Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, August 27.

Politics

-- Vietnam’s State President Tran Dai Quang arrived in Bandar Seri Begawan on Friday afternoon, beginning a three-day state-level visit, aiming to deepen international relations and reinforce the friendship and multi-faceted cooperation with Brunei.

Society

-- An hours-long downpour in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday evening inundated the Tan Son Nhat International Airport, sending numerous of flights to delays or cancellations as the aircraft could not land in or take off.

-- Multiple streets across Ho Chi Minh City were heavily flooded, causing hours-long congestion, following a heavy rainfall on Friday.

-- Three teenager students drowned when they were swimming at a dam in the north-central province of Ha Tinh on Friday.

-- A maiden HIV self-testing service was launched in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, allowing people to perform a HIV rapid diagnostic test with the result available within 20 minutes.

-- The costly administrative center of the central city of Da Nang will not be relocated, at least in the next decade, the municipal authorities said Friday.

-- The developer of the Phu My Hung urban area in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City has called for help as local residents are suffering foul smell brought from what is said is a nearby large landfill.

Business

-- An increasingly extensive participation in international economic integration activities has helped expand Vietnam’s foreign trade in recent times, officials pointed out at a conference on the country’s international integration in Hanoi on Friday.

-- Nearly 300 Chinese nationals have been found working without a permit at the Lee & Man paper plant project in the southern province of Hau Giang.

-- Malaysia-based Malindo Air has apologized to Vietnam for listing Hanoi in the same category with the Chinese capital city of Beijing in the August 2016 issue of its in-flight magazine MalindoMag, causing misunderstanding that it considers Hanoi part of China.

Lifestyle

-- The headquarters of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Hanoi received Friday a recognition of being a national relic site.

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