Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - February 7

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s General Party Secretary To Lam, President of the Cambodian People’s Party Hun Sen and General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Thongloun Sisoulith co-chaired a meeting of the chiefs of the three Parties in Phnom Penh on Friday.

Society

-- A strong cold air mass moved into Vietnam early on Saturday morning, bringing sharp drops in temperature, strong winds, and widespread rain, according to the national weather center.

-- The Vietnamese Embassy in South Korea on Friday sent a diplomatic note expressing its position regarding remarks deemed disrespectful towards Vietnamese women made by South Jeolla Province’s Jindo County chief Kim Hee Soo, who suggested “importing young women from Sri Lanka or Vietnam” to marry rural men as a solution to population decline.

-- Railway authorities have temporarily suspended train services across Hanoi’s historic Long Bien Bridge after a key steel connection plate fractured, raising safety concerns on the 124-year-old structure, according to Vietnam Railways.

-- A sanitation worker in Thanh Hoa Province has returned a lost bag containing VND40 million (US$1,550) in cash and a savings book worth VND1.4 billion ($54,200) after finding the bag while sweeping streets on Thursday.

-- Da Nang will host a wide range of cultural and entertainment activities during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, including large-scale fireworks displays across the coastal city and expanded celebrations in the ancient town of Hoi An, local authorities announced on Friday.

-- Police in Da Nang have dismantled a large-scale counterfeit coffee operation that mixed chemicals and soy powder to produce nearly one metric ton of fake coffee each day, officials announced on Friday.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Ho Chi Minh City leaders on Friday met with a delegation of the Committee on National Security of the Hungarian National Assembly led by Committee Chairman Zoltán Sas to discuss expanding cooperation in security, economy, education, and people-to-people exchanges, reinforcing the comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and Hungary.

-- Ho Chi Minh City plans to fully pay tuition fees for medical residents under a new policy aimed at training top young medical talent, the city’s health chief said, marking a breakthrough in training high-quality healthcare professionals.