Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Express boat services to Nam Du, an island off the coast of Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam, have been suspended since Sunday owing to inclement weather conditions, leaving nearly 70 tourists stranded on the island, a local official said on Monday.

-- As many as 20 countries and international organizations have sent, or planned to provide Vietnam with, relief aid worth a total of US$22 million by Monday to support the Southeast Asian country’s efforts to respond to the devastating impacts of typhoon Yagi, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

-- Police in Dak Lak Province, located in the Central Highlands, said on Monday that they had detained a 32-year-old man for moving a pickup truck backward in a schoolyard and hitting a seven-year-old student to death.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday ordered the construction of a new bridge to replace the Phong Chau Bridge in northern Phu Tho Province, which collapsed on September 9. The bridge collapse killed two people and left six others missing by Monday.

-- Three Vietnamese were among the five survivors after a fishing boat with eight people on board capsized in the waters off South Korea's west coast on Monday morning, the Yonhap news agency reported the same day, citing the South Korean coast guard.

-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Monday wrote to the administrations in the coastal localities from Quang Ninh in the north to Binh Thuan in the south-central region and relevant ministries and agencies, asking them to keep a close watch on the developments of a tropical depression which was in the waters of the Philippines on Monday.

Business

-- Fast-food chain McDonald’s Vietnam announced on Monday that it would close its store near Ben Thanh Market in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City from 2:00 am on Thursday after a decade of operation. The chain did not disclose the reason for the closure.

World News

-- “Residents of several areas of Poland and the Czech Republic rushed to evacuate on Monday, as others in central Europe began cleaning up after the worst flooding in over two decades left a trail of destruction and a rising number of deaths,” according to Reuters.

-- “A chartered flight carrying ten passengers and a crew member crashed on Monday afternoon during takeoff in Migori, Kenya, with no reported injuries or fatalities,” Reuters cited the air charter company as saying.

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