Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — January 9

Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam on Thursday sent a letter of congratulation to Thongloun Sisoulith on his re-election as General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee for the 12th term.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- The ‘feels-like’ temperature in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday morning dropped to 17 degrees Celsius according to mobile weather applications, while the actual temperature recorded at 4:00 am in the city’s central area was 20 degrees Celsius.

-- Ho Chi Minh City chairman Nguyen Van Duoc on Thursday afternoon received U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper for a farewell visit ahead of the ambassador’s completion of his term and return to the United States.

-- Canadian Secretary of State for International Development Randeep Sarai visited the Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, as part of his working visit to Vietnam.

-- A series of supermarkets in Ho Chi Minh City have simultaneously reviewed products from Ha Long Canned Food Joint Stock Corporation in Hai Phong City and agreed to offer exchanges to customers, following the discovery of a major food safety case involving more than 130 metric tons of pork infected with African swine fever that had been stored for canned meat production at the firm’s warehouse.

-- The Book Street in Ho Chi Minh City has generated revenue of over VND433 billion (US$16.5 million) over the past 10 years.

Society

-- A fire that erupted at a seven-story house in Hanoi on Thursday morning left two people dead, while L.T.T., 66, the homeowner, was pronounced dead at Ha Dong General Hospital after jumping from the sixth floor onto the roof of a neighboring building to escape the flames.

-- A three-year-old boy in Hai Phong City, northern Vietnam was attacked by his family’s pet dog last week, suffering a penetrating chest wound that caused bleeding and a right-sided pneumothorax, according to the National Children’s Hospital in Hanoi.