Read what is in the news today:

Politics

-- Senior Vietnamese leaders extended condolences to the Royal Family, government, parliament, and people of the UK over the death of Queen Elizabeth II on Friday.

Society

-- Traffic police officers sanctioned more than 24,000 drivers for alcohol concentration violations in the past 15 days, of which nearly 7,900 violators had their driver’s licenses revoked for 23 months - the highest penalty level, an official of the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public and Security said on Friday night.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh sent a dispatch to chairpeople of 14 cities and provinces in the northern and north-central regions on Friday urging proactive responses to the consequences of the rainy and flooding situation that has battered those areas in the past few days.

-- The Hanoi Department of Transport announced on Friday afternoon the continuation of the pilot segregation of cars and motorbikes on Nguyen Trai Street that has failed to make a difference over the past month.

-- A top official of the Hanoi Department of Public Security announced on Friday afternoon the arrest of the owner of a five-story karaoke parlor in Cau Giay District, where a conflagration killed three firefighters last month.

-- The Steering Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search and Rescue of northern Thai Binh Province carried out an effort on Friday to recover a cargo ship carrying 1,077 metric tons of diesel oil that had sunk in the sea waters off Thai Thuy District a day before.

Education

-- Ngai Phong Cho village kindergarten was inaugurated in northern Lao Cai Province on Friday, marking the operation of the first school built entirely from 115 metric tons of recycled plastic in Vietnam.

-- Up to 407 kindergarten, elementary, and middle school students have skipped classes since September 5 to protest against the construction of a waste treatment plant in Hoa Phong Commune, My Hao Town, northern Hung Yen Province, local authorities said on Friday.

Lifestyle

-- As many as 500 Ho Chi Minh City children orphaned by the COVID-19 pandemic enjoyed a memorable Mid-Autumn Festival celebration held by Saigontourist Group at Dam Sen Cultural Park in District 11 on Friday night.

-- Merriam-Webster added 370 new words to its dictionary earlier this week, including the world-famous Vietnamese ‘banh mi,’ according to The Washington Post.

-- Investors announced on Friday a project to establish and put into operation the first-ever book street in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region and the fifth of its kind across the country in Cao Lanh City of Dong Thap Province in late November.

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