Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s State President Luong Cuong, accompanied by a high-ranking delegation, visited and laid a wreath at the statue of President Ho Chi Minh in a park named after the late Vietnamese leader in Santiago on Sunday morning (local time), as part of their official visit to Chile.

Society

-- On Sunday night and early Monday morning, typhoon Yinxing, the seventh to hit the East Vietnam Sea this year, continued to weaken rapidly, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting. By 4:00 am on Monday, the eye of the storm was located north of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago, with winds reaching 62-74kph. The storm is forecast to move southwest toward the mid-central coast later on Monday, weakening into a tropical depression over the sea between Quang Ngai and Binh Dinh Provinces.

-- Meanwhile, typhoon Toraji, which was located in the sea east of Luzon Island in the Philippines as of 1:00 am on Monday, continues to strengthen with winds of 118-133kph and is expected to enter the East Vietnam Sea on Monday night, becoming the eighth storm on the sea this year.

-- The main cause of air pollution in Hanoi is a combination of traffic emissions, industrial activities, and construction dust, with a significant contribution from the large number of vehicles using fossil fuels and inadequate pollution control measures in construction projects, according to Nguyen Hoang Anh, deputy head of the environmental quality management unit at the Pollution Control Department under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment.

Lifestyle

-- According to data from The Box Office Vietnam, American Christmas action-adventure fantasy comedy film ‘Red One,’ starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, topped the box office last weekend, earning over VND10 billion (US$395,648) within its three opening days.

Sports

-- Vietnam missed the chance to claim its first-ever regional futsal championship, suffering a 0-2 defeat against Indonesia in the final of the ASEAN Futsal Championship 2024 in Thailand on Sunday.

-- Thousands of martial arts fans filled Nguyen Du Sports Hall in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday afternoon to witness the performance of 12 Japanese martial artists at the Japanese Martial Arts Performance Festival, organized by the Nippon Budokan Public Financial Organization, the Japan Martial Arts Association, the Ho Chi Minh City Union of Friendship Organizations, and the Vietnam-Japan Friendship Association.

World News

-- An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.8, as recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey, rocked eastern Cuba on Sunday, shaking buildings in Santiago de Cuba, the island country’s second-largest city, and the surrounding countryside, according to Reuters.

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