Check out what is in the news today, July 6:

Politics

-- On the morning of July 5 (local time), Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, his spouse and a delegation of high-ranking officials, arrived in Frankfurt, beginning his official visit to Germany to attend the G20 Summit at the invitation of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

-- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the Embassy of Vietnam in the Philippines have asked local authorities to verify press reports that two Vietnamese sailors were killed by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, MoFA’s spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang said on Wednesday while answering reporters’ questions about the sailors’ death.

-- The U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS-4) on Wednesday docked at the Cam Ranh seaport in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa to join exchange activities with local naval officers.

Society

-- Pollution killed more than 1.6 million lobsters in the south-central province of Phu Yen from May 24 to June 6, causing damage worth hundreds of billions of dong, officials said at a press conference on Wednesday.

-- Around 115 trees on Ton Duc Thang Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, will be removed while 143 others are expected to be cut down for the construction of the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge.

Business

-- A number of investors from Hong Kong and South Korea have proposed a project to construct a racecourse worth US$500 million in the southern city of Can Tho.

Lifestyle

-- Ho Chi Minh City has seen an emerging trend of recreational fishing at suburban resorts with prizes of up to hundreds of millions of dong.