Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense Hoang Xuan Chien and his South Korean counterpart Kim Seon Ho co-chaired the 11th Vietnam-South Korea defense policy dialogue in Hanoi on Tuesday, during which the participants reviewed the outcomes of both countries’ cooperation in the field, discussed issues of mutual concern, and reached a consensus on their cooperation plan in the upcoming time.

Society

-- Magnificent fireworks displays will light up the skies in Hanoi in celebration of the 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese capital’s Liberation Day (October 10, 1954-2024), according to an announcement released by the municipal administration on Tuesday.

-- A middle school security guard in Ho Chi Minh City captured a changeable hawk-eagle, scientifically known as Nisaetus cirrhatus, on the school campus and voluntarily handed over the bird to the city’s forest protection officers on Tuesday.

-- Police have detained a 44-year-old cement factory employee for his alleged involvement in a deadly workplace accident that killed seven workers and injured three others in Yen Bai Province, northern Vietnam on Monday.

-- The transport authority of Ho Chi Minh City will impose certain restrictions on vehicular movement along multiple downtown streets between 7:00 am and 10:00 am on Sunday this week in order to serve a marathon in celebration of Reunification Day (April 30). 

Business

-- Vietnam has become the biggest supplier of rice to Singapore for the first time, shipping some US$36.15 million worth of the grain to the city-state in the first quarter, up nearly 81 percent against the same period last year, according to the Vietnam Trade Office in Singapore.

World News

-- Canada and its Five Eyes Alliance partners are working on putting forward a response to tackle the price manipulation of critical metals, Canada's Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

-- The Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday it is investigating a union's claims that Boeing retaliated against two employees who in 2022 insisted the planemaker re-evaluate prior engineering work on 777 and 787 jets, according to Reuters.

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