Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics 

-- Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, Secretary for Relations with States and International Organizations of the Vatican, will visit Vietnam from April 9 to 14 at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Vietnam, the office of the conference announced on Wednesday.

Society

-- Nineteen dogs and many belongings of a woman who leased an apartment in Ho Chi Minh City were left outdoors all night on Wednesday following her conflict with the apartment owner over the raising of the dogs there.

-- Police in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam are investigating a traffic accident in which a 23-year-old driver drove a car into a group of motorbikes running in the opposite direction, injuring five people. The driver later tested positive for meth.

-- Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City administration Phan Van Mai on Wednesday required the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board, the investor of the first metro line project in the city, to make a detailed report on the operation plan of the route before Wednesday next week.

-- Ho Chi Minh City-based Saigon Public Transport Co. Ltd. on Wednesday said that it would launch 70 electric vehicles with five to 14 seats each to transport tourists from April 12. The pilot program will last until the end of 2025.

-- Nineteen students of a middle school in Vinh Long Province, located in southern Vietnam, were hospitalized on Wednesday as they developed symptoms of nausea and shortness of breath after playing with fart bombs, a kind of toy labeled as made in China.

-- No Vietnamese citizens have been reported as victims in a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday so far, according to the Vietnam Economic and Cultural Office in Taipei. The tremor, which is the biggest to have struck Taiwan in at least 25 years, killed nine people, injured more than 900, and left 50 others missing.

Lifestyle

-- South Korean model and actor Jung Il Woo on Tuesday uploaded photos of his trip to Hanoi to Instagram, during which he had tried Vietnamese beef pho, ca phe sua da (iced coffee mixed with sweetened condensed milk) and beer.

World News

-- “Multiple Apple services, including the App Store, Apple TV+ and Apple Music, were down on Wednesday for users in the United States," Reuters reported.

-- “Rare storms with typhoon-like winds have killed at least seven people in China's southern Jiangxi province since the weekend, three of them blown out of their high-rise apartments in their sleep,” according to Reuters.

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