Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — April 8

Check out the latest news in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh led a high-ranking delegation to attend the memorial service for former President of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and former President of Laos Khamtay Siphandone in Vientiane on Monday.

Society

-- Social media is buzzing with a video showing a tour guide instructing a group of tourists to pose for photos in the middle of a street in Mang Den Town, Kon Tum Province, located in Vietnam's Central Highlands region, despite the heavy traffic.

-- The forest protection unit in Cam Lo District - Dong Ha City in Quang Tri Province, located in north-central Vietnam, on Monday confirmed the sighting of a flock of hundreds of rare Asian openbill storks in Cam Lo over the past month.

-- Vietnamese rescue forces in Myanmar will return to Vietnam on Tuesday afternoon, marking the end of their mission to assist the people of Myanmar in the aftermath of the magnitude-7.7 earthquake on March 28, a representative of the rescue team of the Ministry of Public Security said on Monday.

-- An unleashed dog, suspected of having rabies, bit several people in southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province on Saturday last week, injuring at least five people, including children, local authorities reported.

Business

-- A delegation from Long An Province, southern Vietnam signed several important memorandums of understanding and cooperation agreements with major Japanese corporations at a recent investment promotion program held in Japan, the Long An administration said on Monday.

-- Despite the government’s efforts, it is important to always be prepared for the worst-case scenario if the U.S. imposes a 46-percent reciprocal tariff on Vietnamese goods without a delay, Minister of Agriculture and Environment Do Duc Duy said at a meeting on Monday.

World News

-- A global trade war touched off by U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs escalated further on Monday, as Trump threatened to increase duties on China and the European Union proposed counter-tariffs of its own, Reuters reported.