Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- A high-ranking military delegation of Vietnam is taking part in the 9th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that opened in Beijing on Monday under the theme of ‘Maintaining International Order and Promoting Peace in the Asia-Pacific.’

Society

-- Police in Vung Tau, a popular beach city in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau, caught 12 men and four women using drugs inside a rented villa on Monday morning.

-- Two tenth-grade students in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong were killed after crashing their motorbike into a truck on Monday afternoon.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court on Monday sentenced a former police officier to three years and six months in prison for extorting a director of a local bank branch in late 2017.

Education

-- The administration of the northern city of Hai Phong is mulling over offering free tuition for all students in kindergartens, primary school, and middle schools across the city.

Lifestyle

-- Ho Chi Minh City has been ranked fourth among the world's 50 best cities for street food, according to a new survey by CEOWorld, a Untied States-based business magazine. About 92,000 business travellers and 1,400 corporate travel agents from over 86 countries and territories took part in the survey.

-- Vietnamese photographer Thai Phien has opened an art gallery named ‘Hon da’ (Rock’s soul), which features his nude art photographs printed on many types of rocks. The exhibition will run until October 26 at the Fine Arts Association of Ho Chi Minh City.

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