Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien, Vietnamese Deputy Minister of National Defense, and Japan Director General for Defense Policy Kano Koji on Monday co-chaired the 11th Vietnam-Japan defence policy dialogue in Fukuoka.

Society

-- The Vietnamese government has set the e-commerce sector's growth target at 20-22 percent in 2025.

-- A low-pressure trough near southern Vietnam is causing off-season rain in the evenings over the next three days in the region, according to the Southern Regional Hydro-Meteorological Center.

-- The government has proposed developing the Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong railway project in northern Vietnam under the public investment model, at an estimated cost of some VND203.231 trillion (US$8 billion).

-- Dong Nai Province in southern Vietnam aims to train and support about 4,800 local workers in finding employment at Long Thanh International Airport, which is under construction, by 2030, according to the provincial administration’s decision approved on Monday.

-- A video showing an ambulance continuously signaling for a car stopping at a red light to make way on a street in north-central Nghe An Province but the car driver did not yield began circulating on social media on Monday and has garnered significant public attention.

-- The government has proposed 10 special mechanisms and policies to the law-making National Assembly for a nuclear power plant in Ninh Thuan Province, located in south-central Vietnam, with the goal of putting the project into operation within the next five years.

Business

-- The HPG stock of Hoa Phat Group, the largest steel producer in Vietnam, ended the session on Monday down 4.7 percent to reach VND25,400 ($1) per share, the lowest over the past five months, and its market capitalization plummeted over VND8 trillion ($315.2 million) after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would introduce 25 percent tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the U.S..

World News

-- “Marriages in China plummeted by a fifth last year, the biggest drop on record, despite manifold efforts by authorities to encourage young couples to wed and have children to boost the country's declining population,” Reuters reported.

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