Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- A Lao delegation led by Prime Minister Sonexay Siphandone visited Tan Cang - Cat Lai Port of the Saigon Newport Corporation under the Vietnam People’s Navy on Sunday.

Society

-- Heavy rain on Sunday flooded many roads in Tuy Hoa City, Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam, disrupting traffic and damaging newly planted crops in neighboring districts.

-- Former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong was accused of wrongdoing for creating conditions that allowed businesses to benefit from preferential electricity prices, resulting in losses of more than VND1 trillion (US$39.2 million) to state-run power utility Vietnam Electricity (EVN).

-- Police in Da Nang City announced on Sunday that they had dismantled a transnational gambling ring, which served over 10,000 gamblers and involved transactions totaling more than VND100 billion ($3.92 million).

-- In 2024, Ho Chi Minh City’s population was 9.5 million, one million more than Hanoi’s 8.6 million, with a population density 1.7 times higher, at 4,544 people per square kilometer compared to the capital’s 2,585 people per square kilometer, according to the General Statistics Office’s 2024 mid-term census.

-- Vietnam’s fertility rate in 2024 was 1.91 children per woman, the lowest in history, marking the second consecutive year it has fallen below two children per woman, according to the same census.

-- Military medical staff on Song Tu Tay Island in Truong Sa District, Khanh Hoa Province successfully treated six fishermen who were poisoned after eating red snapper while fishing at sea on Sunday.

Sports

-- “Liverpool took another step towards the Premier League title with a 2-0 win at Manchester City after talisman Mohamed Salah scored their first goal and set up Dominik Szoboszlai for the second as they went 11 points clear at the top on Sunday,” Reuters reported.

World News

-- “Pope Francis, battling double pneumonia, remains in a critical condition and his prognosis is still guarded because of the 'complexity' of his clinical condition," Reuters quoted the Vatican as saying on Sunday.

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