Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held separate meetings with former Japanese counterparts Fukuda Yasuo and Suga Yoshihide on Sunday and Monday, respectively, during his trip to Japan for the Commemorative Summit for the 50th Year of ASEAN-Japan Friendship and Cooperation and bilateral activities.

Society

-- A 44-year-old man from Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam was arrested on Monday night for physically assaulting a 14-year-old male student over a conflict between the student and his son, a local official said the same day.

-- A tractor trailer bearing a Laotian license plate fell into an abyss on an expressway connecting Da Nang City and Thua Thien-Hue Province in central Vietnam on Monday, injuring two people in the vehicle.

-- Two 10th-grade students in Quang Binh Province, north-central Vietnam on Saturday last week spotted a mobile phone and handed it over to the local police to return to its owner, who was later found to be a British tourist, police officers said on Monday.

-- A person was injured after a four-seater car that was reversing at high speed on a street in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam plowed into three motorbikes and another car on Monday. The car driver was a woman.

-- Dozens of Hatinh langurs, highly threatened Old World monkeys, have been found on two mountains in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam, according to Three Monkeys Wildlife Conservancy, a dedicated team that protects and conserves Vietnam's wildlife and habitats.

World News

-- “The Reykjanes volcano in southwest Iceland erupted on Monday, spewing lava and smoke into the air, after weeks of intense earthquake activity,” Reuters reported, citing Iceland's Meteorological Office.

-- Seven countries including Germany, the Netherlands and France pledged on Monday to eliminate CO2-emitting power plants from their electricity systems by 2035, according to Reuters.

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