Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- The Department of Construction in Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the municipal government task it and relevant agencies with studying a massive project to relocate all households along city canals. 

-- Police in Binh Duong Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, are investigating an accident in which a dump truck crashed into two trucks, a car, and a motorcycle waiting at a red light, killing one person and injuring another on Monday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has approved a plan to eliminate a roundabout at the intersection of Pham Van Dong Boulevard and Street No. 20 in Thu Duc City.

-- Residents have traveled through a riverside road in Da Nang City, central Vietnam although the road has yet to be opened to traffic.

-- The prime minister has required launching a campaign to rigorously handle illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing vessels before November 20 when a European Commission team is expected to arrive in Vietnam for its fifth IUU inspection in the coming time.  

Business

-- On Monday, Kim Long Motor Hue JSC, based in Thua Thien-Hue Province, handed over 50 Kim Long X9 buses, the latest Vietnamese-branded 16-seater model, to Binh Minh Investment Group JSC in Ho Chi Minh City. These buses will be used to transport students, workers, and tourists.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City administration has decided that apartment blocks with two or more floors and fewer than 20 apartments can only be built in areas where the roads are at least 3.5 meters wide.

World News

-- “At least 25 people died off Comoros islands after traffickers capsized their boat on Friday night, the third such incident in three months, Reuters reported, citing the United Nations' migration agency IOM.

-- “Seven French families have filed a lawsuit against social media giant TikTok, accusing the platform of exposing their adolescent children to harmful content that led to two of them taking their own lives at 15,” according to Reuters.

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