Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Two foreigners, including a 49-year-old Russian man and another man whose identity remains unknown, died and a 47-year-old Russian woman was injured after the Russians’ motorbike collided with the unidentified man’s motorbike in Binh Thuan Province, located in south-central Vietnam, on Saturday afternoon.

-- A family in Dong Nai Province, neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, has placed their four-seater car, which they used for 20 years, on their house gate because they have no parking space but still want to keep it.

-- Firefighters rescued seven people trapped in a fire that broke out at an eight-floor house in Hanoi on Saturday afternoon.

-- Police in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam said on Saturday that they were keeping a 19-year-old woman in temporary custody as she allegedly threw her three-month-old child into a local canal following a conflict with her husband and his family the previous day.

-- A large downpour-triggered landslide occurred in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam on Saturday afternoon, blocking traffic on a road section. The incident caused no human casualties, a local official reported the same day.

-- From November 11 to 17, Ho Chi Minh City recorded over 12,000 dengue fever cases, a 27.8-percent decrease compared to last year. Despite the drop, it was still the highest number of cases logged in a locality in the southern region during that period, according to the municipal Department of Health.

-- The People’s Council in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam has ratified a project to upgrade traffic infrastructure in Dung Quat Economic Zone, with a budget of VND350 billion (US$13.8 million). This project is slated for execution between 2024 and 2027.

Business

-- A South Korean real estate firm and a Malaysian entrepreneur have expressed their interest in projects of property developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group, whose former chairwoman Truong My Lan was earlier sentenced to death in one of the biggest corruption cases in history, with an estimated $27 billion in damages.

World News

-- “Countries at the COP29 summit in Baku adopted a $300 billion a year global finance target on Sunday to help poorer nations cope with impacts of climate change, a deal its intended recipients roundly criticized as woefully insufficient,” Reuters reported.

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