Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, June 28:

Politics

-- Ho Chi Minh City should be turned into a modern, smart metropolis and “a pearl that illuminates the Orient,” Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc requested at a meeting with city leaders on Monday.

-- Vietnam's foreign minister and deputy premier Pham Binh Minh and visiting Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi attended a bilateral ‘steering committee’ meeting in Hanoi on Monday, when both diplomats underlined the importance of settling disputes in the East Vietnam Sea through peaceful means.

-- Vietnam and China have finalized all procedures to establish a Chinese Consulate General in the central city of Da Nang, the two countries announced on Monday.

Society

-- The black box and two more crew bodies believed to belong to the Vietnamese coast guard aircraft CASA-212 8983, which crashed into the ocean off the northern coastline on June 9, were found on Monday.

-- Three big trees were uprooted in separate cases during a violent thunderstorm in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday, falling onto several people and vehicles. There were no casualties in all three accidents.

-- Vietnam is likely to postpone the effective date of the new 2015 Penal Code, set to take effect on July 1, to rectify a number of technical errors, according to a decision made at an unusual meeting convened by the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Monday.

-- Four in a six-member family in the southern province of Dong Nai died as their house, used as an electronics store, caught fire early Monday.

-- A new tropical depression entered the East Vietnam Sea on Monday, after crossing the Philippine island of Luzon, bringing rain to many Vietnamese localities.

Business

-- It is not easy to stop Chinese people from working as unlicensed tour guides, authorities of the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa, whose capital Nha Trang is said by experts to be on the verge of being ‘Chinalized,’ said on Monday.

-- The British pound continued to drop to VND30,057 on Monday, losing VND1,262 from the weekend.

-- Turkish Airlines has inaugurated the nonstop Istanbul – Hanoi service, with the inaugural flight arriving safely in the Vietnamese capital on Monday.

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