Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Nearly 130,000 tourists visited southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province on Friday, the first day of the Vietnamese National Day holiday, up over 120 percent year on year, despite unfavorable weather conditions caused by Super Typhoon Saola, the third tropical storm to hit Vietnam this year.

-- Bui Phuong Nga, a 34-year-old director of a travel company in Con Dao Island, off the coast of southern Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, has been prosecuted for allegedly swindling tourists, a local legal official confirmed on Friday.

-- Traffic police nationwide sanctioned 8,480 drivers for breaching traffic safety regulations on Friday, the first day of the Vietnamese National Day holiday, seizing over 2,500 vehicles and revoking nearly 1,800 driver’s licenses of the violators, according to the Traffic Police Department under the Ministry of Public and Security.

-- Super Typhoon Saola may not make landfall in mainland China as earlier predicted but could turn toward the waters to the southwest of China’s southern Guangdong Province on Saturday afternoon, Vietnam’s national weather center said on Friday.

-- Truong Hong Ky, 42, a military official in central Phu Yen Province, drowned on Friday afternoon after he managed to rescue two teenagers washed away by sea waves, a local military official confirmed the same day.

Business

– Vietnam recorded more than 14,000 newly-established firms last month, improving 2.3 percent month on month and 17.9 percent over the same period last year, according to the General Statistics Office of Vietnam.

Politics

-- President of the House of Councillors of Japan Otsuji Hidehisa will pay an official visit to Vietnam from September 4 to 7, the Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations. 

World News

-- Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan on Monday in the Black Sea resort of Sochi as Ankara and the United Nations seek to revive a Ukraine grain export deal that helped ease a global food crisis, Reuters reported.

-- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the upcoming G20 summit in India remains important despite the absence of Russia and China, in an interview with German radio station Deutschlandfunk released late on Friday, according to Reuters.

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