Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reports that on Monday, Son La Province, Hoa Binh Province, and the areas from Thanh Hoa to Phu Yen Provinces will experience particularly high temperatures, reaching 39-42 degrees Celsius, with some regions exceeding 42 degrees Celsius. Intense heat is also expected in the north, Central Highlands, and south, with temperatures ranging from 36 to 39 degrees Celsius, and exceeding 39 degrees Celsius in certain locations.

-- The Department of Cyber Security and High-Tech Crime Prevention and Control under the Ministry of Public Security, in collaboration with the Public Security Department of Nghe An Province in north-central Vietnam, have apprehended 12 individuals involved in a transnational crime ring operating a website that distributed over 19 million pieces of sex content, attracting hundreds of millions of visits.

-- Throngs of people seeking respite from the heat filled the beaches of Da Nang City in central Vietnam on Sunday afternoon.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday afternoon attended the inauguration ceremony of the Cam Lam-Vinh Hao Expressway in Ninh Thuan Province, a component of the eastern part of the North-South Expressway project.

-- The upgrading of National Highway 19 has led to the serious degradation and cracking of around 400 houses in Tay Giang Commune, Tay Son District, Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam for the past two years.

-- The situation of vendors selling street food and tourists filming and photographing near rails, violating railway traffic safety, persists in Hanoi despite authorities’ efforts to cease it.

-- Authorities in Hoan Kiem District, Hanoi are verifying a video depicting two foreign tourists allegedly being charged VND500,000 (US$19.7) by a street vendor for three pineapples in the Old Quarter area.

-- Medical workers of the Vietnamese level-2 field hospital No. 5 serving the United Nations Peacekeeping mission in South Sudan recently gave gifts to Sudanese students and teachers in celebration of Vietnam’s Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers’ Day (May 1).

Sports

-- More than 300 domestic and foreign participants took part in the ‘Across the Summer Waves’ swimming and stand-up paddle boarding (SUP) races in Da Nang City on Sunday.

-- Paris St Germain were crowned Ligue 1 champions for a record-extending 12th time on Sunday, as their third straight title was wrapped up following another dominant domestic campaign when second-placed AS Monaco lost 3-2 at Olympique Lyonnais, Reuters reported.

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