Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on Tuesday for Slovenian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Tanja Fajon.

Society

-- Authorities in Da Nang City, central Vietnam have required that all decorative and advertising lighting be turned off after 8:00 pm to save electricity.

-- A video clip has recently surfaced on social media of a man, appearing to be a foreigner, vandalizing the coiling door of a beverage shop in Ho Chi Minh City with graffiti.

-- Ho Chi Minh City-based travel company Ben Thanh Tourist signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the development of a virtual reality light theme park project, planned to be located in a 60,000-square-meter ancient pine forest in a tourist area in Ngu Hanh Son District, Da Nang with two South Korean partners on Tuesday.

-- A sixth-grade boy successfully rescued two younger children struggling in a stream in Gia Lai Province, located in the Central Highlands region, over the weekend, a local official said on Tuesday.

-- An Giang General Hospital in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang said on Tuesday that its doctors managed to save a three-year-old girl, who was severely mauled by a dog, causing her intestines to protrude and leaving her in a severe head trauma.

Business

-- Shipping service GrabExpress from ride-hailing firm Grab and Vietnamese electric scooter start-up Selex Motors conducted official trials of electric delivery motorcycles in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday. The initiative includes the establishment of 24 automated battery exchange stations for GrabExpress drivers across the city. 

Lifestyle

-- The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City is set to open a ‘book garden,' an outdoor academic space offering more than 1,000 books, this week.

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