Biden highlights business deals and pays respects to McCain in Vietnam

Joe Biden visits the John McCain memorial in Hanoi (AP)

US President Joe Biden has closed a visit to Vietnam by highlighting new business deals and partnerships between the two countries and paying respects at a memorial honouring the late American senator John McCain, who endured a lengthy incarceration during the Vietnam War.

Mr Biden met with Prime Minister Phạm Minh Chinh, who also accompanied the President as he dropped by a meeting of American and Vietnamese business leaders.