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Business

-- Vietnam imported over 9,610 completely-built-up cars worth nearly US$255 million last month, up over 29 percent in volume and over 46 percent in value versus the previous month, according to statistics released by the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

-- Binh Thuan Province in south-central Vietnam has revised up the total investment of a project to renovate the Phan Thiet-Ke Ga coastal road section from nearly VND1 trillion (US$41.1 million) to some VND1.275 trillion ($52.4 million), according to the provincial People’s Council’s resolution passed on Friday.

Society

-- Operators of the Binh Dien hydropower reservoir and the Ta Trach irrigation dam in Thua Thien Hue Province were asked to release water from the two dams on Saturday morning to brace for upcoming floods, as this central Vietnamese province is expected to see heavy rainfall of over 800mm from Sunday to Friday next week, the provincial steering committee for natural disasters prevention and control said on Friday.

-- The National Action Month on Gender Equality and Gender-based Violence Prevention and Response was launched on Friday by the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the United Nations Office in Vietnam and the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

-- Police in Vinh Phuc Province, northern Vietnam are investigating the death of a 35-year-old woman whose decomposing body was found wrapped in a sack at her house in the province’s Phuc Yen City on Friday.

-- The health authority of Dak Lak Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region set up a working team on Friday to check the compliance with food safety regulations of the Victory elementary, middle and high school, located in the provincial capital city of Buon Ma Thuot, after its eight students were hospitalized due to suspected food poisoning.

World News

-- Global warming has increased the speed at which glaciers in Greenland are melting by fivefold over the last 20 years, Reuters cited scientists from the University of Copenhagen as saying on Friday.

-- The United Nations has described floods that uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia and neighboring countries in East Africa following a historic drought as a once-in-a-century event, Reuters reported.

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