What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Peruvian President Dina Ercilia Boluarte Zegarra hosted a solemn welcome ceremony for Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong and a high-ranking delegation from Vietnam at the Government Palace (Casa de Pizarro) in Lima on Wednesday afternoon (local time), reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- A female teacher at Le Quy Don Middle School in Duy Xuyen District under Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam has been suspended from work after beating a sixth-grade student with a ruler, causing several bruises on his legs on Monday.

-- Police in Hoa Binh Province, northern Vietnam busted an infant trafficking ring, arresting four women hailing from Ho Chi Minh City, Gia Lai Province and Ha Giang Province, an officer said on Wednesday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said on Wednesday evening that the 115 Emergency Center had won the gold emergency medical services (EMS) Angels Award for prehospital stroke care.

Business

-- Vietnam Foodexpo 2024 kicked off at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday, featuring more than 500 booths of nearly 400 enterprises from Vietnam’s localities and more than 20 countries and territories such as Germany, Spain, the EU, Russia, Japan, South Korea, China, India and Thailand. The event runs until Saturday.

-- Vietnam will experience significant wind power growth driven by its untapped offshore potential, which is estimated at 475GW according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade, as well as investment from foreign developers. Vietnam’s wind capacity is forecast to double between 2024 and 2033, from 7.5GW to 14.7GW, with an average yearly growth rate of 9.2 percent, according to a recent report from BMI, a unit of Fitch Solutions.

Lifestyle

-- Authorities in Soc Trang Province, southern Vietnam opened the Oc Om Boc Festival of the Khmer ethnic people, or the moon worshipping festival, on Wednesday night.

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