Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva attended the Vietnam-Brazil Economic Forum in Hanoi on Saturday during the top Brazilian leader’s state visit to Vietnam, calling for stronger trade and investment ties between the two countries.

Society

-- A 79-member Vietnamese military rescue team is expected to depart for Myanmar on Sunday afternoon to support post-earthquake recovery efforts, Senior Lieutenant General Huynh Chien Thang, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army, told a meeting on Saturday.

-- Between March 31 and April 3, daytime heat will ease and cloud cover will increase in southern Vietnam, including Ho Chi Minh City, while moderate to heavy showers are expected in the evenings, with potential for thunderstorms, lightning, and strong gusts, according to the Southern Regional Hydro-Meteorological Center.

-- The Ministry of Public Security has concluded an investigation into Hoang Quoc Hung, former director of the National Center for Criminal Records, under the Ministry of Justice, accusing him of accepting over VND43 billion (US$1.7 million) in bribes between 2019 and 2023 to process tens of thousands of legal documents.

-- The Ministry of Health has confirmed that Vietnam is experiencing the fastest population aging rate in Asia, with a shift from an aging society to an aged one projected to take just 17-20 years, far shorter than other nations.

Business

-- A delegation of 34 top CEOs from leading Belgian and EU companies specializing in various sectors will accompany Belgian King Philippe and Queen Mathilde during their upcoming state visit to Vietnam from Monday to Friday next week, said Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Thi Thu Hang at a recent press briefing.

-- Ho Chi Minh City leaders met with major companies and investors at a business forum on Saturday, where they outlined major urban projects and called for deeper collaboration with hi-tech firms.

Education

-- Vietnam National University-Hanoi has officially established the Institute for Semiconductors and Advanced Materials, whose mission is to research, develop, and apply advanced semiconductor and materials technologies to serve Vietnam’s hi-tech and electronics industries.

World News

-- Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years, Reuters reported.

-- Japan's fast-food chain Sukiya will shut nearly all of its roughly 2,000 stores nationwide for four days from Monday following recent incidents of customers finding a rodent in a bowl of miso soup and a bug in another meal, it said on its website on Saturday, according to Reuters.

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