Read what is in the news today, September 30!

Politics

-- Vietnam’s top leaders, including Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, on Sunday cabled messages of congratulations to their Chinese counterparts on the occasion of China’s 70th National Day (October 1).

-- Vietnam will make all-out efforts to preserve and enhance its special relations with Laos, chairwoman of Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan affirmed on Sunday during a meeting with Lao Party General Secretary and President Bounnhang Vorachith in Vientiane as part of her visit to the Southeast Asian neighbor.

Society

-- Vietnam has set eyes on achieving 100-percent broadband coverage nationwide by 2025 and a digital economy that accounts for 30 percent of the country’s GDP by 2030, according to a resolution on promoting the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) issued by the Politburo, the top decision-making body of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

-- A 64-kilometer expressway linking the northern provinces of Bac Giang and Lang Son was inaugurated on Sunday after four years of construction. The US$525 million road has four traffic lanes and two emergency lanes and is designed for a travelling speed of 100 kilometers per hour.

-- High tides are forecast to peak at 1.68 meters in Ho Chi Minh City at dusk on Monday, causing inundations at low areas in the southern metropolis including parts of District 2, District 4 and District 7 during the afternoon rush hours, according to the Hydro-Meteorological Observatory Center for the Southern Region.

-- Nguyen Huu Hanh, former Brigadier General and Chief of the Joint General Staff of the erstwhile South Vietnam’s military forces who called on his men to surrender on April 30, 1975 - the final day of the American war in Vietnam - died on Sunday at the age of 96.

Business

-- Vietnam’s GDP expanded 6.98 percent in the January-September period of 2019, the highest nine-month growth rate over the past nine years, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).

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