Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- The National Assembly Standing Committee has decided to convene the sixth extraordinary meeting of the 15th-tenure legislature in Hanoi on Thursday to discuss personnel affairs under its authority.

Society

-- The administration in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi is verifying a video on social media showing a young man denouncing a street vendor for demanding payment from him and his friends even when they had not bought anything from her, a district leader told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Wednesday.

-- The People’s Court in Tu Son City, Bac Ninh Province, northern Vietnam on Wednesday ordered major state-run lender Vietcombank to compensate a customer VND700 million (US$28,259) while she lost VND11.9 billion ($480,409) in her account at the bank to swindlers.

-- A 31-year-old man was arrested after stabbing a 56-year-old woman and a three-year-old kid many times in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam, killing the child and severely injuring the woman, said a local official.

-- Authorities in Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam said on Thursday that they were investigating an incident in which a bridge with a weight limit of 3.5 metric tons collapsed while a truck carrying sand was attempting to pass through it the same day. The incident caused the truck driver to be injured.

Sports

-- The Vietnamese men's football team will play against Indonesia at an Indonesian stadium on Thursday evening in the second round of the 2026 World Cup qualification in Asia.

World News

-- “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said on Wednesday recent high inflation readings had not changed the underlying "story" of slowly easing price pressures in the U.S. as the central bank stayed on track for three interest rate cuts this year and affirmed that solid economic growth will continue,” Reuters reported.

-- “France's competition watchdog on Wednesday said it fined Alphabet's Google 250 million euros ($271.73 million) for breaches linked to EU intellectual property rules in its relationship with media publishers, citing concerns about the company's AI service,” according to Reuters.

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