Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — April 30
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 07:49 GMT+7
What you need to know today in Vietnam:
Society
-- Vietnam accommodated more than 6.2 million international visitors in the first four months of this year, up 68.3 percent year on year and 3.9 percent compared to the same period in 2019, the Vietnam News Agency reported, citing the General Statistics Office.
-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday deported nine Malaysians after they entered Vietnam to make scam calls, targeting their compatriots and people in other countries.
-- Fish have died en masse in the Song May Lake in Dong Nai Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, giving off a foul odor over the past few days.
-- Vietnamese taxicab firm Mai Linh has granted a certificate of merit to an employee for returning a bag containing over VND300 million (US$11,843) in cash to a passenger who left it at Da Nang International Airport in the namesake central city on Friday last week.
-- Many tourist sites in Can Tho City, southern Vietnam have seen a decline in the number of tourists during the ongoing Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers' Day (May 1) holiday due to the scorching hot weather.
Sports
-- Many Vietnamese netizens have expressed a backlash against the participation of Vietnamese singers, influencers, and streamers in a match featuring former Brazilian football stars Rivaldo, Giovanni, Kleberson, and Paulo Sergio in Da Nang City, central Vietnam on Saturday last week.
Lifestyle
-- A hotel in Hoi An, an internationally famous tourist city in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam, has hung 80 Vietnamese national flags on all of its balconies to introduce Vietnam’s Reunification Day (April 30) and International Workers' Day (May 1) holiday to foreign tourists.
World News
-- “Energy ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major democracies reached a deal to shut down their coal-fired power plants in the first half of the 2030s, in a significant step towards the transition away from fossil fuels,” according to Reuters.
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