in Ho Chi Minh City have a plan to increase the roughness of Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street and a section of Le Thanh Ton Street, which were paved with granite in 2015, in District 1 to ensure traffic safety on these routes.

-- A 50-year-old man from Dong Nai Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, on Saturday set himself and a 54-year-old woman on fire with gasoline, killing himself and injuring the woman, over a love conflict.

Lifestyle

-- Do Thi Lan Anh, a beauty from Hanoi, was crowned Miss Earth Vietnam 2023 after beating out 29 other contestants in the pageant finale held in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening. She will represent Vietnam to compete at the Miss Earth 2023, slated for December this year in Vietnam.

World News

-- “French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday deployed up to 7,000 soldiers for increased security patrols, as bomb alerts forced the evacuation of the Louvre museum a day after a teacher was killed in an Islamist attack,” Reuters reported.

-- “Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens on Saturday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, momentarily producing the appearance of a "ring of fire" in the sky,” according to Reuters.

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