Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of other ASEAN countries and partners at the 25th ASEAN+3 (China, the Republic of Korea, Japan) Summit and other summits with India and Australia in Phnom Penh on Saturday.

-- PM Pham Minh Chinh and U.S. President Joe Biden discussed the two countries’ comprehensive partnership during a meeting on the sidelines of the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits in Phnom Penh on Saturday.

Society

-- Rains are expected to occur in southern Vietnam on Sunday afternoon and evening due to the influence of a trough, the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting reported.

-- A 48-year-old man from central Quang Nam Province set himself on fire following an argument with other family members on Saturday. The fire was later put out by local residents, but he suffered serious burns.

-- A 29-year-old man from northern Quang Ninh Province turned himself in on Saturday after murdering his neighbor with a knife over their conflict that occurred a month ago.

-- Residents in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City have handed over a rare python measuring three meters long and weighing 10 kilograms to competent authorities after catching it near a local canal.

-- Police in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang confirmed on Saturday they were hunting for the driver of a tractor-trailer in a hit-and-run that killed a 56-year-old woman earlier the same day.

Business

-- Vietnam has been removed from the US's monetary manipulation monitoring list, the Vietnam News Agency quoted the State Bank of Vietnam as saying on Saturday.

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