Here are the top news stories about Vietnam you might have missed over the weekend.

Politics

-- Vietnam will mark the 20^th anniversary of its becoming the 7th member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Tuesday.

-- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Truong Tan Sang, and Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh on Sunday, after the military chief returned to Hanoi from a month-long health treatment trip in France a day earlier.

Society

-- Commemorative activities are being held across Vietnam to observe War Invalids and Martyrs Day, July 27, when the country salutes the martyrdom of soldiers who lost their lives defending the sovereignty of the nation.

-- A 22-year-old man was stabbed to death over a petty quarrel by a butcher at a market in the southern province of Dong Nai on Sunday.

-- A truck carrying dozens of thousands of ducks overturned in the southern province of Dong Nai early Sunday, killing thousands of the poultry.

-- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Vietnam Dairy Products JSC launched Sunday a drive to grow one million green trees for the country.

-- A memorial stele was erected Sunday at a war relic site, which used to house the headquarters of Vietnamese armed forces during the anti-U.S. resistance war from 1967 to 1969, in the southern province of Kien Giang.

Business

-- The Ho Chi Minh City administration is seeking a BOT (build-operate-transfer) contractor for a VND5.35 trillion (US$245.75 million) project to build a monorail running from the Phan Van Tri intersection in Go Vap District to Quang Trung Software Park in District 12.

-- Vietnam spent $463 million on importing pesticides and materials in the Jan-Jul period, and $1.2 billion on medicines and drugs, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

Education

-- American physicist Jerome Friedman, a 1990 Nobel Laureate in Physics, arrived in the south-central Vietnamese province of Binh Dinh on Sunday to attend the 11^th Rencontres du Vietnam, an annual international scientific conference.

Sports

-- Members of Premier League side Manchester City arrived in Hanoi on Saturday and have since participated in many exchange activities with local fans, before playing a friendly with the Vietnamese national squad tonight, July 27.

-- Team Vietnam, including 22 martial artists, are leaving for Algeria today, July 27, to attend the 4^th World Vovinam Championship 2015, running from July 27 to August 2.

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