Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - May 17

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam and Thailand have elevated their relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh announced at a joint press briefing with his Thai counterpart Paetongtarn Shinawatra in Hanoi on Friday.

Society

-- Five workers are missing and four injured after a landslide struck the construction site of Ta Pao Ho 1A hydropower plant in northern Lai Chau Province on Friday, prompting PM Chinh to issue an urgent directive for rescue efforts and an investigation.

-- Following a magnitude-5.0 earthquake at noon on Friday, Muong Cha District in northern Dien Bien Province was struck by another quake measuring 4.0 on the Richter scale at 2:16 pm the same day, with noticeable tremors but no damage reported, according to the Institute of Earth Sciences.

-- Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem District plans to demolish the iconic ‘Shark Jaw’ building by late May as part of a major redevelopment of Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc Square, a district official confirmed on Friday.

-- Northern Vietnam is expected to see widespread showers and thunderstorms today. In central Vietnam, the weather could remain sunny with isolated hot spots during the day. Meanwhile, the Central Highlands and southern regions will possibly experience intermittent sunshine with scattered showers and thunderstorms expected in the late afternoon, according to the national weather center.

-- Police in north-central Thanh Hoa Province said on Friday that they had initiated legal proceedings against two Chinese nationals--Shen Jiangyang, 43, and Deng Zhiji, 41--for desecrating the tomb of King Le Tuc Tong in search of buried artifacts.

-- MENA OCOP – Tourism Gift Festival 2025, a 10-day cultural and tourism promotion event, kicked off on Friday at Menas Mall Saigon Airport, located in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District, featuring over 700 local specialties and handicrafts from across Vietnam.

Sports

-- The Vietnam women's national football team lost 1-4 to Germany's Werder Bremen at Hanoi’s Hang Day Stadium on Friday, in a friendly held to mark 50 years of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Germany.

World News

-- Acute food insecurity and child malnutrition rose for a sixth consecutive year in 2024, affecting more than 295 million people across 53 countries and territories, Reuters reported, citing a UN report released on Friday.

-- Brazil, the world's largest chicken exporter, confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a poultry farm on Friday, triggering protocols for a country-wide trade ban from top buyer China and state-wide restrictions for other major consumers, according to Reuters.