What you need to know today:

Politics 

-- Ambassador Dang Dinh Quy, head of Vietnam’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations, on Wednesday called on the UN Security Council to review its sanctions against South Sudan, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Politburo member and head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Van Binh welcomed a delegation of the US-ASEAN Business Council in Hanoi on Thursday, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- Police on Friday arrested two people for destroying the house of N.D.T., board chairman of a real estate company in Da Nang.

-- Former Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai and former chairman of the city Le Hoang Quan are facing disciplinary action over their wrongdoings while in office.

-- A fire swept through a market in the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam on Thursday, gutting hundreds of kiosks there.

-- U.S. Navy officers from aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt joined a Gangnam Style dance with children at a vocational center for the disabled in Da Nang on Thursday. 

Sports

-- The Football Association of Indonesia, popularly known as PSSI, has said that the Vietnam-Indonesia game in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifers in Hanoi will be postponed to November 12 instead of June 4, in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease.

World News

-- The novel coronavirus has infected nearly 98,000 people and killed almost 3,400 others globally, according to statistics.