What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday held phone talks with his Thai counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra after she became the 31st Prime Minister of Thailand.

Society

-- Chairman of the administration in Ho Chi Minh City Phan Van Mai has written to chairpersons of the governments in neighboring Long An, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, and Ba Ria - Vung Tau Provinces, urging the completion of the prefeasibility report for Beltway No. 4, which will be 207 kilometers long and require a cost of some VND13 trillion (US$521.2 million). This is the largest-ever road project in southeastern Vietnam.

-- While tidying the scene of a blast that killed two people on Tuesday, two excavator drivers were injured as another explosion occurred on Thursday, a local official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper the same day.

-- Kindergartens and elementary schools in Ho Chi Minh have reported 21 students with measles this month, according to the municipal Department of Education and Training.

-- The Airports Corporation of Vietnam, the investor of the Long Thanh International Airport project in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam, said on Thursday that it and contractors would strive to complete the passenger terminal at the airport by August 2026.

-- Hanoi will organize nearly 20 entertainment activities during the National Day (September 2) holiday, lasting from August 31 to September 3, to provide tourists with diversified experiences, the municipal Department of Tourism said on Thursday.

-- Traffic police in southern Tien Giang and Ben Tre Provinces where the Rach Mieu Bridge is located will use drones to promptly detect and handle vehicles running in wrong lanes and incidents on the bridge during the National Day (September 2) holiday.

Business

-- Citilink Indonesia will begin offering charter flights from Jakarta to Da Nang City in central Vietnam in December this year, the airline claimed during a meeting on Thursday with Da Nang leaders who are paying a working trip to Indonesia.

Lifestyle

-- ARRIVAL, a band from Sweden, will perform in three Vietnamese cities—Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, and Hanoi in October this year during their The Music of ABBA concert tour with the participation of DrumsetÅke Sundqvist, an instrumentalist of the legend pop group ABBA, the organizer of the tour informed on Thursday.

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