Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 3

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam and Japan pledged to strengthen defense ties during a meeting in Hanoi on Tuesday between General Phan Van Giang, Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense, and General Uchikura Hiroaki, Chief of Staff of the Japan Self-Defense Forces, who is on an official visit to the Southeast Asian nation.

Society

-- Hanoi police have begun testing unmanned aerial vehicles equipped with artificial intelligence to monitor public security and urban order in key areas of Hoan Kiem and Tay Ho Wards, a step toward smarter city management.

-- Four people were safely rescued after a fire broke out inside a minimart in Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon, sending thick black smoke through a three-story building and prompting an emergency response from firefighters.

-- Four people, including a 35-year-old woman and three children aged 5-12, drowned after a boat capsized on the Ngan Pho River in Ha Tinh Province late on Tuesday afternoon, a local official confirmed the same day.

-- A court in An Giang Province on Tuesday approved the extradition request for Baisakov Elnar Narynbekovich, a Kyrgyz national wanted internationally, after authorities located him hiding on Phu Quoc Island.

-- A severe heatwave is forecast to expand across northern and central Vietnam today, with temperatures reaching up to 39 degrees Celsius in some areas, while southern provinces face thunderstorms and localized downpours exceeding 100mm, according to the national weather agency.

-- Vietnam's Drug Administration on Tuesday issued a directive to suspend circulation and order a nationwide recall of a batch of Coop Select feminine hygiene wash after tests found it failed to meet microbiological safety standards.

-- Police in Da Nang have dismantled a drug trafficking ring that allegedly supplied narcotics, including ecstasy and methamphetamine pills, to foreign nationals, leading to the detention of several Vietnamese and foreign suspects.