Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that state-run enterprises play a pioneering role in innovation, application of science and technology, international integration, and foreign investment during a working session with some of such enterprises on Saturday afternoon.

-- A whirlwind swept through Ia Grai District in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on Friday night, tearing the roofs of 22 houses and damaging crops, the district administration reported on Saturday.

-- The administration in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, has required the investor of My Xuan A2 Industrial Park to pay its water bills totaling over VND23 billion (US$903,555) to the water supplier.

-- Residents in Phu Hoa District, Phu Yen Province, south-central Vietnam on Saturday discovered three teenagers drowning in a local river, a local official said the same day.

-- A resident in Ho Chi Minh City handed over a 1.2-meter-long clouded monitor weighing some seven kilograms to forest protection officers on Saturday. The resident found the lizard in his house on Friday.

Education

-- The Malaysian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City received 740 visa applications from Vietnamese students who sought to study in Malaysia in 2023, surging over 300 percent against the previous year, the diplomatic agency announced on Saturday.

Lifestyle

-- The second display of the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2024 lit up the sky of the namesake Vietnamese city and repeatedly wowed the audience on Saturday with performances from U.S. and Italian pyrotechnic teams.

Sports

-- “Italy recovered from conceding the fastest goal in the competition's history to get their defence of the European Championship title off to a winning start on Saturday as they came back to beat Albania 2-1 in front of a partisan crowd,” according to AFP.

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