Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- President of the Republic of Bulgaria Rumen Radev and his entourage visited the Vietnam Military History Museum in Hanoi on Monday. The Bulgarian president is in Vietnam for an official visit until Thursday.

-- Cambodian King Preah Bat Samdech Preah Boromneat Norodom Sihamoni will pay a state visit to Vietnam from November 28 to 29 at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday. 

-- Nguyen Thi Minh Nguyet, spouse of State President Luong Cuong, and Desislava Radeva, spouse of President Rumen Radev, on Monday visited the Vietnam-Bulgaria Kindergarten in Hanoi. The kindergarten was established on December 23, 1981 as a gift from the Bulgarian Women’s Union to Vietnamese children.

Society

-- Authorities in Hanoi are investigating an incident in which four members of a family died with three of them perishing in an irrigation canal and one in hospital. The four and a motorbike were found in the irrigation canal on Sunday night, a local official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday.

-- The Party Civil Affairs Committee of the administration in Ho Chi Minh City has agreed to use the city’s budget for the Ben Thanh - Tham Luong metro line No. 2 project. The 11-kilometer metro line needs an estimated investment of some VND47.8 trillion (US$1.9 billion). 

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies on Monday morning coordinated with Singapore's Chandler Institute of Governance to open a training course on the effective management of the public sector.

-- Vietnam’s central region, specifically Quang Tri Province, Thua Thien-Hue Province, and Da Nang City, are forecast to experience heavy downpours until Thursday this week due to the influence of cold air, according to the National Center for Hydrometeorological Forecasting.

-- Vietnamese laborers’ average monthly income reached VND8.5 million ($334.2) each in January-September this year, up VND611,000 ($24) year on year, the Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs reported.

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