Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Four South Korean tourists died as they were swept away by floodwaters during a UAZ vehicle drive through a stream in Cu Lan village tourist area, located in Lac Duong District under the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Tuesday.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City announced on Tuesday that they busted an illegal kidney trading network responsible for 28 transactions, resulting in an illicit profit of VND12 billion (US$488,600).

-- Police in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City returned a stolen mobile phone worth about VND28 million ($1,140) to its owner, Sim Jun Young, a South Korean national, on Tuesday afternoon after apprehending the robber a day earlier.

-- A supermarket in Ho Chi Minh City has allowed each of its customers to purchase a maximum of only two boxes of a trendy custard cake per transaction due to the chaos it caused.

-- A woman who fell from a tree and was impaled by a sharp stake from the bottom up, with the wound extending from below the perineum to the abdomen and hips, recently underwent successful emergency surgery at Can Tho Central General Hospital in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho.

Business

-- Singapore on Tuesday announced conditional approval for Sembcorp Utilities to import 1.2 gigawatts of electricity from Vietnam, the city-state’s latest agreement to diversify its power sourcing and green generation portfolio 95 percent of which is now fuelled by gas, Reuters reported.

-- Remittances to Ho Chi Minh City between January and September topped $6.687 billion, a year-on-year increase of 40 percent and equal to 101.3 percent of the previous year.

Education

-- According to the school year plan for K-12 students in Ho Chi Minh City, they will have a 16-day break for the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday, from February 5 to February 18, 2024, inclusive of the weekends before and after the designated period.

World News

-- More than 500 miners in South Africa have remained underground for over 36 hours in a standoff between rival labor unions, AFP quoted police and workers’ representatives as saying on Tuesday.

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