Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired a meeting of the sub-committee on personnel affairs of the 14th National Party Congress in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Society

-- The Department of Health of Khanh Hoa Province in south-central Vietnam on Wednesday suspended a restaurant in the beach city of Nha Trang to facilitate the investigation into a case involving 60 people allegedly suffering from food poisoning after dining there.

-- Police in Nha Trang City announced on Wednesday that they had launched legal proceedings and issued an arrest warrant against a 32-year-old local man who had robbed a 14-year-old Belarusian girl two days earlier.

-- Tran Ngoc Tam, chairman of the People’s Committee of Ben Tre Province, has proposed the construction of a canal connecting the Saigon and Dong Nai river systems with the Mekong River to mitigate saline intrusion in the Mekong Delta.

-- Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha on Wednesday signed a directive assigning the People’s Committee of Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam to oversee the investment in the Bien Hoa airport project, located in the heart of Bien Hoa City, under the public-private partnership (PPP) format.

Business

-- The number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals in Vietnam, who boast a net worth of US$30 million or more, increased 2.4 percent to 752 in 2023 from 734 in 2022, according to the latest edition of The Wealth Report by property consultancy Knight Frank.

-- Over 60 businesses from 12 countries and territories are showcasing their latest plastic and rubber products at the Plastics & Rubber Vietnam 2024 exhibition, held at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City from Wednesday to Friday.

Sports

-- The first VPBank Can Tho Music Night Run 2024, jointly held by the Culture, Sports, and Tourism Department of Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta, VPBank, and Nexus Sport Events, is expected to bring new experiences to 5,000 runners on April 12-13.

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