What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Chinese Party General Secretary and President Xi Jinping, Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni, and Russian President Vladimir Putin have sent congratulations to State President To Lam on his election as General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

-- The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam has agreed to the resignation of four high-ranking officials, including Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai, Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Dang Quoc Khanh, secretary of the Party Committee of Quang Ninh Province Nguyen Xuan Ky, and secretary of the Party Committee of Tuyen Quang Province Chau Van Lam, and dismissed them from all Party posts as they were found to have violated the Party’s regulations.

Society

-- Police in Ca Mau, the southernmost province of Vietnam, on Saturday issued legal proceedings against a 31-year-old woman for tricking her five cousins into taking ‘high-paying easy jobs’ in Cambodia.

-- On Saturday, Hoi An City in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, celebrated the reopening of Cau Pagoda, a historic bridge over 400 years old. The restoration, which began in late 2022, was completed at a cost of more than VND20.2 billion (US$801,272).

-- A man in Quang Xuong District, Thanh Hoa Province, north-central Vietnam died half a month after eating pig blood pudding on July 19, the district’s medical center reported on Saturday.

Lifestyle

-- Vo Le Que Anh, 23, from Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam, was crowned Miss Grand Vietnam 2024 during the grand finale in south-central Binh Thuan Province on Saturday evening.

-- The Nha Trang International Light Bay Festival, Vietnam’s first international drone light show contest, wrapped up in the namesake city in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam on Saturday evening, featuring the competition of teams from France and the United Arab Emirates.

World News

-- “At least 37 civilians were killed and 212 were injured in an explosion at a popular beach restaurant in the Somali capital late on Friday,” Reuters citing the health minister as saying.

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