Here are the top news stories about Vietnam over the weekend.

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong starts his five-day visit to the U.S. on Monday.

Society

-- Many illicit pedicab drivers who fleece foreign travelers in downtown Ho Chi Minh City have had their rickshaws seized as police inspected their illegal operation recently, the deputy chairman of Ben Thanh Ward of District 1 said Sunday.

-- Two were killed while many others were severely injured in a head-on crash between a 16-seat passenger bus and a four-seat car in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on Sunday.

-- Yang Qing, an American national, has been arrested by police in the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa for allegedly using fake credit cards to appropriate more than VND1.5 billion (US$68,902) by making 42 payments at a local restaurant, officers said Sunday.

-- A six-year-old girl was killed in a hit and run crash between a 50-seat passenger bus and a motorbike in the southern province of Tien Giang on Sunday.

-- Tropical Storm Linfa is heading toward the northeast region of the East Vietnam Sea and is expected to bring rainfall to several localities in Vietnam.

-- Three members of a family were killed as their fruit-carrying truck crashed into a seafood transporting lorry in the southernmost province of Ca Mau on Sunday.

Business

-- Sabeco, Vietnam’s largest beverage maker, has been asked to pay an additional tax of VND408 billion ($18.74 million) for 2013 after the state auditor looked into its tax-paying activities.

-- Japanese experts have taken samples of soil in the southern Vietnamese province of Dong Thap to study the feasibility of growing a Japanese mango breed there, the director of the province’s agriculture department said Sunday.

-- Work started on Sunday on a project to build a VND12 trillion ($551.22 million) expressway connecting two northern Vietnamese provinces, Bac Giang and Lang Son.

Sports

-- Vietnam’s Vu Thi Trang won the women’s singles event at the White Nights 2015 international badminton tournament after beating U.S. rival Rong Schafer 2-0 in the finale in Gatchina, Russia, on Sunday.

-- English Premier League side Manchester City will play a friendly with the Vietnamese national squad on July 27 and the match will be aired live by national broadcaster VTV, the Vietnam Football Federation confirmed Sunday.                                                                                                                                          

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