Check out the news you should not miss today, April 11:

Politics -- Visiting Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Margaret Chan was received by Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Hanoi on Monday, suggesting that the country pay more attention to working together with the United Nations body in preventive medicine to prevent diseases and accidents.  Society -- Vien Dong Co. on Monday publicly apologized to and gave US$1,000 in damages to a foreign tourist who tripped over a U-shaped hook the company had left on a sidewalk in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City last week.  -- A new six-lane road, running in a 4.3km stretch parallel to Cong Hoa Street, is scheduled to be built at a cost of VND1.4 trillion ($62.5 million) to reduce congestion in the entrance to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, the municipal transport department said on Monday. -- A man in the northern province of Bac Ninh fatally slashed his four-year-old daughter, attacking his mother and wife with a knife before jumping from the second floor in a botched suicide attempt on Monday.

-- A record 18 people have been killed, whereas 200 have suffered poisoning after drinking methanol-tainted alcohol in only three months.

Business -- Officials in Ho Chi Minh City and the Japanese city of Nagano signed a memorandum of understanding on bilateral cooperation in the latter's Governor Office on Monday, as part of a ten-day visit to Japan of leaders from the Vietnamese megacity.

-- A new high-speed boat service to Con Co Island off the north-central province of Quang Tri is on a trial run at zero-dong fare until the end of this month, when the fare will be set at VND250,000 ($11) per passenger.

Lifestyle

-- A foreign ministry-backed program calling for local artists to donate paintings to decorate 101 Vietnamese embassy, consulate and diplomatic headquarters in other countries have received 68 artworks after one month.Sports -- The 2017 VTV9 - Binh Dien International Volleyball Tournament will run from April 22 to 30 in Tay Ninh, a southern province 100km northwest of Ho Chi Minh City, with strong clubs from China, Thailand and Kazakhstan among the participants, the organizers announced on Monday.

-- Hosts Vietnam will play Myanmar in a 2018 AFC Women's Asian Cup qualification match at 6:00 pm today, April 11, where they need only a draw to secure a berth in the final tournament held in Jordan.

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