Politics
-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc arrived in Romania on Sunday for a three-day official visit.
Society
-- Temperatures are forecast to rise up to 38 degrees Celsius in southern Vietnam on Monday.
-- Two elementary school students drowned on Sunday in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on Sunday.
-- Tourists crowded the beach in Vung Tau, a resort city 120km from Ho Chi Minh City, on Sunday, when Vietnam enjoyed a national holiday – the Hung Kings’ Festival.
-- Police have arrested five people suspected of transporting 26.6kg of illegal drugs from Cambodia into Vietnam.
-- A group of young people from Ho Chi Minh City came to the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Sunday to join hands with local students in cleaning up a festival dedicated to traditional cakes and dishes in order to raise awareness of environmental protection.
-- British authorities have charged four people with human trafficking after 29 Vietnamese were found in a van pulled over by police in the UK on Friday last week.
Lifestyle
-- The Bui Vien Walking Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City has been turned into a “drinking street” as beer stores are putting plastic tables and stools on the entirety of the roadway, creating a messy scene in the neighborhood dubbed “Westerners’ street.”