Check out the news you should not miss today, May 26

Politics

-- A celebration of the 45th founding anniversary of Vietnam-Australia diplomatic ties was held in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Chansy Phosikham, head of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee’s Organisation Commission, in Hanoi on Friday, affirming that Vietnam stands ready to increase support for Laos in personnel training.

Society

-- An 11-year-old boy in the north-central province of Nghe An was hospitalized with brain damage on Friday after he accepted a challenge to down one liter of alcohol from his friends.

-- An apartment on the 18th floor of an 18-story condo in Hanoi caught fire on Friday night, with no casualties reported.

-- A GrabBike driver in Hanoi, who was accused of conducting verbal sexual harassment with a nine-year-old girl he was hired to take to school, has been slapped with a mere VND200,000 (US$8.5) civil fine as there are not enough grounds to criminally charge him.

Business

-- Quality of Vietnam’s economic growth in 2011-17 has improved in many aspects with high expansion of GDP and increasing labour productivity and incremental capital output ratio, Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung said at the debate during the fifth session of the 14th National Assembly in Hanoi on Friday.

-- Vietnam is committed to creating more opportunities for European investors,  Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said in his remarks at the “Meet Europe 2018” conference in Hanoi on Friday.

Lifestyle

-- A Vietnamese-Korean bilingual book on late General Vo Nguyen Giap, a work of photographer and journalist Tran Tuan, was introduced in Hanoi on Friday before its launch in South Korea,

Sports

-- The Three-Cushion Carom Billiards World Cup officially kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, attracting 150 leading cueists from 17 countries and territories.