Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — June 25
Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 06:54 GMT+7
What you need to know today in Vietnam:
Politics
-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with his Chinese counterpart Li Qiang in China’s Dalian City on Monday as part of the former’s trip to the neighboring country for the 15th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions on June 24-27.
Society
-- Leaders of China’s Dalian Locomotive & Rolling Stock Co. Ltd. and Power Construction Corporation of China expressed their interest in urban railway and energy projects in Vietnam as well as railway projects connecting the two countries at separate meetings with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in China's Dalian City on Monday.
-- A construction hoist fell as its cable broke, killing three workers and injuring seven others in the hoist at the construction site of a kindergarten upgrade project in Hanoi on Monday.
-- Two siblings drowned after the 11-year-old brother attempted to save his seven-year-old sister while they were swimming in a river in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam on Monday.
-- The Department of Construction in Hanoi told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Monday that it would check and handle a case in which a worker used water from a tank truck to water trees on a street while it was raining heavily in the capital city. An image of the case has surfaced on social media.
Business
-- Heineken Vietnam Brewery, the leader of the Vietnamese beer market, on Monday confirmed that it had shut down its brewery in Quang Nam Province in the central region.
World News
-- “Beijing wants the EU to scrap plans to impose preliminary tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports by July 4, after both sides agreed to negotiate a possible compromise,” Reuters quoted China's state-controlled Global Times as saying.
-- "Regional authorities in Brazil on Monday declared a state of emergency as the Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetlands, faces 'out of control fires'," AFP reported, citing a decree.
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