What you need to know in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam's Minister of National Defense General Phan Van Giang received Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Defence Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, who is in Vietnam to attend the countries’ second defense policy dialogue, in Hanoi on Thursday, the Vietnam News Agency reported the same day.

Society

-- Guinness World Records has declared a glass-bottomed walkway, the Bach Long glass bridge, in Vietnam, which was opened the public in April, the world's longest bridge of its kind.

-- A car crashed into a motorbike in Bac Giang Province, northern Vietnam, on Friday, killing three people, including a child, on the bike, an official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper the same day. 

-- The Ministry of Health reported 2,208 new COVID-19 cases in Vietnam on Thursday, along with 5,820 recoveries and one death. 

Business

-- Seafood exporters in Vietnam are on tenterhooks as they are expected to face a shrimp shortage in the coming months.

Sports

-- Vietnam drew 2-2 against Thailand in a group-stage game on Thursday at the 2022 AFC U23 Asian Cup in Uzbekistan.

Education

-- Five Vietnamese universities have made it to the Times Higher Education's Asia University Rankings 2022, including Ton Duc Thang University in 73rd place; Duy Tan University, 91st; Vietnam National University, Hanoi, placed between 301st and 350th; Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City City, 401st-500th; and Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST), 501st+, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

World News

-- "Google's YouTube and other platforms could have to pay copyright damages over unauthorised uploads even if the content was put online by a third party, Germany's top court ruled," Reuters reported on Thursday.

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