Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — May 28

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Hungarian President Sulyok Tamas and his spouse, Nagy Zsuzsanna, arrived in Hanoi on Tuesday evening, beginning their official visit to Vietnam that lasts until Thursday, at the invitation of Vietnamese State President Luong Cuong.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with Chinese Premier Li Qiang on Tuesday, on the sidelines of his official visit to Malaysia and attendance at the 46th ASEAN Summit and related meetings in Kuala Lumpur.

Society

-- Northern Vietnam sees mostly cloudy skies on Wednesday with increasing rain in the evening, while parts of the central region experience heavy showers and rainfall returns to the south, the national weather agency said.

-- Police in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam have arrested a 23-year-old local man accused of snatching the handbag of a New Zealand tourist in Hoi An last week, authorities said.

-- A batch of Adaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser, produced by Ho Chi Minh City-based Gamma Chemicals Co., has been pulled from shelves and ordered to be destroyed nationwide after testing found two undeclared preservatives in the product, authorities said.

Economy

-- Viettel has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with South Korea’s KT Corporation to jointly advance AI-powered digital transformation in Vietnam.

Travel

-- Hanoi will launch a new night tour in August, featuring a 90-minute live cultural performance at Quan Thanh Temple, one of the city’s four sacred guardian temples. The weekly show is expected to host up to 100 guests per session, local authorities said on Monday.

Sports

-- Manchester United will face the ASEAN All-Stars, featuring four Vietnamese players, in a football friendly at 7:45 pm on Wednesday at Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

World News

-- The U.S. has stopped recommending routine COVID-19 vaccinations for pregnant women and healthy children, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr announced in a social media post on Tuesday, circumventing the CDC’s traditional recommendation process, according to Reuters.

-- French lower house lawmakers approved a bill on Tuesday to legalize assisted dying, paving the way for France to become the latest European nation to allow terminally ill people to end their lives, Reuters reported.