Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Saturday afternoon (local time) for the United Nations Summit of the Future, the 79th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 79), and working sessions in the U.S..

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday received Ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Ri Sung Guk. who arrived in Vietnam for his tenure in early August.

Society

-- Border guards in Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam said on Saturday that they were searching for a tourist who went missing after taking a false step and falling into the sea while posing for photos at a local reef.

-- Residents in Yen Bai Province, northern Vietnam on Saturday saved two girls who were swept away while cycling through a spillway, a local official reported the same day.

-- The administration in Hanoi on Saturday inaugurated the Hanoi Children's Palace, which carries a price tag of over VND1.3 trillion (US$52.8 million).

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has proposed expanding an approach road section of the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway from the under-construction An Phu Intersection to Beltway No. 2 to eight lanes from the current four lanes. The project, which costs an estimated of VND938.9 billion ($38.2 million), will be executed until 2027.

-- Two workers died and two others were injured after a scaffold collapsed at the construction site of a factory in northern Ninh Binh Province on Saturday afternoon.

-- The Management Board of Industrial and Civil Engineering Construction and Investment Projects of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed that the municipal Department of Construction approve a project to upgrade Thong Nhat Stadium in District 10 to serve the 10th National Sports Festival in 2026.

Business

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh required the State Bank of Vietnam and local banks to consider support policies for enterprises and residents hit by typhoon Yagi, which made landfall in northern Vietnam on September 7 and has left massive destruction in its wake, at a meeting between cabinet members and leaders of 13 joint stock commercial banks on Saturday.

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