Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — April 21

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Infrastructure

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested that the Can Tho–Ca Mau Expressway project be completed by December 19 this year during his working trip to inspect the project on Sunday.

-- Authorities in Phu Quoc City, off Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam, are working with relevant agencies to survey and conduct geological drilling as part of the preparations to expand Phu Quoc International Airport ahead of the APEC 2027 summit.

-- Vietnam’s government needs to allocate VND6.5 trillion (US$251.2 million) in state budget funds to help finance the expansion of the Ho Chi Minh City–Long Thanh–Dau Giay Expressway, a project with a total estimated cost of VND16.314 trillion ($630.6 million), according to a proposal by the Ministry of Construction.

Governance

-- A Hanoi court on Monday began the first-instance trial of former Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Hoang Quoc Vuong, who is accused of deliberately altering language in a draft document to benefit a power firm, causing state utility EVN losses of more than VND1 trillion ($38.6 million).

Economy

-- Chuong Duong Beverages JSC, the maker of Chuong Duong soft drinks, expects to post a loss of more than VND80 billion ($3 million) this year, marking its fifth consecutive year in the red.

-- Ho Chi Minh City received $2.41 billion in remittances in the first quarter of 2025, equivalent to 25.3 percent of the total of 2024, according to official data.

Sports

-- Liverpool will have to wait for a few more days to be crowned Premier league champions despite a 1-0 victory at Leicester City after Arsenal kept their slender hopes just about alive with a 4-0 romp at 10-man Ipswich Town on Sunday, according to Reuters.

-- Manchester United suffered their 15th Premier League defeat of the season with a 0-1 loss to Wolverhampton on Sunday, marking their most home losses in a league campaign since 1962–63 and highlighting the club’s continued struggles, according to Sky Sports.

World News

-- Pope Francis entered St. Peter’s Square on Sunday in an open-air popemobile for the first time since surviving double pneumonia, greeting tens of thousands of Catholics after the Vatican's celebration of Easter Mass, Reuters reported.