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Society

-- A flight carried 210 tourists from Kazakhstan to Phu Quoc Island off Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam on Monday, said director of the provincial Department of Tourism Bui Quoc Thai.

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urged Vietnamese citizens in areas affected by the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas in the Middle East to register their information at the address: http://bit.ly/dangkycongdanVNtaiIsrael to receive information about citizen protection and support.

-- A landslide occurred in an alley in Da Lat, a tourist city in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, following a heavy rain on Monday. The incident caused no casualties but damaged a car.

-- The traffic police unit under the Department of Public Security in Binh Duong Province, neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, said on Monday that they were verifying videos in which three youngsters were shown wearing no helmets and doing a wheelie while riding a motorbike in both Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Thousands of vehicles were stuck in traffic for several kilometers along a National Highway 1 section in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City on Monday evening.

Business

-- Vietnamese airline Bamboo Airways has appointed Luong Hoai Nam, former CEO of Pacific Airlines, another domestic air carrier, as its new CEO. Nam is the third CEO of the airline within the past six months.

-- Vietnamese carrier Vietravel Airlines on Monday announced that Vietnamese-born Philipp Rösler, former vice-chancellor of Germany, is now its advisor and an independent member of its director board for a term until 2027. He will support the airline in expanding international cooperation, especially with investors and partners in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

World News

-- “Governments should open a new front in the international clampdown on tax evasion with a global minimum tax on billionaires, which could raise $250 billion annually,” Reuters reported, citing the EU Tax Observatory.

-- “The moon is about 40 million years older than previously thought - forming more than 4.46 billion years ago, within 110 million years after the solar system's birth,” Reuters cited scientists who made the conclusion on Monday, based on analyses of the crystals collected by U.S. astronauts Harrison Schmitt and Eugene Cernan during the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 - the last time people walked on the moon.

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