Have a nice Sunday!

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong on Saturday received Lao National Assembly Chairwoman Pany Yathotou, who is partaking in activities held in commemoration of the 55^th anniversary of the two nations’ diplomatic ties.

Society

-- On early Saturday, a four-seater car plunged into a stream in Dinh Hoa District in the northern province of Thai Nguyen, causing a 33-year-old man and his preschool son to drown and leaving his wife and their other son missing.

-- Two teenage cousins drowned on Saturday afternoon after falling into an irrigation reservoir in Di Linh District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.   

-- Doctors at a general hospital in the central province of Quang Nam on Saturday removed a coin from the esophagus of a five-year-old girl.

Business

-- Representatives of budget carrier Vietjet revealed on Friday they had borrowed US$464 million from the German Operating Aircraft Leasing, a globally active aircraft lessor, to purchase four A321 aircraft.

-- Authorities in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho have approved a plan to hold the Xanh Tu Te (Decent Greens) market at a park in Ninh Kieu District every Sunday, starting September. The market has won over a broad clientele in Ho Chi Minh City who come for quality farm items from across the country and to meet farmers in person.

-- Tourists in Ho Chi Minh City will enjoy substantial relaxation of visa requirements to visit South Korea from Monday (July 10) on, as stipulated in a memorandum of understanding recently signed between the municipal Tourism Promotion Center and the Republic of Korea’s General Department of Tourism.  

Education

-- Around 8,000 high school graduates and parents in Hanoi and neighboring provinces took part in a workshop held in the capital on Saturday to provide them with orientations on the choice of universities and colleges. A similar event will take place today in Ho Chi Minh City.

Lifestyle

-- Hundreds of tourists and residents in Can Tho City gathered on Saturday morning for a dragon boat race as part of a Cai Rang Floating Market cultural festival, which wraps up today in Cai Rang District.