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Society

-- Police in Hanoi successfully rescued seven people who were trapped in a fire at a six-story boarding house in Cau Giay District on Monday morning, officers reported the same day.

-- The owner of a ‘bun rieu’ (Vietnamese crab noodle soup) shop in Hanoi, which was earlier suspended for charging customers VND400,000 (US$16) per bowl on January 29, the first day of the Lunar New Year (Tet), has written a letter of apology and returned the excess money to the customers. The customers accepted the apology and donated the returned money to a fund for the poor.

-- Around 3.6 million passengers passed through Vietnamese airports during the Tet holiday, from January 25 to February 2, up 16 percent over the same period last year, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

-- One of the three peddlers involved in a scuffle with Chinese tourists at Long Son Pagoda in Nha Trang City, located in south-central Vietnam, was fined VND400,000 (US$16), a local official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday.

-- A man who traded and slaughtered dogs in Gia Lai Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands succumbed to rabies after getting a dog bite and did not get vaccinated over a month earlier, the provincial Center for Disease Control reported on Monday. 

Business

-- Da Lat, a popular city in Vietnam's Central Highlands, welcomed some 320,000 visitors during Tet, a 35-percent increase compared to the 2024 Lunar New Year holiday, despite a modest number of events during the occasion. The Lam Dong Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism attributed the increase in visitors to the cherry-like apricot blossom season.

-- Mang Den Town in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum welcomed nearly 230,000 visitors during the nine-day Tet holiday, fetching tourism revenue of VND80 billion ($3.2 million), a local official reported on Monday.

World News

-- “Global financial markets fell on Monday over tariffs imposed on Canada, Mexico and China by U.S. President Donald Trump, while world leaders steeled themselves to respond to his next moves, with the European Union in the firing line,” according to Reuters.

-- “Beyonce scored the top prize at music's Grammy Awards on Sunday, taking album of the year for the first time in her career with her country record 'Cowboy Carter,' at a ceremony that delivered a love letter to wildfire-ravaged Los Angeles,” Reuters reported.

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