Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, June 25

Politics

-- Japan is Vietnam’s key partner in human resources development, head of the Party Central Committee’s Organization Commission Pham Minh Chinh underlined as he received visiting Director General of the National Personnel Authority of Japan Yoshida Kozo in Hanoi on Friday.

-- China’s arrangement of tours to Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago is an act that seriously violates Vietnam’s sovereignty over the islands, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Le Hai Binh said on Friday.

Society

-- All of the nine members of the crew on board the Vietnamese coast guard aircraft CASA-212 8983, which crashed into the ocean off the northern coastline last Thursday, have been confirmed dead, a top military officer said Friday, as numerous pieces of the plane debris and four bodies have been found.

-- Three schoolboys, aged 9 to 13, drowned while swimming at a man-made pool in the southern province of Dong Nai on Friday, the latest in a series of drowning cases this summer.

-- An incident in the cockpit is the cause for the crash of the SU30-MK2 fighter jet, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Senior Lieutenant General Vo Van Tuan said at a press conference on Friday, citing the surviving pilot of the military plane, Nguyen Huu Cuong.

-- Vietnam’s north-to-south railway resumed to normal as of midnight on Friday, as the Ghenh Bridge, a railway bridge that collapsed in March, paralyzing the country’s most important train route.

-- A 12-year-old boy in the southern province of Kien Giang died after a big tree, uprooted by a strong thunderstorm, fell into his house on Friday.

-- A tropical depression off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) has been bringing rain to southern Vietnam this week, with rainfall forecast to reach the central region today, June 25.

Business

-- Vietnam's benchmark VN Index lost 1.82 percent to 620.77 points at the close on Friday, as Britain's vote to quit the European Union delivered what Reuters said is the biggest blow to the global financial system since the 2008 financial crisis.

-- Vietnam’s trade ties with Britain may not see any significant impact in an immediate term following the Brexit, industry insiders said Friday, as Britain voted to quit the European Union.

Sports

-- Former Manchester United stars Dwight Yorke and Ronny Johnsen arrived in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday for a promotional event where they will lead a local team each for a friendly today, June 25.

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