Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Vo Van Thuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue on Monday extended condolences to Chinese leaders over the recent passing of former Chinese Premier Li Keqiang.

Society

-- Police in Tan Chau District, Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam on Monday said that they were investigating an incident in which a woman, her six-year-old child, and a young man drowned after their boat capsized on a local river on Monday.

-- Police in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam kept a 34-year-old man with suspected mental illness in custody as he stabbed his older brother and father to death and seriously injured his mother on Monday, a leader of the provincial police said the same day.

Business

-- The Long Son Petrochemicals Complex project carrying a price tag of over US$5 billion in Ba Ria – Vung Tau Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, is expected to operate on a trial basis from next month and be put into commercial operation early next year, its investor informed on Monday.

-- The Vietnam Oil and Gas Group and its partners started to execute the Block B – O Mon gas-to-power value chain project at a ceremony in Hanoi on Monday with the attendance of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Lifestyle

-- A 75-year-old woman residing in southern Long An Province has got a bachelor's degree in pharmaceutical medicine from the Nam Can Tho University in the namesake southern city following her promise to her late husband 35 years ago.

World News

-- The United States has started bulk buying Japanese seafood to supply its military there in response to China's ban on such products imposed after Tokyo released treated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, according to Reuters.

-- Argentina captain Lionel Messi won a record-extending eighth Ballon d'Or for the best player in the world on Monday, beating Norway's UEFA player of the year and treble winner Erling Haaland of Manchester City to the prestigious prize, Reuters reported.

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