Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held a reception for Japanese Minister of Defense Minoru Kihara in Hanoi on Tuesday.

-- A meeting of key leaders was held in Hanoi on Tuesday to evaluate July performance and outline major tasks for August, under the chair of Vietnam’s Party General Secretary and State President To Lam.

Society

-- A cargo ship collided with a ferry on a branch of the Tien River in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang, causing a mini truck and several people to fall into the river and injuring one man on Tuesday.

-- A recent viral video on social media shows people angrily intervening to protect a young woman performing a statue act on Hai Ba Trung Walking Street in Hue City, Thua Thien-Hue Province, central Vietnam, after she was subject to rude comments from a man.

-- Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee, Tran Sy Thanh, requested during an inspection on Tuesday that the Nhon-Hanoi metro project, the second metro line in the capital city, commence commercial operation on Thursday instead of the proposed Friday.

-- Muong Thanh Group, a well-known Vietnamese contractor, has dismantled 86 apartments in a high-rise building in Da Nang City that failed to conform to approved designs, while petitioning to retain 78 apartments in other illegally built sections of the same project, according to the municipal Department of Construction.

-- Police in Thanh Hoa Province, north-central Vietnam, announced on Tuesday they have recently collaborated with relevant agencies to dismantle a transnational drug trafficking operation, arresting four suspects and seizing 34 kg of crystal meth.

-- The People’s Court of Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam on Tuesday sentenced a 37-year-old local man to death for purchasing and intending to sell five bricks of drugs from Nghe An Province.

-- Vietnam’s state-run lottery company Vietlott announced that the American-style Mega 6/55 jackpot draw held on Tuesday resulted in a customer winning over VND228.6 billion (US$9.1 million).

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