What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday evening (local time, early Friday morning in Vietnam), as part of his participation in the expanded BRICS leaders' summit in Kazan, Russia.

-- General Secretary To Lam welcomed Tan Sri Dato' Johari bin Abdul, Speaker of the Malaysian House of Representatives, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters in Hanoi on Thursday.

-- From October 20 to 23, Major General Pham Manh Thang, director of the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations, led a delegation on an official visit to Germany to strengthen bilateral cooperation in United Nations peacekeeping efforts.

-- On Thursday, during his participation in the expanded BRICS leaders’ summit in Kazan, Russia, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held meetings with the president of Venezuela, the foreign minister of Cuba, and the economy minister of Malaysia.

Business

-- In the first nine months of this year, Vietnam's rice exports to China dropped 72 percent compared to the same period in 2023, reaching only 241,000 tonnes, down from previous levels of over one million tonnes per month, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

-- At around 10:00 am on Thursday, the Kien Giang Investment, Trade, and Tourism Promotion Center, in collaboration with the Phu Quoc City People’s Committee and the provincial Department of Tourism, welcomed around 400 tourists from Czechia to the island for sightseeing and leisure.

-- The Tien Giang Department of Industry and Trade, in collaboration with Fado iExport Joint Stock Company, held a launch ceremony on Thursday afternoon for the first shipment of fresh Tien Giang coconuts exported to China.

Society

-- After nearly 20 years of use, the An Cu 5 apartment complex in Phuoc My Ward, Son Tra District, Da Nang City has fallen into serious disrepair, leaving residents increasingly uneasy.

-- The Ministry of Health said on Thursday that several major hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City have resolved issues related to shortages of medications, medical supplies, and equipment. The only shortages now occur with certain rare, low-cost medicines or those seldom used by the hospitals, primarily due to supply chain disruptions.

Lifestyle

-- A press conference was held in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday to announce the Cho Lon Food Story Festival 2024 with the theme 'Delicacies of Noodles and Cakes.' The event, organized by the District 5 Economic Office in collaboration with the District 5 Cultural and Sports Center, will take place from December 6 to 8.

World News

-- "Current climate policies will result in global warming of more than 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 degrees Fahrenheit) by the end of the century, according to a United Nations report on Thursday, more than twice the rise agreed to nearly a decade ago," Reuters reported.

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