Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A heavy downpour left multiple streets in Nhon Trach District, Dong Nai Province, located in southern Vietnam seriously flooded and brought the traffic on some routes almost to a standstill on Friday afternoon.

-- The national weather center forecast that the northern, Central Highlands, and southern regions in Vietnam could be hit by rains and scattered thunderstorms from Friday evening till next Tuesday, with excessive rainfall expected in some locations.

-- Police on Friday pressed charges against the director and one deputy director of Xuyen Viet Oil Travel and Transport Trading Company, a major fuel wholesaler in southern Vietnam, for allegedly violating regulations on public asset management and use that caused loss and wastefulness.

Business

-- Diplomats, senior officials and business representatives of Vietnam and Japan attended a ceremony held in Binh Duong Province on Friday, during which many Japanese investors were granted investment certificates and construction permits to develop FDI projects in this southern Vietnamese province.

-- Vietnam attracted an additional US$18.15 billion worth of foreign investment in the year to August, improving 8.2 percent over the same period last year, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

-- Kurz Vietnam Company Limited, a unit of Germany-based thin-film technology company Kurz, on Friday inaugurated a hi-tech coating and thin film factory at Becamex Vietnam-Singapore Industrial Park (VSIP) in Binh Dinh Province, located in south-central Vietnam.

Education

-- Viettel Solutions, a subsidiary of the Military Industry, and Telecommunications Group (Viettel) and Google Asia Pacific Company Limited on Thursday signed a strategic cooperation agreement to promote digital transformation in education and cloud computing in Vietnam.

World News

-- Four people were killed and scores wounded on Friday in Russian air strikes on Ukraine, including a deadly attack in which a missile slammed into a police building in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's hometown, Reuters reported.

-- The British government has signed a partnership with Singapore to grow its economy and enhance shared security, Reuters cited Downing Street as saying on Friday, adding it was the UK's first treaty since leaving the European Union.

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