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Business

-- The remaining 19-kilometer-long section of the 50-kilometer Dien Chau - Bai Vot Expressway will be opened to traffic on Sunday. The expressway, which is part of Vietnam’s big-ticket North - South Expressway project, passes through the two north-central provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh and carries a price tag of VND11.15 trillion (US$438 million), the Ministry of Transport said on Friday.

Society

-- Danang International Terminal Investment and Operation JSC confirmed on Friday that it had rewarded a 57-year-old airport cleaner for doing a good deed of returning a lost backpack with over $54,900 worth of cash inside to a Japanese passenger.

-- The transport authority of Ho Chi Minh City has suggested offering free rides on metro line No.1, which runs from Ben Thanh Market in District 1 to Suoi Tien Theme Park in Thu Duc City, in three months after the route commences commercial operation.

-- Coastal Vietnamese provinces running Quang Ninh to Kien Giang were told to brace for a low-pressure area possibly formed in the northern part of the East Vietnam Sea, including the country’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, according to an announcement released on Friday by the national steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control.

-- Three girls aged between eight and 10 drowned when they were bathing in a lake in Dong Xuan District of Vietnam’s central Phu Yen Province on Friday morning, a local official confirmed the same day.

Lifestyle

-- The administration of Nga Bay City in Hau Giang Province, southern Vietnam launched an investment and tourism promotion event on Friday evening to honor the local culture, history, cuisine, and traditional craft villages, as well as to promote its tourism to visitors at home and overseas.

Sports

-- Vietnamese rowers on Friday won two gold, six silver and four bronze medals at the 2024 Southeast Asia Rowing and Canoeing, U19 and U23 Championships being held in the northern port city of Hai Phong, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

World News

-- In Russia's far northeastern Yakutia region, local scientists are performing an autopsy on a wolf frozen in permafrost for around 44,000 years, a find they said was the first of its kind, according to Reuters.

-- Adding partners to the AUKUS defense project would be "complicated," a senior Australian diplomat said on Friday, saying he did not believe the U.S. Congress is open to expanding the pact involving Australia, the U.S. and Britain, Reuters reported.

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