Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- The 15th National Assembly’s seventh session is set for the fourth working week starting Monday, with a focus on legislative activities.

Society

-- Sunday night’s rain and strong winds resulted in numerous large trees falling, damaging several cars on the streets of Hanoi.

-- Four people died in a fire at a five-story house on Dinh Cong Ha Street in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi on Sunday evening.

-- A cave exploration team has discovered a peculiar creature resembling a starfish, with a milky white main body featuring branching tendrils extending several centimeters in various directions, topped by secondary tendrils approximately one hand high in Hung Cave, within the strictly protected area of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh Province, north-central Vietnam.

-- Police in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam on Sunday announced they had collaborated with authorities to apprehend an ethnic Mong couple transporting 30kg of drugs southwards for distribution in exchange for VND200 million (US$7,857).

Lifestyle

-- The estimated number of visitors who attended the Nha Trang Sea Tourism Festival 2024 in Nha Trang City, Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam reached nearly 400,000 as the four-day extravaganza concluded on Sunday evening.

-- Renowned Vietnamese painter Nguyen Phan Chanh’s (1892-1984) oil painting ‘Les Chanteuses de Campagne’ recently fetched €1,020,000 at Sotheby’s Arts d’Asie sale.

Sports

-- A powerful first-half header by Jude Bellingham sent England on the way to a successful launch of their Euro 2024 campaign with a 1-0 win over Serbia on Sunday that began confidently but saw the Three Lions clinging on for the points by the end, Reuters reported.

-- Denmark’s recent habit of superb attacking and suspect defending came back to haunt them in their Group C Euro 2024 opener against Slovenia as they once again threw away a lead to end up with a 1-1 draw on Sunday in a game they should have won, Reuters reported.

-- Substitute Wout Weghorst snatched an 83rd-minute winner as the Netherlands fought their way back to beat Poland 2-1 in the Group D opener at the European Championship on Sunday, leaving it late to win a contest they dominated, Reuters reported.

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