Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — March 16

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Voter turnout in elections for the National Assembly and local People’s Councils in Vietnam reached 99.67 percent nationwide as of after 11:00 pm on Sunday, an official from the National Election Council of Vietnam said.

Society

-- Northern and central Vietnam see light rain to showers on Monday, while the south experiences hot and humid conditions.

-- Border guards in Quang Ninh Province, northern Vietnam said on Sunday they had detained a Chinese man suspected of smuggling gold across the border.

-- Border guards in Quang Ngai Province, south-central Vietnam said on Sunday they had caught a man transporting nearly 100 kg of a solid substance suspected to be explosive on Ly Son Island, which he initially said was intended for use on fishing boats.

Travel

-- Sun PhuQuoc Airways on Sunday launched a direct route between Phu Quoc Island, off An Giang Province in southern Vietnam, and Nha Trang in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam.

Education

-- Authorities in Hanoi said in a newly released capital master plan that the city plans to relocate universities and colleges with small campuses or inadequate facilities out of the central urban area and halt construction of new higher-education institutions there.

Sports

-- The ‘Finalissima’ match between Spain and Argentina that was scheduled to be held in Qatar has been cancelled due to the conflict in the Middle East while the South American side rejected multiple alternatives, Reuters quoted UEFA as saying ‌on Sunday.

World

-- “KPop Demon Hunters” won the Oscar for best animated feature on Sunday, capping a record-breaking run ‌after becoming Netflix’s most‑watched film ever on its 2025 debut, according to Reuters.

-- “Britain will invest an additional 1 billion pounds (US$1.3 billion) to unlock jobs for young people, the government will say on Monday, part of a drive to reduce the high numbers of 16- to 24-year-olds not ‌in education, employment or training,” Reuters reported.