Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, June 2:

Society

-- The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has assigned competent agencies to consider a project to build an underground mall at the Bach Dang Port park in District 1 proposed by a private company.

-- Authorities in the southern province of An Giang have closed three sand mines on the Tien and Hau Rivers for environmental recovery after several years of mining.

-- A Singaporean company has proposed installing Wi-Fi networks in the whole Ho Chi Minh City, said Tran Vinh Tuyen, Deputy Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee.

-- Police in the central province of Quang Nam said they had arrested seven people of a ring that stored and circulated counterfeit money in many provinces and cities, with more than 1,100 fake banknotes detected. The supplier of the counterfeit money is Chinese.

Business

-- Vietnamese budget carrier Vietjet Air has launched its daily Ho Chi Minh City-Kuala Lumpur route.

Lifestyle

-- The Vietnamese publication of David Stabler’s book ‘True Tales of Childhood from America's Presidents’ has been released in Vietnam by local publisher Kim Dong. The book features 16 interesting stories telling 44 presidents’ childhood events.

-- A competition to seek for Hanoi’s reading ambassadors has been launched by the local Department of Information and Communications in collaboration with the Department of Education and Training.

Education

-- Nguyen Dang Nhat Minh, a 7-year-old boy from the south-central province of Binh Dinh, has amazed those who have met him with his stunning command of English even though he has not been taught the language at school. The little boy started by watching English-language movies without Vietnamese subtitles on the Internet.