Read what is in the news in Vietnam today: 

Politics

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong accepted the invitation of Australian Labor Party and Prime Minister of Australia Anthony Albanese to pay an official visit to Australia as a guest of his country’s government at a reception in Hanoi on Sunday.

Society

-- The Department of Health of Khanh Hoa Province in south-central Vietnam on Sunday announced the upcoming opening of the new 200-bed Yersin Nha Trang General Hospital at the end of this month.

-- Lightning strike killed a married couple on their way home from the fields in Khanh Hoa Province on Sunday afternoon.

-- Many drivers and commuters have complained about the absence of restrooms along the Da Nang-Quang Ngai Expressway in central Vietnam.

Business

-- The Vietnamese Trade Office in Singapore is working to promote the export of Vietnamese fruits, particularly longan and lychee, to the island country, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Vietnam’s index of industrial production increased by 2.2 percent in May against the previous month, according to the General Statistics Office.

Lifestyle

-- Swiss watch company Christophe Claret has introduced a design paying homage to the Trung Sisters, or Hai Ba Trung, two Vietnamese heroines of the first century.

Sports

-- The Vietnamese delegation of disabled athletes won a total of 42 medals and set three new records on Sunday, the first day of competition at the 12th ASEAN Para Games in Cambodia.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Australian counterpart Anthony Albanese visited and engaged in an exchange with the national women’s football teams of the two countries in Hanoi on Sunday.

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