Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — April 17

Check out the latest news in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Vietnamese leaders called on South Korea to provide concessional loan support for Vietnam's strategic infrastructure projects, including the Vietnam-Laos railway, and engage in deeper cooperation to develop its cultural and entertainment industries at the meetings with Korean Minister of Foreign Affairs Cho Tae-yul on Wednesday.

-- Party General Secretary To Lam affirmed at the opening ceremony of the fourth Partnership for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) Summit in Hanoi on Wednesday that hosting the summit held significant importance for Vietnam, expressing confidence that it will create new momentum to promote green transition and sustainable development.

-- National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man on Wednesday met with Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali, who is on a four-day official visit to Vietnam and attending the Partnership for Green Growth and the Global Goals 2030 (P4G) Summit, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Police in Thanh Hoa Province, north-central Vietnam announced on Wednesday that they had busted a large-scale ring involved in the production and trading of counterfeit medicines, arresting 14 suspects.

-- Traffic police on Wednesday booked a female driver, 29, for driving in the wrong direction on the Hanoi – Hai Phong Expressway in northern Vietnam.

-- Several four- and five-star restaurants and hotels in Nha Trang, a popular beach city of Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam, have been fined for multiple violations related to setting up umbrellas and lounge chairs for tourism business on the beach.

-- As of April 13, Hanoi had recorded nearly 1,700 cases of measles, with an increase recorded among school-aged children from six to 15 years old.

-- Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong has sent a congratulatory letter to Amanda Nguyen, the first woman of Vietnamese descent to fly into space, expressing joy and pride at the historic milestone of a Vietnamese woman traveling into space, and affirming the talent and intellect of the Vietnamese people in the United States and around the world.

Lifestyle

-- As many as 20 students from an elementary school in China on Wednesday afternoon joined Vietnamese students in Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam in cultural exchange activities to learn about and experience Vietnamese culture, such as decorating non la, or the iconic Vietnamese conical hat, and making pottery.