Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Nguyen Thanh Long, former Minister of Health, was found to have received US$2.25 million of bribes in a case linked to Viet A Technology Corporation’s gouging of COVID-19 test kit prices, according to the Ministry of Public Security, which proposed an indictment against Long on Friday.

-- Police in northern Son La Province have launched a probe to determine the cause of the death of an elementary school teacher, whose body was found near a hydropower reservoir in the province on Friday morning, a local official confirmed the same day.

– A huge fire engulfed a LED light box and advertising board manufacturing facility spanning hundreds of square meters in Thu Duc City, under Ho Chi Minh City on Friday evening, destroying a large number of properties inside.

-- Vietnam is set to have more stroke centers in the upcoming period, but the quality of stroke treatment and care services should be enhanced further, a local stroke expert told a symposium held on Friday in Ho Chi Minh City.

Business

-- The Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Foreign Trade Agency has published a list of domestic firms eligible to export rice, sending the total number of rice exporters in the country to 210 as of Thursday this week.

-- More than 5,300 flights are scheduled to operate during the peak travel period from August 31 to September 5, providing a total of 1.06 million seats in order to meet passengers' demand during the National Day (September 2) holidays, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

World News

-- Paris will ban pony rides for children in its public parks from 2025 following a campaign by animal rights activists who argue that the ponies are not well treated, Reuters reported.

-- U.S. President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed at Camp David on Friday to deepen military and economic cooperation and made their strongest joint condemnation yet of "dangerous and aggressive behavior" by China in the East Vietnam Sea, according to Reuters.

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