What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- A delegation from the Vietnam Fatherland Front, led by General Secretary of its Central Committee Nguyen Thi Thu Ha, is paying an official visit to India through Monday next week to bolster the traditional friendship and multifaceted collaboration between the two nations, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Medical workers of Vietnamese level-2 field hospital No. 6 have successfully airlifted a critically ill woman with a twin pregnancy to a higher-level health facility in South Sudan while they are engaging with UN peacekeeping activities.

-- The eye of storm Yinxing was spotted some 335 kilometers northeast of Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago at 4:00 am on Sunday, with sustained winds at level 14, or up to 166 kph, and gusts reaching level 17. In the next 24 hours, the storm is forecast to change its direction to move southwest toward the waters off the central region at a maximum speed of 10 kilometers, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- Many provinces and cities in northern Vietnam such as Hanoi, Thai Nguyen, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, and Thai Binh recorded poor air quality on Saturday, posing a threat to public health, according to data released on a website run by the Pollution Control Department, under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

-- A magnitude-3.3 earthquake struck Thanh Thuy District in Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam at a depth of 15.6 kilometers at 4:18 pm on Saturday, causing shakes felt in Ba Vi District, Hanoi, according to the Institute of Geophysics.

-- Authorities in Nha Trang City, south-central province of Khanh Hoa used explosives to break up a large rock atop Cu Hin Mountain on Saturday due to its high risk of rockslides that can threaten the lives of commuters.

Business

-- Vietnam’s national air carrier Vietnam Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding with Chinese travel company GuangZhou Yuanzhilv Technology in Chongqing, China on Friday to bring some 300,000 Chinese tourists to Vietnam from 2024 to 2030.

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