Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Developing stable, sustainable, and long-term relations with China is a consistent approach, an objective requirement, a strategic choice, and a top priority of Vietnam's foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, and diversification of external ties, Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said during a meeting with Chinese Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday as part of the former’s trip to the northern neighbor to attend the 15th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions.

Society

-- Police in Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam on Wednesday helped a 15-year-old Chinese boy who was abandoned in the province by his father in 2019 return to his homeland.

-- Vietnam handed over one set of remains of an American serviceman who died during the war in Vietnam that ended in 1975 at a ceremony at Da Nang International Airport in the namesake central city on Wednesday.

-- Police in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam helped a South Korean tourist find his family members as he got lost in a mountainous district while traveling in Hoi An City by motorbike, officers said on Wednesday.

-- Lobsters and fish farmed by 88 households in Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam have died en masse over the past few days, causing losses of over VND7.3 billion (US$285,812), a local official reported on Wednesday.

Business

-- A Vietnamese company on Wednesday launched its ride-hailing service called Cudidi with commitments of offering the lowest prices in Vietnam, not collecting commissions from drivers, and providing customers with accident insurance at no charge.

-- Deposits made by individual customers at banks in Vietnam reached an all-time high of nearly VND6,700 trillion ($262.9 billion) as of March this year, according to data released by the State Bank of Vietnam.

-- Tourism's total contribution to Vietnam's economy, including both direct and indirect amounts, will exceed 15 percent of its GDP this year, according to a newly-released report by VinaCapital, an investment and asset management firm based in Vietnam.

Education

-- Ben Tre College in the namesake southern Vietnamese province was found to have granted graduation degrees to 534 students between 2019 and 2023 against the law, as these students have not got certificates of national defense and security education as required.

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