Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is in Hiroshima, Japan to attend an expanded summit of the Group of Seven (G7) countries, suggested the G7 countries keep supporting developing countries by providing green finance and backing the development of strategic infrastructure systems, especially traffic infrastructure.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday met with U.S. President Joe Biden and his counterparts from the UK, Germany, Australia, Italy, Canada, and India on the occasion of his trip to attend an expanded summit of the Group of Seven (G7) countries in Hiroshima, Japan.

Society

-- Four elementary school students drowned on Saturday while bathing in a canal leading to Song Quao Lake in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam.

-- Three more people in Ho Chi Minh City have been hospitalized due to botulinum poisoning after two of them, who are siblings, ate cha lua (Vietnamese pork sausage) and the remaining man downed fermented fish kept for a long time. Earlier, three siblings contracted botulism after eating cha lua in the city.

-- Nearly one-third of women in Vietnam have no time for entertainment in a day, according to a survey conducted on 6,000 respondents by the World Bank Vietnam.

Business

-- Vietnam’s economic growth rate will double the global rate, International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva said during a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hiroshima, Japan on Saturday on the occasion of their attendance at an expanded summit of the Group of Seven (G7) countries.

Sports

-- Manchester City were confirmed as Premier League champions for the fifth time in six seasons on Saturday without even having to kick a ball after second-placed Arsenal's challenge ended in defeat away at Nottingham Forest, Reuters reported.

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