Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation left Hanoi on Tuesday evening for a state visit to India from Tuesday through Thursday at the invitation of his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi.

-- Vietnam’s State President To Lam hosted a reception for Josep Borrell Fontelles, Vice-President of the European Commission and High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, in Hanoi on Tuesday. Borrell is paying an official visit to Vietnam from Monday to Wednesday at the invitation of Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son.

Business

-- The number of international visitor arrivals to Vietnam neared 10 million between January and July this year, soaring 51 percent year on year and improving 1.9 percent against the pre-pandemic level in 2019, according to data released by the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.

Society

-- All buses in Ho Chi Minh City are expected to completely run on green energy by 2030, a local transport official told a seminar on the transition to green energy held in the southern metropolis on Tuesday.

-- A team of workers began a clean-up drive on Tuesday morning to remove more than 100 kilograms of lifeless fish from the iconic Xuan Huong Lake in Da Lat City, a tourist destination in Vietnam’s Central Highlands of Lam Dong. Some local fishers said a mass fish die-off occurred a few days ago following torrential rain in the upland city.

-- Police of Nha Trang City in south-central Khanh Hoa Province arrested a 29-year-old local man on Tuesday for allegedly setting fire to a gas station and facilities at several other locations the same day. The suspect, who confessed to police that he is a drug addict, tested positive for drugs after the arrest.

-- The administration of Quang Ngai Province in central Vietnam issued an emergency dispatch on Tuesday, asking departments and agencies across the province to actively respond to a series of quakes in neighboring Kon Tum Province that caused vibrations in Quang Ngai, as well as to adopt effective measures to safeguard residents and state properties.

-- Vietnam reported 36 food poisoning incidents that left more than 2,300 people sick and six dead in the first half of 2024, according to the Ministry of Health.

World News

-- Landslides swept through tea estates and villages in southern India's Kerala on Tuesday, killing at least 106 people while they slept as unexpected heavy rain collapsed hillsides and triggered torrents of mud, water and tumbling boulders, Reuters reported.

-- The largest wildfire in the U.S. swelled to over 600 square miles on Tuesday, bigger than the city of Los Angeles, fire officials in California said, as thousands of firefighters battled the blaze in a wilderness area north of Sacramento, according to Reuters.

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