Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc joined talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Monday as part of his attendance at the G20 Summit and ongoing visit to Japan.

Society

-- A tropical depression is heading toward northern Vietnam and is expected to strengthen into a storm within the next 24 hours, bringing heavy downpours to north and north-central provinces and posing high risks of flashfloods and landslides, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

-- Police in the south-central province of Binh Thuan are hunting for Nguyen Viet Huy, 33, and Nguyen Van Nung, 37, two especially dangerous suspects who had escaped from a local detention center on Sunday morning.

-- A power outage occurred at multiple neighborhoods in Son Tra District, located in the central city of Da Nang on Monday night after a fire broke out at a major substation, according to the municipal utility.

-- Officers in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa have arrested a 32-year-old man for establishing a total of ten dummy companies to carry out illegal sale of tax invoices since 2017.

-- Competent authorities are still unable to find the nine fishermen who had gone missing after a cargo ship crashed into a fishing boat off the northern city of Hai Phong on Friday afternoon.

Business

-- A ceremony was held in Tokyo on Monday to officially recognize Vietnam’s budget carrier Vietjet Air as a member of the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren).

-- An investment promotion conference is scheduled to be organized in the central province of Quang Ngai on Tuesday with the attendance of government leaders, representative of various sectors, and about 500 investors, according to the provincial administration.

-- A report of the World Bank on Monday highlighted that rapid expansion has brought Vietnam’s tourism industry to a tipping point in its development, where continued growth, if not well managed, could have adverse economic, environmental, and social impacts.

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