Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening held a ceremony to receive a certificate of its membership of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities (GNLC). Vietnam now boasts five localities within the GNLC.

-- Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City government Phan Van Mai has tasked relevant agencies with weighing the cessation of a project to renovate Phan Dinh Phung Sports Center at a prime location in District 3, which has been abandoned for 14 years. Meanwhile, the project investor still wants to continue executing the project.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board has sought the municipal administration’s permission to lease part of an office building which includes a basement and seven floors in District 12 of the city’s metro line No. 2. The building, which was put into operation in 2020, is currently the workplace of some 30 officials of the project management board.

-- Vietnamese air carrier Bamboo Airways will officially relocate its headquarters in Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City on Monday, the latest move of its restructuring process after its former chairman Trinh Van Quyet was arrested.

Business

-- China Tourism Group and China Duty Free have worked with authorities in Quang Ninh Province, Khanh Hoa Province, and Ho Chi Minh City and entered into a memorandum of understanding with Imex Pan Pacific Group whose chairman is well-known billionaire Johnathan Hanh Nguyen to open three duty-free stores in the three Vietnamese localities.

-- Vietnam won a bid to export 108,000 metric tons of rice to Indonesia, according to the Vietnam Food Association.

Education

-- The American International School Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City has asked parents to contribute VND125 billion (US$5 million), or VND9.5-25 million ($382.8-1,000) each per month, depending on their children’s grade, to help the school maintain its operation in the 2023-34 academic year. The school had earlier suspended classes for all students as most teachers did not show up due to unpaid salaries.

World News

-- “Indonesian firefighters were battling to put out a massive fire that broke out on Saturday at a military ammunition depot just outside the capital, causing a series of explosions and sending flames and smoke into the night sky, according to Reuters.

-- “Salvage crews were set to lift the first piece of Baltimore's collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water on Saturday to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, the first step in a complex effort to reopen the city's blocked port,” Reuters reported, citing Maryland and U.S. officials said.

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