Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted separate receptions in Hanoi on Friday for Pakistani Ambassador Kohdayar Marri and Thai Ambassador Urawadee Sriphiromya, who recently took up their diplomatic posts in Vietnam.

Business

-- The administration of Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam presented investment certificates to 14 projects worth nearly US$728 million in the province's industrial zones on Friday afternoon, including seven new foreign direct investment projects with a registered capital of $242.9 million.

Society

-- A passenger bus crashed into a median barrier and overturned near the Nai Pass in Song Cau Town, Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam in the early hours of Saturday, leaving three people dead and multiple others injured, a local official confirmed the same day.

-- A cold front has extended its reach across most of northern Vietnam and parts of central Vietnam, bringing cold temperatures, drizzle, and even a chance of snow in high-altitude areas, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting said on Saturday.

-- Police in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam announced on Friday that they had initiated criminal proceedings and arrested a 46-year-old bartender from Hoi An City for violating food safety regulations after two international visitors died from methanol poisoning at a tourist villa in Hoi An on December 26 last year.

-- Authorities in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam confirmed that they had repatriated 177 Vietnamese citizens, including 19 females and 158 males, from Cambodia on Thursday. Among them, 129 had left Vietnam illegally while 176 individuals were found to be working in online scam operations.

Sports

-- The Union Mondiale de Billard, or the World Union of Billiards, and the Ho Chi Minh City Billiards & Snooker Federation have officially signed a three-year agreement to organize the World Cup Three-Cushion Billiards tournament in Ho Chi Minh City from 2025 to 2027, both sides announced at a press conference on Friday.

World News

-- A U.S. judge on Friday said he would pause plans to place 2,200 U.S. Agency for International Development employees on leave, as part of a temporary "limited" order blocking the Trump administration from taking some steps to dismantle the agency, according to Reuters.

-- Sweden's right-wing government said on Friday it would seek to tighten gun laws in the wake of the country's deadliest mass shooting at an adult education center where the attacker appeared to have used several of his own licensed rifles, Reuters reported.

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