Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- U.S. President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Kin Moy, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister, to be the next U.S. ambassador to Vietnam. Kin Moy is currently Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, according to a White House announcement.

Society

-- The administration in Ho Chi Minh City has approved a plan to organize the Cashless Day 2024, themed ‘Promoting the Development of Safe Cashless Payments,’ on Nguyen Hue Walking Street in District 1 from June 14 to 16.

-- A ride-hailing driver on Thursday night detected and filmed a foreigner spraying paint and scrawling graffiti on walls along Tran Hung Dao Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. The video has gone viral on social media in Vietnam.

-- A collision of a sleeper bus, a truck, and a container truck injured nine people in Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam on Friday evening, the provincial traffic police said on Saturday.

-- Authorities of Da Nang City in central Vietnam on Friday evening officially opened Bach Dang pedestrian zone along the iconic Han River. The pedestrian zone is the city’s new tourism product ahead of the 2024 Da Nang International Fireworks Festival.

-- Singapore has arrested six female Vietnamese and seven male Singaporeans, aged between 22 and 32, for suspected marriage of convenience, according to Singapore’s Immigration & Checkpoints Authority.

Lifestyle

-- Lee Kyoung Dock, chargé d'affaires of the South Korean Embassy in Vietnam, at a meeting with representatives of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Thursday, expressed his excitement at the newspaper’s initiative of organizing the Vietnam Phở Festival 2024 in Seoul in early September and believed the event to be a success.

-- The administration in Thua Thien-Hue Province held an art program to open the Hue Festival Week 2024 at Kien Trung Palace, part of the Hue Imperial City on Friday evening.

World News

-- “Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen walked away following an assault by a man in central Copenhagen on Friday and had no outward signs of harm,” a local resident told Reuters.

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