Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, May 14

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong received Han Zheng, Secretary of China’s Shanghai Party Committee, in Hanoi on Friday, expressing his hope that the visit will help strengthen ties between Shanghai and Ho Chi Minh City.

Society                                                      

-- Customs at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City said on Friday they had found many detachable parts of a gun, 50 bullets and two bottles of tear gas in a batch of imported clothes shipped from the U.S.

-- Stephanie Inglis, a 27-year-old Scottish Judo teacher, is in a critical condition after a traffic accident in the northern Vietnamese city of Ha Long on Tuesday.

-- A violent thunderstorm swept along the coast of the central province of Quang Binh on Friday, destroying many local fishing boats.

-- Vietnam’s national broadcaster VTV was fined VND50 million (US$2,232) for “broadcasting false information” in a report that accuses farmers in a village in the northern province of Thanh Hoa of using dishonest treat to grow and sell clean vegetables.

Business

-- The Vietnam Gold Traders Association has called on the State Bank of Vietnam to set up a national gold exchange to make the best use of a total of 500 metric tons of gold currently held by members of the public, as the country currently bans gold deposits.

-- The latest test results released Friday by the Vietnam Food Administration found that the C2 bottled green tea and Rong Do (Red Dragon) energy drink, produced by URC Vietnam, have a content of lead within allowed amount.

-- Despite an abundant domestic supply of chicken, Vietnam’s Animal Health Agency has proposed importing the poultry from China “to control epidemic,” a request that leaves experts and members of the public in shock.

-- Chinese traders have abruptly stopped buying pigs from Vietnam, leaving farmers who rushed to expand their herds in losses.

Lifestyle

-- A photo exhibition themed “Vietnam in the 1980s,” by Michael Blanchard, who led the AFP News Agency's Office in Hanoi in 1980, is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City’s IDECAF Library from May 11 to 31.

Sports

-- The Vietnam Tennis Federation has reached an agreement with Roger Federer to have the world’s No.2 participate in a three-day exhibition tour in Hanoi in December 2017.

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