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Business

-- Saigon Transportation Mechanical Corporation, a state-owned enterprise in Ho Chi Minh City, opened a 2,765-square-meter dealership for VinFast electric cars in Binh Tan District on Saturday. The company is also exploring the production of electric buses and electric cars for tourism in the near future.

Society

-- A 50-year-old woman in Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam sustained serious injuries after being struck by a north-south train when she was crossing the railway on her motorcycle on Saturday afternoon, a local transport official confirmed the same day.

-- High tides once again caused severe flooding on Tran Xuan Soan Street, a flooding hotspot in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City, on Saturday afternoon, disrupting traffic flow and local inhabitants' daily activities.

-- Hundreds of people and dozens of vehicles on Saturday joined a chemical spill drill at the Long Son Petrochemical Complex, a US$5-billion facility which began commercial operations late last month in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, southern Vietnam.

-- A military unit has safely defused a 1,362kg American-made bomb whose detonator and explosives were still intact. The bomb was found near the Long Bien Bridge in Hanoi on October 10, said a military official on Saturday.

-- Local authorities in Dong Xoai City, Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam confirmed on Saturday that a seven-year-old boy had died of dengue fever. His 18-month-old sister was also diagnosed with dengue fever on October 15.

World News

-- Cuba's government said on Saturday it had made some progress in gradually re-establishing electrical service across the island, including to hospitals and parts of the capital Havana, after state-run media earlier reported the national grid had collapsed for a second time in 24 hours, according to Reuters.

-- A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 aircraft bound for New York made an emergency stop due to a technical incident at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal on Saturday, Reuters cited the West African nation's transport ministry as saying.

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