What you need to know today in Vietnam:
Politics
-- The Embassy of Vietnam in Russia on Wednesday hosted a ceremony in Moscow to celebrate the 77th anniversary of the National Day (September 2, 1945 – September 2, 2022) with the participation of more than 800 guests, including many Russian officials and diplomats, and foreign diplomatic corps, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Thursday.
Society
-- Thirteen people died and ten were injured in 21 traffic accidents in Vietnam on the first day of the four-day National Day break, which started on Thursday, according to police reports.
-- Seven earthquakes measuring up to 4.1 on the Richter scale occurred in Kon Plong District, Kon Tum Province, located in Vietnam's Central Highlands region, on Thursday, the Institute of Geophysics said.
-- Many streets in Da Lat, a resort city in the Central Highlands, were flooded after a heavy rain on Thursday, according to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters on the scene.
-- Vietnam and Cambodia have cooperated to repatriate over 600 Vietnamese citizens who had been tricked or lured to work illegally in the kingdom so far.
Business
-- Pham Nhat Vuong's net worth reached US$4.9 billion, ranking 411th in the list of the world's richest people, according to real-time data Forbes released on Thursday. Vuong is considered the wealthiest in Vietnam.
World News
-- "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday recommended the use of redesigned COVID-19 booster shots for people aged 12 years and older to target the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants of the coronavirus," Reuters reported.
-- "The southwestern Chinese metropolis of Chengdu announced a lockdown of its 21.2 million residents as it launched four days of citywide COVID-19 testing, as some of the country's most populous and economically important cities battle outbreaks," Reuters reported.
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