Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Russian President Vladimir Putin, chair of BRICS 2024, on Wednesday evening hosted a welcome ceremony for leaders of countries, territories, and international organizations particpating in the expanded BRICS Summit, including Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Society

-- Authorities in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam on Wednesday successfully detonated a 240kg magnetic bomb believed to be left in the aftermath of the war in Vietnam.

-- The Vietnam Semiconductor Industry Exhibition 2024 is set to take place in Hanoi on November 7-8, attracting global semiconductor giants, such as Global Foundries, AMD, Lam Research, Coherent, Cadence, KLA, Synopsys, Intel, and Marvell.

-- The High People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City has decided to open a trial from November 4 to 25 to consider property tycoon Truong My Lan’s death sentence appeal.

-- The administration in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam plans to evacuate nearly 190,000 people to safety if typhoon Trami is strong and makes landfall in the province, and over 380,000 people if Trami is a super typhoon, according to the provincial steering committee for natural disaster prevention and control, search, and rescue.

-- A magnitude-3.7 earthquake struck Kon Plong District in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on Wednesday evening, according to the Institute of Geophysics.

-- The Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs will present a proposal to the prime minister for a five-day break for the Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers' Day (May 1) holiday and a four-day break for the National Day (September 2) holiday in 2025.

Business

-- In Vietnam, people spent VND227.7 trillion (US$9.5 billion) shopping online in January-September, soaring 37.66 percent year on year, according to a report by e-commerce market research platform Metric.

-- Vietnam’s durian exports hit a record of $2.7 billion in January-September this year but the country also spent nearly $9 million importing durians from Thailand and Malaysia, surging nearly 11.6 times year on year, the Vietnam Fruit and Vegetables Association reported.

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