Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Chairman of Vietnam's lawmaking National Assembly (NA) Tran Thanh Man will lead a high-ranking NA delegation to pay an official visit to Laos and attend the 45th General Assembly of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Assembly from October 17 to 19 at the invitation of Chairman of the Lao NA Saysomphone Phomvihane, the Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the NA’s Committee for External Relations.

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary and State President To Lam on Monday handed over appointment decisions to 16 ambassadors to foreign countries for the 2024-27 tenure.

Society

-- More than 80,000 people, including 200 European billionaires, will participate in the Art for Climate Festival, which is slated for January 13 to 19, 2025, in Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam, according to the portal of the Quang Ninh administration.

-- A heavy rain lasting for nearly two hours on Monday turned many streets in downtown Can Tho City in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta into rivers, causing heavy traffic congestion.

-- Traffic police in Hanoi dealt with over 82,000 traffic regulation violations from January to September. Among these, more than 17,500 drivers were found committing alcohol-related offenses.

-- A drone that a local resident used to spray pesticides crashed into a 110kV power transmission line in Long An Province, located in southern Vietnam, causing a power blackout for 76,000 households and units in five districts across the province on Sunday.

-- Three people were hospitalized for fainting while participating in a night-time running event in Ho Chi Minh City, a doctor at the hospital that admitted the three told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday.

World News

-- “Three U.S.-based academics won the 2024 Nobel economics prize on Monday for research that explored the aftermath of colonisation to understand why global inequality persists today, especially in countries dogged by corruption and dictatorship,” according to Reuters.

-- “Alphabet's Google said on Monday it signed the world's first corporate agreement to buy power from multiple small modular reactors to meet electricity demand for artificial intelligence,” Reuters reported.

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