Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Royal Canadian Navy frigate HMCS Montreal docked at Nha Rong Wharf in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, commencing a visit to the southern metropolis until Monday.

Society

-- A one-minute and 30-second video has gone viral on social media in Vietnam, showing a girl clinging to the hood of a moving car, shouting for help, and begging the driver to stop. The incident occurred on Dong Ho Street in Tan Binh District, Ho Chi Minh City early on Thursday, a traffic police officer told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.

-- Locals in Viet Tri City, northern Phu Tho Province discovered a wartime bomb near Viet Tri Port on Wednesday afternoon. The bomb was estimated to weigh some 250 kilograms and measure 1.5 meters in length.

-- Scorching weather conditions are forecast to sweep through the central region on Friday with temperatures possibly climbing to 37 degrees Celsius, while many localities in southern Vietnam might experience showers and thunderstorms late in the afternoon, according to the national weather center.

-- Khanh Hoa Province in south-central Vietnam recorded 17 stone-throwing attacks on moving trains in the first five months of 2024. The acts of vandalism damaged 20 glass windows of these trains, an official said on Thursday.

Business

-- The 18th Ho Chi Minh City International Travel Expo (ITE HCMC 2024) will take place at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in District 7 from September 5 to 7, heard a press briefing to introduce the event on Thursday.

-- Vietnamese coffee and pepper producer and exporter Phuc Sinh Corp will receive a US$25-million loan from SAIL Investments’ Netherlands-based & Green Fund to enhance sustainable product development.

World News

-- Global health officials on Thursday confirmed an infection with a new strain of the mpox virus in Sweden and linked it to a growing outbreak in Africa, the first sign of its spread outside the continent a day after the World Health Organization declared the disease a global public health emergency, according to Reuters.

-- Hurricane Ernesto on Thursday barreled toward Bermuda where it threatened powerful winds, a dangerous storm surge and heavy rains over the weekend after leaving hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans without power in its wake. Ernesto is forecast to strengthen into a much more powerful hurricane before it reaches Bermuda late on Friday, reported Reuters.

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