Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Chinese Premier Li Qiang arrived in Hanoi on Saturday evening, starting an official visit to Vietnam through Monday next week at the invitation of Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Society

-- The government of Japan has announced a US$2 million contribution to the International Organization for Migration and the United Nations Children’s Fund to support Vietnam’s critical relief and early recovery efforts after typhoon Yagi, the Vietnam News Agency cited the Japanese Embassy in Vietnam as saying. Typhoon Yagi, which made landfall in northern Vietnam early last month, killed more than 300 people and caused damage estimated at $3.31 billion across the region.

-- Police in Trang Bom District, Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam are investigating a pig farm with some 2,000 pigs over its suspected illegal operations and release of untreated wastewater into the environment, officers reported on Saturday.

-- Rescuers in Da Nang City, central Vietnam on Saturday afternoon successfully saved a woman who was sitting on a local bridge, seeming to intend to take her own life.

-- A sleeper bus crashed into a truck on a Phan Thiet - Dau Giay Expressway section in Binh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam on Saturday morning, injuring five people on the bus.

-- The administration in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam has requested the provincial Department of Tourism to employ solutions to reach a target of 3.3 million tourists this quarter, including some 900,000 international travelers.

Lifestyle

-- The 2.5-hectare Mang Den night quarter has been opened in Kon Tum Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region, featuring art, shopping, cuisine, camping, and tourism activities, a local official said on Saturday.

World News

-- “Leaders of the group of atomic bomb survivors awarded the Nobel Peace Prize warned on Saturday that the risk of nuclear war was rising, renewing their call to abolish nuclear weapons,” according to Reuters.

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