Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on Monday morning (local time) visited and delivered a speech at Columbia University in New York as part of his trip to the U.S. to attend the United Nations Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, and engage in other working sessions in the North American country.

-- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Ho Duc Phoc urged China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Vietnamese localities to boost rail, road, sea, and air transport connectivity and accelerate the construction of pilot smart border gates to facilitate trade between Vietnam and China during a meeting with Liu Ning, secretary of the Communist Party of China Committee of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and chairman of the Standing Committee of the region's People's Congress on Monday.

-- The Vietnamese Embassy in Egypt and Lebanon issued an urgent notice on Monday, advising Vietnamese citizens to leave Lebanon while commercial flights are still available. The embassy also recommended that those planning to travel to Lebanon either suspend or cancel their trips due to the escalating conflict in the Middle East.

Society

-- A collision between a sleeper bus and a container truck on a Vinh Hao - Phan Thiet Expressway section in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam in the wee hours of Tuesday injured at least 12 people.

-- A seminar on promoting Vietnam-Japan tourism will take place in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday afternoon.

-- Authorities in Binh Duong and Dong Nai Provinces, both neighbors of Ho Chi Minh City, on Monday opened a bridge connecting the two provinces to traffic.

Business

-- Robert Maersk Uggla, chairman of A.P. Moller Holding (APM Holding), a global business and investment group from Denmark, and chairman of Maersk, the shipping arm of APM Holding, expressed his wishes to invest in large, modern deep-water container ports and strategic logistics projects in Vietnam at a meeting with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Hanoi on Monday. 

-- South Korea’s reinsurance firm Aon Plc, the owner of Landmark 72, which is the tallest building in Hanoi and the second-tallest in Vietnam, is seeking to sell 100 percent of its shares in the property for over one trillion won (US$749.3 million).

Lifestyle

-- The Hanoi Capital High Command has proposed setting off fireworks at only one venue in Hoan Kiem District to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Vietnamese capital's Liberation Day (October 10, 1954 - October 10, 2024) instead of 30 venues as earlier planned.

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