Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- During a reception for General Secretary of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party Central Committee and President of Laos Thongloun Sisoulith in Hanoi on Monday, Vietnam's Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong affirmed that the relationship between the two countries always plays a particularly important role and is a top priority in Vietnam's foreign policy.

-- Vietnamese Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son called on countries to support Vietnam's bid for re-election as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council for the 2026-28 tenure at the council’s 55th session in Geneva, Switzerland on Monday.

Society

-- Residents on Monday found a male tourist who got lost in a tourist site in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam ten days earlier, a local official reported.

-- Traffic police officers in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam on Monday promptly rushed a woman lying unconscious on a sidewalk due to a stroke to hospital, thus saving her life.

-- Authorities and residents in a town in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam saved six disabled students from drowning at a local beach on Sunday, a local official said on Monday.

-- The administration in Long Thanh District, Dong Nai Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, has fined a company VND130 million (US$5,275.2) for constructing an over-8,000-square-meter project without any license. The company was also forced to suspend the project pending a formal construction license.

Business

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday received Roland Busch, president and CEO of German-based technology firm Siemens Group, calling on the latter to strengthen the cooperation with Vietnam in multiple sectors, including hi-tech, renewable energy, and metro line development.

Sports

-- Vietnam's U23 football team will play two friendly matches with Tajikistan U23s on March 20 and 23 to warm up for the 2024 AFC U23 Asian Cup finals held in Qatar between April 15 and May 3.

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