Check out the news you should not miss today, September 9

Politics

-- Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Ivica Dacic, Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, in Hanoi on Friday, affirming his country's consistency in the employment of multilateral and multifaceted diplomacy to enhance traditional partnerships with the Balkan state.

-- Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Defence Nguyen Chi Vinh and his South Korean counterpart Suh Choo-suk co-chaired the sixth Vietnam-South Korea defence policy dialogue at deputy ministerial level in Seoul on Friday.

-- Vietnam and Russia look to effectively implement the Vietnam-Eurasian Economic Union Free Trade Agreement to meet the bilateral trade goal of US$10 billion in 2020, according to agreement reached at the 20th meeting of the Vietnam-Russia Intergovernmental Committee for Economic-Commercial and Scientific-Technological Cooperation in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday.

Society

-- Workers at the S&H Vina, which stipulates that employees request leave over family funerals at least three days in advance, contributed to go on strike for the third day on Friday as their demands were not met by the company.

-- Some 130 trees on Kim Ma Street in Hanoi will be relocated or chopped down on September 12 to make space for the Hanoi-Nhon urban railway construction.

-- A new cold spell is forecast to hit northern Vietnam on Sunday, bringing heavy rains to the region.

-- Police in the southern city of Vung Tau said on Friday they have enough ground to prosecute a 77-year-old suspect for raping four different minor girls between 2012 and 2014.

Business

-- The legal proceedings launched against a former deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam on Friday will not affect the country's monetary policy, the central bank said later the same day.

-- Vietnam's rice production is expected to reach 44.1 million metric tons 2017, the Vietnam News Agency quoted the Department of Cultivation under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, as saying on Friday.

--Danish brewer Carlsberg wants to increase its stake in Habeco, one of Vietnam’s biggest brewers, from the current 17 percent to at least 51 percent, the Vietnamese firm's deputy general manager told reporters on Friday.

-- Vietnam's current benchmark VN Index rose 0.56 percent to close at 801.2 points on Friday, passing the 800 point mark for the first time since February 2008.

Lifestyle

-- Four films from Belgium’s Mons International Love Film Festival (FIFA Mons) are being screened free of charge in Hanoi from September 8 to 11 under a joint program organized by the Wallonie-Bruxelles delegation in Vietnam and the National Documentary and Scientific Film Studio.

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