Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- More than 70 workers at a textile factory in Yen Thanh District, Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam have been hospitalized given signs of food poisoning following their lunch on Tuesday.

-- Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have pledged to have the long-awaited metro line No. 1 begin full commercial operations by the last quarter of this year.

-- The People’s Committee of Can Tho, a city in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, has approved non-project aid totaling US$122,000 from a Dutch non-profit organization to enhance the collection of marine plastic waste using litter traps and establish a trial recycling system.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has announced a ban on vehicles entering the car lanes on the section of Le Loi Boulevard stretching from Nguyen Trung Truc Street to Ham Nghi Street in District 1, from May 29 to June 6, to facilitate the organization of a river cuisine contest.

– News on a young woman frequently dining at luxury hotel restaurants in Hanoi without paying went viral on social media on Tuesday.

Business

-- Tourism revenue in Hanoi surpassed VND9 trillion ($353.6 million) in May and exceeded VND45.8 trillion ($1.8 billion) for the January-May period, according to the municipal Department of Tourism.

Sports

-- Titleholders Vietnam and debutants Kazakhstan have set up the final game of the 2024 Asian Volleyball Confederation Challenge Cup for Women by defeating their respective Australian and Philippine opponents in the semifinals held at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in the Philippines on Tuesday. The final takes place at 6:00 pm on Wednesday and will be broadcast live on YouTube.

Lifestyle

-- TasteAtlas, a platform dedicated to discovering global cuisine, lists bánh mì (Vietnamese bread), phở (Vietnamese noodle soup), cơm tấm (Vietnamese broken rice), chả giò (spring rolls), and bánh xèo (Vietnamese sizzling crepe) among its top 100 Asian street foods.

-- Dozens of monkeys have quickly adapted to the natural habitat on an island within Vu Quang National Park in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam upon release following their rehabilitation there.

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