Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Phan Dinh Trac, chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs, hosted a reception in Hanoi on Friday afternoon for a Chinese delegation led by Minister of Justice He Rong.

-- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang and Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro Moros on Thursday witnessed the signing of five cooperation documents, including memoranda of understanding and letters of intent in the fields of oil and gas, petrochemical refining, telecommunications, and construction materials production, during Deputy PM Quang’s trip to the Latin America from Wednesday to Friday this week.

Business

-- The State Bank of Vietnam announced on Friday that it will put 16,800 taels of SJC-branded gold bars up for auction on Monday next week.

Society

-- The banks of the Ba River running through Ia Pa District of Gia Lai Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands experienced severe land subsidence and posed a threat to the lives of local residents as well as production activities, prompting the provincial administration to declare a state of emergency on Friday.

-- A 57-year-old driver from Hai Duong City under the namesake province in northern Vietnam was confirmed dead after his Mazda CX5 crashed into a river in the city on Friday night.

-- A bus driver and all 22 passengers managed to escape unharmed after a passenger bus caught fire and was completely destroyed while it was traveling on the Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, which links Ho Chi Minh City with southern Dong Nai Province, on Friday afternoon.

World News

-- Some 800,000 people in a Sudanese city are in "extreme and immediate danger" as worsening violence advances and threatens to "unleash bloody intercommunal strife throughout Darfur," top U.N. officials warned the Security Council on Friday, Reuters reported.

-- Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces, an official security force, said its command post at Kalso military base about 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad was hit by a huge explosion late on Friday, and two security sources said it resulted from an air strike, according to Reuters.

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