Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop is paying a visit to Vietnam from May 26 to 28 to inaugurate the Cao Lanh Bridge in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and co-chair the Australia-Vietnam Foreign Ministers’ Meeting. 

Society

-- Two freight trains collided with each other at Nui Thanh Station in the central province of Quang Nam at around 4:30 pm on Saturday, causing many cars to topple, while a lot of goods were thrown off the trains.

-- The chief of the police station in Phong Loc Commune, located in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa, has been temporarily suspended from work after being caught spending time with a married woman at a local motel.

-- Leksii Vackvasaki, a 36-year-old Russian national, was arrested by police in Nha Trang, a resort city in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, on Saturday for damaging an ATM and attempting to steal information from it.

-- A car was running at high speed along a street in the northern province of Thai Binh when it crashed into a motorcycle on Friday, causing the motorcyclist to be thrown off the roadside, officers confirmed on Saturday. The victim was seriously injured and is being treated at the hospital.

-- Police in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau are hunting for a young man who stabbed a primary school teacher at her house on Saturday afternoon. The victim sustained a severe wound in her neck and is being treated at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City.

Business

-- The construction of two major hospitals, whose investment totals VND9 trillion (US$396 million), in the northern province of Ha Nam has been halted for the past 18 months and is at risk of becoming loss-making projects.

Lifestyle

-- The Ravolution Music Festival by Jetstar (RMFbyJETSTAR) heated up Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday night with a series of EDM (electronic dance music) performances from local and foreign DJs.

-- The second night of the biennial Da Nang International Fireworks Festival (DIFF 2018) lit up the central city with performances from France and the United States on Saturday.

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