Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you do not want to miss today, October 29.

Politics

-- The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment (AMME 13) and the 14th ASEAN+3 Ministerial Meeting on the Environment and related events kicked off in Hanoi on Wednesday.

-- The Communist Party of Vietnam and the French Communist Party are attending the second theoretical workshop, which discusses opportunities and challenges in international integration and realizing sustainable development goals in the two countries, which will conclude in Hanoi on Thursday.

Society

-- The U.S. has granted some US$900 million worth of aid to the Vietnamese healthcare sector in the past 20 years, U.S. Ambassador Ted Osius said at a ceremony to celebrate the 20th anniversary of healthcare cooperation between the two countries in Hanoi on Wednesday.

-- Vietnam joined other nine ASEAN countries and China, Japan, India and Australia in the 2015 ASEAN CERT (Computer Emergency Response Teams) Incident Drill on Wednesday.

-- Police are hunting for two men who allegedly threw a petrol bomb into a mobile phone store in the southern city of Bien Hoa on Wednesday.

-- Dang Van Hung, 26, who claimed four lives in a family in the northern Vietnamese province of Yen Bai in August, was sentenced to death by a local court on Wednesday.

Business

-- Vietnam jumped three notches to rank 90^th out of 189 economies surveyed in the World Bank’s latest Doing Business 2016 report.

-- Thuan Kieu Plaza, a complex of three multistory apartment buildings that has been almost abandoned for years in Ho Chi Minh City, is set to undergo a major revamp, the project’s developer has said without giving details.

-- Japan’s AEON Group inaugurated its first-ever outlet in Hanoi, the $200 million AEON MALL Long Bien, on Wednesday, sending the total number of its malls in Vietnam to three, with the other two located in Ho Chi Minh City.

Sports

-- Vietnam Professional Football, the company set up to oversee the country’s top football competitions, replaced its general director on Wednesday in an apparent bid to regain public trust after several disappointing seasons of the V-League 1.

-- 2015 V-League 1 runners-up Hanoi T&T have been invited to play in a friendly tournament, which consists of clubs from Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and China, in the Chinese city of Kunming from November 20 to December 1.

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