Read what’s in the news today.

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs held an Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) flag hoisting ceremony in Hanoi on Thursday morning to mark the 52nd anniversary of the ten-country bloc.

Society

-- Rescuers worked through the night on Thursday to find the only missing victim buried in rubble in a scaffold collapse that injured at least seven people at the construction of a filling station in An Duong District in the northern city of Hai Phong earlier the same day.

-- Locals on Phu Quoc Island, off the coast of the southern province of Kien Giang, had to run to safer places on Thursday night as rain-caused flood hit the locality.

-- The Ho Chi MInh City transport department has installed surveillance cameras at six driving centers in the southern metropolis to ensure training quality and tackle cheating.

Business

-- Representatives of the Polish Embassy in Vietnam and many businesses from the Central European country participated in a ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday to kick off a three-year campaign to promote Poland’s high-quality agricultural produce in the Southeast Asian country.

-- Vietjet will cancel flights from Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to Taiwan today, August 9, due to the impacts of typhoon Lekima, the budget carrier announced on Thursday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City administration on Thursday announced plans to step up efforts on anti-smuggling and trade and origin frauds, particularly the phenomenon of foreign goods disguised as “made-in-Vietnam” products for exports.

-- Vietjet, Swift 247, a technology startup providing super express air delivery service and ride-hailing platform Grab on Thursday signed an MoU on the comprehensive cooperation to provide super express delivery services in Vietnamese market.

-- Vietnam is taking measures to prevent trade and origin frauds in the domestic market as well as export-import activities in a bid to protect legitimate interests of local businesses and consumers, foreign ministry spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said at a regular press meeting in Hanoi on Thursday.

Lifestyle

-- The 2019 Toyota Concert, held annually to promote ace Vietnamese music artists, will begin today, August 9, at the Hanoi Opera House, featuring Vietnamese and Japanese talents and the National Symphony and Orchestra.

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