Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - August 31

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam left Hanoi on Saturday evening for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Summit 2025 and a working visit to China from Sunday to Monday next week at the invitation of the Chinese government.

Society

-- Rescuers in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam, said on Saturday that they had successfully rescued five people who had been stranded in a local spillway for nearly two days due to rising floodwaters.

-- During the early days of the National Day (September 2) holiday, Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the busiest in the country, operated smoothly thanks to T3 Terminal and a series of new technological solutions.

-- On the first day of the National Day (September 2) holiday, the gateways to Ho Chi Minh City were congested with traffic as people left the city for their hometown or tourist attractions.

-- After a housewarming party in Ia Hiao Commune, Gia Lai Province on Thursday, 131 guests began showing symptoms of suspected food poisoning, including stomach pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and fever, and had to be hospitalized for emergency treatment.

Economy

-- More than 250 leading domestic and international businesses attended a conference chaired by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, with the theme "80 years of businesses accompanying the nation,” in Hanoi on Saturday.

Travel

-- Hotels and homestays in Mang Den, Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam have been fully booked during the National Day holiday, according to the local authorities.

Sports

-- The Vietnamese men’s futsal team has climbed to the 26th place in the world, their highest achievement in history, according to the latest FIFA rankings.

World News

-- Indonesian protesters set ablaze regional parliament buildings in three provinces during continuing demonstrations on Saturday, a day after three people were killed in violence that has presented a major test for President Prabowo Subianto, according to Reuters.

-- A divided U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that most of Donald Trump's tariffs are illegal, undercutting the Republican president's use of the levies as a key international economic policy tool, Reuters reported.