Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary and State President To Lam and a high-ranking delegation left Hanoi on Monday morning for state visits to Mongolia, Ireland, attendance at the 19th Francophonie Summit, and an official visit to France until October 7.

Society

-- The north of Vietnam is expecting heavy rain and a strong cold front on Monday, while the south will experience sunny daytime weather, with evening showers in some areas, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- A comet visible once every 80,000 years was seen with the naked eye in the sky over Quy Nhon City in Binh Dinh Province, south-central Vietnam on Sunday morning.

-- A rescue team from Lac Duong District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong successfully located and saved two tourists from Ho Chi Minh City who had been lost in the forest on Langbiang Peak on Sunday.

-- Functional forces in Ha Giang Province, northern Vietnam are working to locate missing people following a landslide on National Highway 2 that caused three houses to collapse and buried five cars on Sunday.

-- The People’s Committee of Tay Ninh Province in southern Vietnam has announced plans to proceed with phase II of the irrigation project west of the Vam Co Dong River, with a total budget of VND600 billion (US$24.38 million).

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the groundbreaking ceremony for the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway project in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on Sunday.

Business

-- According to the General Department of Vietnam Customs, Vietnam, the world’s leading rice exporter, will import a record amount of approximately $1 billion worth of rice by the end of this year.

Sports

-- World No. 4 Carlo Biado from the Philippines defeated Austria’s No. 17 Mario He in the final of the Ho Chi Minh City Open 2024 on Sunday night, winning a record prize of $35,000 – the highest in the history of pool billiards in Vietnam – plus an additional $5,000 bonus from the sponsor.

-- South Korean prodigy Cho Myung Woo convincingly defeated Vietnam’s Tran Thanh Luc on Sunday afternoon to win the 76th World Championship 3-Cushion Individual, held in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam.

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