Good morning from Vietnam! Take a look at this news summary to be updated on everything about Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnam is readying senior personnel to take over the leadership at the Politburo and the Secretariat of the Communist Party Central Committee.

-- The Ministry of National Defense has had two new four-star generals and appointed four new deputy ministers. The ministry now has ten deputy ministers.

Society

-- Authorities in the central province of Quang Ngai have said they will select domestic consultants for the architectural planning and construction of the Ly Son island district. Before a foreign consulting firm was about to be chosen and the provincial authorities discovered problems with the unclear origin of the company.

-- Vietnam had 43,000 cases of dengue fever, with 28 resulting deaths, in the first nine months of this year.

Business

-- The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs is recruiting nursing staff and nurse aides to work for hospitals and clinics in Japan.

-- The total construction cost of Ho Chi Minh City’s second metro route from Ben Thanh Market in District 1 to the Tham Luong Bridge in District 12 will reach US$2.07 billion, instead of $1.34 billion as planned before, according to the Asian Development Bank.

-- Vietnam has officially entered a new ‘playground’ when negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement concluded yesterday night and the Southeast Asian country was among 12 member states to approve the deal.

-- The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has suggested that domestic airlines offer competitive transport prices for the export of Vietnamese agricultural products.

-- Vietnam is forecast to reach a growth rate of 6.2 percent this year, instead of 6 percent as before, according to the World Bank.

Sports

-- The Vietnamese national football team will take on Iraq and Thailand on October 8 and 13, respectively, in Hanoi in the Asian qualifiers of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.