Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, September 6.

Politics

-- French President Francois Hollande arrived in Hanoi at dawn on Tuesday for a three-day state visit to Vietnam at the invitation of State President Tran Dai Quang.

-- Signatories to the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, including Vietnam and Canada, should join hands to achieve the target of limiting the planet’s warming to below two degrees Celsius, Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion suggested as he met with Vietnamese students in Hanoi on Monday.

Society

-- A 40-seater passenger bus, traveling from the north-central province of Quang Binh to Hanoi, was fined on Monday a total of VND41.5 million (US$1,853) for carrying 52 people while the driver did not have a driving license.

-- Tan Lao Lo, 24, the prime suspect in the killing of four family members in the northern province of Lao Cai in August, was arrested on Sunday, police confirmed on Monday.

-- The Australian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday started receiving applications for the Australian government’s Direct Aid Program (DAP) grant round 2016-17, worth a total of AU$250,000 ($190,000), with small grants of up to AU$20,000 ($15,000) available to not-for-profit entities to undertake small-scale development projects in central and southern Vietnam.

Business

-- Vietnam’s mergers and acquisitions were at a record high in the first half of this year, with more than $3 billion worth of deals inked in the period.

-- Vietnam’s gasoline price was increased by VND702 a liter on Monday, selling at VND16,070 a liter as the average global price in the last 15 days rose 9.3 percent from the previous fortnight.

-- Airbus will support Vietnam in training aviation personnel, Fabrice Brégier, president and CEO of the French planemaker told reporters in Hanoi on Monday, prior to the arrival of French President Francois Hollande in the Vietnamese capital city.

-- The plans for projects to be developed across Vietnam are being prepared in a way that would hinder, rather than boost, the country’s development, the Ministry of Planning and Investment and the National Assembly Economic Committee said at a meeting to review the Law on Planning on Monday.

Lifestyle

-- South Korean journalist Koh Kyeong-tae, former editor-in-chief of The Hankyoreh newspaper, is poised to inaugurate an exhibition featuring photos of Vietnamese victims killed by South Korean troops in massacres during the American war in Vietnam at the Art Link gallery in Jongno District, Seoul, this Friday.

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