Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha met with mayor of Shanghai Gong Zheng on Saturday afternoon, as part of the former’s China visit to attend the sixth China International Import Expo, scheduled to take place from Sunday to Friday, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- A woman sneaked into the obstetrics and gynecology department of the Binh Duong Province General Hospital in southern Vietnam on Saturday afternoon and was suspected of kidnapping a newborn girl. The baby was found in Dau Tieng District, some 40 kilometers from the hospital, at night on the same day.

-- A lighting technician was wounded after being hit by the falling lights of a lamppost in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday afternoon. The incident happened while the worker was repairing the street lighting.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday signed a telegram urging relevant units to step up efforts to fulfill all requirements set by the European Commission on combating illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing to quickly get the ‘yellow card’ fishing warning lifted.

-- The northern and central regions are forecast to experience scattered rains and fog at dawn on Sunday, while downpours, paired with thunderstorms, will batter many parts of the southern region late in the afternoon, according to the national weather center.

-- Two officials from the Electricity Regulatory Authority of Vietnam under the Ministry of Industry and Trade and three workers at state utility Vietnam Electricity were detained on Friday for allegedly abusing their positions and powers while on duty.

Business

-- Vietnam exported shrimp worth over US$173 million to mainland China and Hong Kong in the third quarter of the year, up 15 percent year on year, according to statistics from the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors.

World News

-- Countries moved a step closer on Saturday to getting a fund off the ground to help poor states damaged by climate disasters, despite reservations from developing nations and the United States, Reuters reported.

-- Arab leaders publicly pressed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Saturday to secure an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, hours after Palestinians said an Israeli air strike killed at least 15 people in a U.N.-run school being used as a shelter, according to Reuters.

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