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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 21

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 21

Saturday, September 21, 2024, 07:27 GMT+7
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 21
Vehicles wade through the flooded Tran Xuan Soan Street in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City during high tides, September 20, 2024. Photo: Le Phan / Tuoi Tre

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi on Saturday morning for a trip to attend the United Nations Summit of the Future and the 79th session of the UN General Assembly, hold working sessions in the U.S., and later pay a state visit to Cuba.

Society

-- From Saturday to Sunday, a low-pressure trough is expected to develop into a low-pressure area that will directly impact the northern East Vietnam Sea and the Gulf of Tonkin, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- High tides exceeding 1.65m, combined with heavy rain, flooded many sections of Tran Xuan Soan Street in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday afternoon, hindering both trade and travel.

-- A flight of the Russian Ministry of Civil Defence, Emergencies and Disaster Relief delivered 35 metric tons of humanitarian aid to Vietnam on Friday to support recovery efforts in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi.

Business

-- Logistics technology company Ninja Van is halting operations at a Vietnam unit, as it seeks to settle matters over delayed salary and social insurance payments to employees there.

-- Gold ring price jumped to a new historic peak of VND80 million (US$3,251.38) per tael in Vietnam on Friday.

-- Eight pangasius exporters from Vietnam have been exempted from anti-dumping tax, following the latest review by the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Lifestyle

-- After a day and night of torrential rain exceeding 500mm upstream, Tan Hoa Commune in Minh Hoa District, Quang Binh Province, north-central Vietnam - recognized as one of the best tourism villages by the United Nations World Tourism Organization - suffered deep flooding in over 400 houses as of Friday noon.

-- The ‘Selection of Masterpieces’ exhibition, organized by the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum and the Hungarian National Gallery to celebrate Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, officially opened on Friday evening. The exhibition features digital copies of nearly 30 masterpieces from Hungary and Europe. It will be on display until September 25, 2024, at the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum, located at 66 Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Ba Dinh District, Hanoi.

Sports

-- Brazilian striker Rafaelson Fernandes has completed the process for Vietnamese citizenship and will play for Thep Xanh Nam Dinh FC under the Vietnamese name Nguyen Xuan Son in the upcoming round of the 2024-25 Vietnamese top-tier V.League 1, a source told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Friday.

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