Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh landed in Vientiane, Laos on Tuesday to attend the fourth Mekong River Commission Summit, which is slated for Wednesday.

Society

-- A power line was cut by a falling tree, electrocuting three people in a family in Binh Duong, southern Vietnam on Tuesday evening.

-- The Hanoi Department of Tourism has required travel firms not to bring tourists to the famous trackside café street in Ba Dinh District, where authorities have taken drastic measures to prevent vendors from selling beverages and tourists from filming and photographing near rails. 

-- The People’s Committee of Hai Chau District in downtown Da Nang City, central Vietnam on Tuesday called on local eateries and restaurants to offer free toilet service to residents and tourists.

-- A Thai man was hospitalized after climbing over the railing and jumping from the third floor of Terminal T2 at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon.

-- Authorities in Long Xuyen City of An Giang Province in southern Vietnam said on Tuesday that they were about to have 400 people join the live load test of the Nguyen Thai Hoc footbridge on Wednesday. The provincial People's Committee changed the plan to using another type of dead load later over a public backlash.

-- The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Ben Tre Province, southern Vietnam has vowed to strictly deal with the constant destruction of coastal forests in Ba Tri District.

-- Rains are in the forecast for several parts of southern Vietnam and downpours are expected in some places in the Central Highlands region on Wednesday, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting.

Business

-- Vietnam’s consumer price index increased 4.18 percent year on year in the first quarter of 2023, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

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