What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Cuban Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz met with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc, and National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue in Hanoi on Thursday, as part of his offiicial visit to Vietnam from Wednesday through Sunday.

Society

-- Two Chinesec ID cards were found among seven bodies washed ashore on Phu Quoc Island off southern Vietnam on Thursday, according to local police.

-- Vietnamese police on Wednesday busted a ring that smuggled 198kg of gold from Cambodia into Vietnam, the Ministry of Public Security said on Thursday.

-- All vehicles have been banned from traveling on Nguyen Huu Canh Overpass in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City since 7:00 pm on Thursday. The structure is being repaired, the local Department of Transportation said.

-- Ho Chi Minh City is facing an increasingly severe shortage of nursing staff as new recruits cannot fill the void left behind by resignees, the municipal Department of Health said on Friday.

Business

-- Vietnam's aquatic product export revenue surged 33 percent year on year to reach US$2.8 billion in January-August, according to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers.

-- Vietnamese enterprises should focus on meeting quality requirements and ensuring green and sustainable growth, the Vietnam News Agency quoted experts as saying at the Vietnam-EU Trade Forum held in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday.

Education

-- Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has proposed that the central government allow it to use VND3.5 trillion ($147 million) from the state coffers to buy school textbooks for lending to K-12 students from the next academic year onward, Deputy Minister Pham Ngoc Thuong said on Thursday. 

-- Laos hosted a Vietnamese higher education exhibition with the participation of 40 Vietnamese universities and more than 1,300 12th graders from 12 high schools in Vientiane, Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training said on Thursday. 

World News

-- Reuters cited Russia as saying on Thursday that leaks spewing gas into the Baltic Sea from pipelines to Germany appeared to be the result of state-sponsored 'terrorism.'

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