Read what is in the news in Vietnam today: 

Politics

-- Indonesian President Joko Widodo left the northern port city of Hai Phong at noon on Saturday, concluding his three-day state visit to Vietnam, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- Police in Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam said on Saturday that they had arrested a 23-year-old worker at the construction site of an expressway project for allegedly operating an excavator to kill the construction site manager on Friday.

-- The standing board of the Party Committee in Bac Ninh Province, located in northern Vietnam, has mandated the dismissal of Dang Tran Trung, director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development. This decision stems from the discovery that Trung consistently engaged in golfing activities during official working hours.

-- Gridlock has persistently plagued the Rach Mieu Bridge, linking the southern Vietnamese provinces of Tien Giang and Ben Tre, during all time slots over the past 10 days. This congestion is attributed to a significant increase in the number of vehicles transporting goods in preparation for the Lunar New Year holiday, commonly known as Tet, scheduled for February.

-- Police in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City on Friday detained four people, including two women and two men, for allegedly stealing assets at hospitals in the district.

-- Australian police are investigating the disappearance of five Vietnamese exchange students in Adelaide City. The five were believed to go missing at different times between last month and this month, according to Australian broadcast news service 7 News.

-- The Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of Lam Dong Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands fined eight Vietnamese tour guides VND5 million (US$204) each for letting South Koreans do their job at tourist sites in the province, the department said on Saturday.

-- Ho Chi Minh City is facing a shortage of 10,000 square meters of spaces to store vehicles seized from violators of traffic regulations, as impoundment lots in the city have been overloaded, said a representative of the municipal police.

Business

-- More than 2.8 million micro, small, and medium enterprises and household businesses in Vietnam were trading on TikTok as of November last year, a TikTok Vietnam representative told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Saturday.

World News

-- “A domestic flight of Japan's All Nippon Airways returned to its departure airport on Saturday after a crack was found on the cockpit window of the Boeing 737-800 aircraft midair,” Reuters reported, citing a spokesperson for the airline.

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