Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A man intentionally drove into his wife, necessitating her hospitalization, before locking himself in his pickup truck and burning it down to commit suicide in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Sunday, according to police.

-- Lightning killed one man and injured another at a river dike project in northern Thai Binh Province on Sunday.

-- The People’s Committee of Hai Phong City commenced the construction of 10 more social housing apartment buildings near Trang Due Industrial Park in An Duong District, comprising a total of 2,538 units, on Sunday.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the ground-breaking ceremony of the first phase of the Tuyen Quang-Ha Giang Expressway project as part of his visit to the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang on Sunday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Business

-- Vietnam has invested nearly US$316.4 million abroad in the first five months of this year, equivalent to 93.5 percent of the figure recorded in the same period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Education

-- A team of eight Vietnamese students sat for this year’s Asian Physics Olympiad, scooping four bronze medals, according to the results announced on Sunday by the contest organizers.

Lifestyle

-- Vietnamese-French filmmaker Tran Anh Hung won the best director prize at the 76th Cannes International Film Festival for ‘La passion de Dodin Bouffant’ (The Pot-au-Feu) on Saturday (France time).

Sports

-- Forty riders competed in the final race of the 2023 VTV Cab - Off-road motorcycle racing tournament in northern Son La Province on Sunday.

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