Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnam considers Japan as a long-term and trustworthy strategic partner, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Secretary-General of Japan's National Security Secretariat Akiba Takeo during a meeting in Hanoi on Monday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- It will remain dry and sunny across Vietnam on Tuesday, with a slight chance of showers in some areas, the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting reported.

-- Fire engulfed two houses in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on Monday afternoon, killing a 58-year-old man who suffered from a stroke and was unable to walk.

-- Police in the Mekong Delta Province of Kien Giang confirmed on Monday they had initiated legal proceedings against a kindergarten teacher on suspicion of beating a four-year-old boy.

-- The military command in the Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh said on Monday they had handled a 150-kilogram wartime bomb that was previously found by local residents.

-- Officers in north-central Nghe An Province have arrested a truck driver after his vehicle crashed into a motorbike and killed a woman and her two children on Monday morning.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday inspected the headquarters and multiple branches of pawnshop chain F88, which specializes in lending money in the form of mortgages of cars, motorbikes, phones, and laptops.

-- The People’s Court in Hanoi on Monday sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for causing a house fire that killed his girlfriend in late 2020.

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