What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Society

-- More than 40 workers of a company in Bac Giang Province, northern Vietnam are receiving treatment for suspected food poisoning after a party on Sunday, the provincial Department of Health reported on Monday.

-- Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam celebrated welcoming its three millionth foreign visitor this year at Ha Long International Passenger Port on Monday. The milestone was marked by the arrival of a passenger aboard the Viking Orion, a German-flagged cruise ship that carried nearly 900 tourists from Hong Kong to Quang Ninh.

-- The World Health Organization (WHO) honored Vietnam for successfully eliminating trachoma, the leading infectious cause of blindness globally, at the 75th session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Western Pacific, which opened in the Philippines on Monday.

-- A video circulating on social media shows a dangerous incident involving a truck and a tractor-trailer as they chased and obstructed each other while attempting to overtake on a section of the Ho Chi Minh City - Trung Luong Expressway in Long An Province, southern Vietnam.

-- The principal of a middle school in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City on Monday handed over a female Javan pangolin weighing 4.5 kilograms caught by a security guard of the school to the municipal Forest Protection Department.

-- A five-seater car fell into an abyss some 50 meters deep in Lam Dong Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, on Monday, killing a man from Ho Chi Minh City and injuring a woman from southern Dong Thap Province.

Business

-- Finnish communications and information technology company Nokia announced on Monday a partnership with Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group (VNPT), one of Vietnam's leading telecommunications operators, to deploy 5G technology in the Southeast Asian country.

-- The 2024 Green Economy Forum & Exhibition opened in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday, featuring seminars, business-to-business and government dialogue sessions, and over 200 booths displaying eco-friendly products and solutions. The event focuses on promoting the circular economy and reducing emissions, with participation from enterprises and organizations across 13 countries and territories. It will continue until Wednesday.

World News

-- “Tesla's investors and analysts will get a chance to grill CEO Elon Musk on his robotaxi plans on Wednesday when the electric automaker reports its quarterly results, after a much-hyped unveil this month that lacked key details and slammed shares,” according to Reuters.

-- “An Istanbul prosecutor has indicted 47 people, including doctors and nurses, over the inappropriate treatment of babies for profit, causing the death of at least 10 newborns in one of Turkey's biggest health scandals in recent years,” Reuters reported.

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