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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 7

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 7

Friday, June 07, 2024, 08:23 GMT+7
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 7
Striker Nguyen Tien Linh celebrates his goal in a match between Vietnam and the Philippines, as part of the second round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for Asia at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on June 6, 2024. Photo: Hoang Tung / Tuoi Tre

What you need to know in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam is deeply concerned about and resolutely opposes the illegal survey operations conducted by China’s Hai Yang 26 in Vietnam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf as established under the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982), the Foreign Ministry's spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said at the ministry’s regular press briefing in Hanoi on Thursday.

-- Vietnam, together with the international community, calls on the U.S. to remove Cuba from the list of sponsors of terrorism, and lift its embargo against the latter, spokeswoman Hang said the same day.

Business

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh suggested FedEx Express expand activities in Vietnam and invest in the Long Thanh International Airport project in the southern province of Dong Nai at his reception for the U.S.-based company's president and CEO Richard W. Smith in Hanoi on Thursday, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Two men were dismantling a house in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi when a wall collapsed on Thursday afternoon, leaving one dead and the other wounded, said an official.

-- A passenger coach plowed into a group of motorcycles stopping at a red light on National Highway 1 in Ben Luc District, Long An Province, located in southern Vietnam, on Thursday afternoon, killing one and injuring several other people.

-- The Netherlands and Ho Chi Minh City can exchange experience and cooperate in the fight against urban flooding as both sides are stepping up efforts in flood control, Vincent Karremans, vice mayor of Rotterdam, said during his visit to the Sala urban area and the flooding risk management project in Thu Duc City on Thursday morning.

Sports

-- Vietnam beat the Philippines 3-2 in the fifth match of four-team Group F in the second round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers for Asia at My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on Thursday evening.

World News

-- SpaceX's Starship rocket survived a fiery, hypersonic return from space and achieved a breakthrough landing demonstration in the Indian Ocean on Thursday, completing a full test mission around the globe on the rocket's fourth try, reported Reuters.

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