What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday received Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Neth Savoeun, who is leading a high-level delegation to attend a ceremony commemorating the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 – 2024) in Vietnam.

Society

-- A 57-year-old man died and dozens of others were hospitalized in the northern Vietnamese province of Thai Binh due to suspected food poisoning after they ate goat blood pudding at pre-wedding parties on Wednesday and Thursday last week, the provincial Department of Health’s food safety sub-department reported on Monday.

-- The military command in Kien Giang Province, southern Vietnam on Monday used two special-use vehicles to supply nearly 50 cubic meters of fresh water to 300 households in a drought- and saline intrusion-hit commune.

-- A fisherman was killed by a lightning strike while he was catching seafood in Quang Ninh Province, located in northern Vietnam, on Monday, a local official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper the same day.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has proposed the municipal administration extend a pilot tour to transport tourists around District 1 and District 4 on open-top double-decker buses until the end of 2025, and expand the tour to District 5, District 6, and Thu Duc City.

-- Three workers died and four others were injured as their tent was buried in a landslide in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam, on Monday afternoon, a local official said the same day.

-- Authorities in Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam are investigating a case in which a female tourist denounced a man offering jet-skiing services for attacking her on Thursday last week and causing her eardrum to rupture.

Business

-- Nguyen Phuoc Thien, chairman of the administration in Dong Thap Province in southern Vietnam, has signed a decision approving an investment of over VND4.6 billion (US$181,992) in piloting the e-commerce commune model in My Xuong Commune, Cao Lanh District until 2025.

World News

-- "Rescue efforts were underway after two people were killed and dozens remained trapped after a multi-storey building under construction collapsed in the South African city of George," Reuters quoted authorities as saying.

-- "Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva asked Congress on Monday to recognize a state of public calamity for the heavy rains that have killed at least 85 people in the country's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul," accoridng to Reuters.

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