What you need to know in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Moderate to heavy rains are expected throughout Vietnam on Sunday while people in the southern region might suffer downpours with a rain volume of up to 120 millimeters late in the afternoon and at night, according to the national weather center.

-- Border guards in Lai Chau Province, northern Vietnam on Saturday searched and rescued a 64-year-old man who fell down a cliff in a local forest on Tuesday.

-- The Department of Planning and Investment of Lam Dong Province in the Central Highlands region announced on Saturday that it had suspended the operations of Dalat Prince Hotel in Da Lat City owing to the hotel using its premises for unauthorized purposes.

-- Seven border guard officers and two speedboats were mobilized to rescue 23 people, including 20 tourists, on board a sinking speedboat in the waters off the central Vietnamese province of Quang Nam on Saturday.

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China Xi Jinping on Saturday visited the Vietnamese Embassy in Beijing to mourn the passing of General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong.

Business

-- Vietnam exported over 1,330 metric tons of fish roe worth US$22.2 million in the first half of the year, an 84-fold year-on-year surge, according to statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs.

Education

-- All six Vietnamese students competing at the 65th International Mathematical Olympiad held in the United Kingdom won five medals and an honorable mention, the Ministry of Education and Training announced on Saturday.

World News

-- Wildfires raging through the northern part of Canada's Alberta have forced evacuations of three communities, a provincial body said on Saturday, as the oil-rich province continues to fight five different 'wildfires of note' in separate areas, reported Reuters.

-- Security experts said CrowdStrike's routine update of its widely used cybersecurity software, which caused clients' computer systems to crash globally on Friday, apparently did not undergo adequate quality checks before it was deployed, according to Reuters.

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