Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - February 19

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Party General Secretary To Lam arrived in the United States at noon on Wednesday (local time) to begin a three-day working visit at the invitation of U.S. President Donald Trump, leading Vietnam’s delegation to the inaugural meeting of the Gaza Board of Peace.

Society

-- Hospitals across Vietnam welcomed 2,011 newborns on Wednesday, the second day of the Lunar New Year, according to a Ministry of Health report.

-- A fatal traffic accident on National Highway 28 in Lam Dong Province killed three members of a family on Wednesday, when a motorcycle carrying a married couple and their 10-year-old son collided head-on with a car, local authorities said.

-- Southern Vietnam is forecast to experience hot conditions with temperatures reaching 35 degrees Celsius on Thursday, while the northern region may remain cold and rainy, according to the national weather center.

-- Police in Bac Ninh Province fined a bus operator and driver a total of VND217.5 million (US$8,400) on Wednesday after discovering a 21-seat passenger bus carrying 50 people, following a public tip-off and on-site inspection, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

-- Police in Tay Ninh Province on Wednesday confirmed they had detained a 29-year-old man for allegedly stabbing his girlfriend’s father to death shortly after midnight on Lunar New Year’s Eve, after the victim reportedly opposed their relationship.

World News

-- At least 37 miners died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a mining site in Nigeria’s Plateau state, a police source and a security report seen by Reuters said on Wednesday.

-- Canada introduced new immigration priority categories on Wednesday to bring in skilled workers in fields ranging from research and health care to aviation, and to include certain military recruits, according to Reuters.