Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Indonesia's President-elect Prabowo Subianto is scheduled to pay a working visit to Vietnam from Friday to Saturday, according to an announcement from the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

-- The U.S. expresses sincere condolences to the people of Vietnam suffering the devastating consequences of typhoon Yagi, adding that the U.S. Agency for International Development is providing humanitarian aid to support Vietnam’s efforts to respond to Yagi’s impacts, U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said in a press statement posted on the U.S. Department of State’s official website on Thursday (U.S. time).

Business

-- The management authority of Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam reopened tourist boat services in the bay from Friday after suspending the services to cope with the devastating typhoon Yagi, the third storm to strike Vietnam this year.

Society

-- The World Health Organization (WHO) has donated one million water purification tablets to protect the health of hundreds of thousands of people across northern Vietnam following the tragic devastation of typhoon Yagi, WHO said in a press release issued on Friday.

-- Le Thi Thu Hang, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and chairwoman of the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs, handed over more than VND600 million (US$24,400) to Do Van Chien, chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front on Friday. This contribution came from Vietnamese communities in Laos, Japan, and Russia to support those impacted by Typhoon Yagi.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department confirmed on Friday that it had released 27 wild animals, including a Burmese python weighing approximately 50 kilograms, into the Dong Nai Nature and Cultural Reserve, located in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam.

-- Two-thirds of the relief supplies from the ASEAN Coordinating Center for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management to support Vietnamese citizens affected by typhoon Yagi landed at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Friday evening, the Vietnam Disaster and Dyke Management Authority, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, confirmed the same day.

World News

-- Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in food, fuel and electricity, Reuters reported.

-- South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil's Amazon rainforest through the world's largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to September 11, according to Reuters.

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