Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi on Sunday morning for a state visit to China through Tuesday next week.

Society

-- A 29-seater coach overturned after its driver braked sharply to avoid a motorbike in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai on Saturday, causing 18 people to be hospitalized, local authorities reported the same day.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday worked with a group of people getting involved in a video depicting two young men lying on two motorbikes' seats and swiftly overtaking a car on a section of Pham Van Dong Boulevard in Go Vap District in a lane for cars.

Business

-- Vietnam's state-run lottery company Vietlott reported its pre-tax profit at nearly VND212 billion (US$8.5 million) in the first half of this year, the highest for the period over the past six years.

Lifestyle

-- A special artistic program and a parade of cavalry troops were held on Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening to celebrate 55 years of the implementation of President Ho Chi Minh’s Testament (1969-2024) and 79 years of the People’s Public Security Traditional Day (August 19, 1945 - August 19, 2024).

-- Two five-year-old contestants and a nine-year-old one from Vietnam received special prizes and certificates of merit at the Vienna International Arts Festival in Austria. The festival, taking place from August 5 to 10, attracting young talents from 22 countries and territories.

World News

-- “About 68 million people in Southern Africa are suffering the effects of an El Nino-induced drought which has wiped out crops across the region,” Reuters cited the regional bloc SADC to say on Saturday.

-- “A magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck off the east coast of Russia's Kamchatka region at a depth of 51 km (32 miles),” Reuters reported, quoting the European Mediterranean Seismological Center on Saturday.

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