What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnam wishes to strengthen multifaceted cooperation with Hungary – its first comprehensive partner among traditional friends in Central Eastern Europe, the Vietnam News Agency cited State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc as saying at his reception for outgoing Hungarian Ambassador Ory Csaba in Hanoi on Thursday.

Society

-- People who show signs of monkeypox infection should have a check-up at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Nguyen Hong Tam, deputy director of the local Center for Disease Control said on Thursday.

-- Gia Dinh People's Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has filed a report to police on one of its doctors being attacked by the father of a child who was given emergency aid over one piece of fish bone stuck down her throat on Wednesday, a spokesperson of the municipal Department of Health said on Thursday.

-- Police in Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam said on Friday that they had commenced legal proceedings against a couple for abusing their seven-year-old daughter.

Business

-- China, Vietnam, Uganda, Indonesia, and India are forecast to be among the fastest-growing economies by 2030, researchers from Harvard University concluded in The Atlas of Economic Complexity. 

-- VTB Bank, a Russian majority state-owned bank servicing Russia’s foreign trade operations, launched money transfers to Vietnam in Vietnamese dong from July 27, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

World News

-- "Flooding in eastern Kentucky, [USA] has caused at least eight deaths, Governor Andy Beshear said on Thursday, and the death toll is expected to reach double digits as water continues to rise," Reuters reported.

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