Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — June 12

What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- After wrapping up bilateral activities in France, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and the high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Stockholm on Wednesday evening (local time), commencing an official visit to Sweden until Saturday at the invitation of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson.

-- Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and his spouse Diana Nausediene, along with a high-ranking delegation of Lithuania, landed in Hanoi on Wednesday evening, beginning an official visit to Vietnam through Thursday at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong.

-- Vietnam joined 54 other nations at the Indo Defence Expo and Forum, which opened in Jakarta on Wednesday, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- The eye of storm Wutip was spotted in the western waters of Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago at 4:00 am on Thursday, with the strongest winds reaching levels 8-9 (62-88 km/h), and gusts up to level 11, according to the national weather center.

-- The People’s Committee of Da Nang City in central Vietnam on Wednesday afternoon urged local authorities to get ready to evacuate residents from flood- and landslide-prone areas ahead of storm Wutip.

-- Three retail outlets in Soc Trang Province, southern Vietnam, operated by C.P. Vietnam, a subsidiary of Thailand's Charoen Pokphand Foods Public Company Limited, on Wednesday were fined a total of VND105 million (US$4,030) for expired food safety certification.

Economy

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh called on French enterprises to strengthen cooperation with Vietnamese partners in technology transfer and workforce training, and beef up the use of Vietnamese input products while attending the France-Vietnam Business Forum held in Paris on Wednesday (local time).

-- Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has agreed with the Ministry of Construction’s proposal to allow it to issue an air transport business license to Sun PhuQuoc Airways.

Education

-- Russia offers 1,000 scholarships annually to Vietnamese citizens at undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, internship, and Russian language training levels, heard a working session between Deputy Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Van Phuc and a delegation from Bauman Moscow State Technical University on Wednesday.