Check out what is in the news today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on Monday for a delegation of leaders of agriculture ministries attending the fourth Global Conference of the One Planet Network’s Sustainable Food System Program, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

-- The Vietnam Fisheries Society has voiced its objection to China’s unilateral fishing ban in the East Vietnam Sea, including the waters of Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, and demanded the northern neighbor to immediately terminate the ban.

Society

-- Customers facing difficulties in production, business, and consumption will have their loan payment deadlines extended by a year, Dao Minh Tu, deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday.

-- A man in Long An Province, southern Vietnam reportedly drank pesticides in an attempt to commit suicide after allegedly stabbing the owner of a local grocery store, who is his acquaintance, to death on Monday.

-- The Ministry of Construction will authorize localities to approve and announce a list of social housing projects entitled to a credit package worth VND120 trillion (US$5.1 billion) launched by the government.

-- More than 1,100 heads and deputy heads of Vietnamese Party and State agencies were handled for their involvement in corruption cases between 2009 and 2020, according to a report by the government.

Business

-- Local credit institutions have been allowed to buy unlisted corporate bonds within 12 months of the issuance, according to a circular issued by the State Bank of Vietnam on Monday. Earlier, banks were only allowed to acquire unlisted corporate bonds 12 months after the bonds were issued.

World News

-- Two explosions in a counter-terrorism ammunition depot in northwest Pakistan killed at least 13 people and wounded over 50 on Monday, Reuters reported, citing local police.

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