Check out the news you should not miss today, February 21.

Politics

-- Vietnam is working to verify information about a suspect carrying a Vietnamese passport involved in the killing of North Korean national Kim Jong-nam in Malaysia last week, the Foreign Ministry’s Consular Department said on Monday.

Society

-- A train was traveling past the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Monday when it crashed into a truck trying to cross the railway, killing its vice captain and both drivers in the latter’s vehicle.

-- One Vietnamese sailor was killed while six others were held captive by pirates following an attack on a Vietnamese-flagged vessel in the Philippines’ waters on Sunday, Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry confirmed Monday.

-- A woman who had been reported missing for several days in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak was found dead on Monday, with her body, having arms and legs amputated, hidden in a sack.

-- Hanoi chairman Nguyen Duc Chung approved a plan on Monday to turn an existing graveyard in Ha Dong District into a 9.5 hectare cemetery park.

-- No trace of the avian influenza A (H7N9) virus has been found in Vietnam so far, the agriculture ministry said on Monday, following World Health Organization statistics that 304 laboratory-confirmed cases of human infection were reported from mainland China between January 19 and February 14.

-- A man arriving in Hanoi from Russia on an Aeroflot flight was arrested by Vietnamese police and customs officers after four guns and 91 bullet boxes were found in his luggage.

-- The administration of the south-central province of Binh Thuan on Monday rejected a proposal to develop a titanium mining project over the negative impacts it may have on the local environment and ecosystem.

Business

-- Brazil, one of the world’s leading coffee exporters, is in demand of some 400,000 bags of Vietnamese-grown Robusta coffee a month to make up for the South American country’s drought-hit supply, the Vietnamese coffee association said on Monday.

--Vietjet will put one million tickets priced from only VND5,000 on sale for three days starting Wednesday, the low-cost carrier said on Monday.

-- The gigantic ship Margrethe Maersk, capable of carrying 18,300 containers at a time, docked at Cai Mep-Thi Vai International Seaport in the southern Vietnamese province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Monday, adding to the facility’s portfolio of being able to handle the world’s colossal vessels.

Sports

-- V-League 1 side Long An have suspended its goalkeeper Minh Nhu for three matches as a penalty for his poor spirit and lack of sportsmanship in the club's 2-5 loss to Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. The club’s chairman has also resigned in the wake of the scandal.

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