HANOI, July 16 (Reuters) - These are some of the leading stories in the official Vietnamese press on Monday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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VIETNAM NEWS

-- The U.S. hospital ship Peleliu and its 1,400 crew began a 10-day mission to provide humanitarian assistance after docking at Danang's Tien Sa port.

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VIETNAM INVESTMENT REVIEW

-- Foreign fund managers are urging the Vietnamese government to push ahead with its state-owned enterprise IPO plan this year to catch good prices. The government has asked relevant bodies recently to schedule the IPOs carefully to avoid a share glut.

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SAIGON GIAI PHONG

-- Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong chaired a meeting in Ho Chi Minh City to resolve the situation in which people of many southern provinces gathered in large groups in the city to lodge complaints, 85 percent of them about land disputes.

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LAO DONG

-- The Finance Ministry has provided guarantees for national carrier Vietnam Airlines to lease two Airbus A321 planes for delivery this month and in November.

-- Vietindebank, Vietnam Airlines, state oil group Petrovietnam and Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications group will form a share-holding company to lease aircraft. It is expected to buy four Boeing 787 planes with the first delivery in 2015, Vietindebank Chief Executive Tran Bac Ha said.

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TUOI TRE

-- Hotel rates in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have gone up 50 percent due to room shortages. Vietnam has only 25 five-star hotels.

-- Merrill Lynch warned investors about the low level of liquidity of shares in Vietnamese listed companies.

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THANH NIEN

-- Six people drowned after their boat sank in the central province of Quang Nam.

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THOI BAO KINH TE VIETNAM

-- The number of Russian tourists arriving in Vietnam in the first half rose 65 percent from a year ago to 25,000.

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