Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - October 28

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Party General Secretary To Lam, his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly, and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation departed Hanoi early on Tuesday for a three-day official visit to the UK at the invitation of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Monday continued a series of high-level meetings with foreign leaders and international organizations while attending the 28th ASEAN Plus Three Summit and the 26th ASEAN-South Korea Summit in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Society

-- Flood levels on the Thu Bon and Vu Gia Rivers in Da Nang City receded only slightly on Tuesday morning, leaving many neighborhoods still under one to 1.5 meters of water.

-- The national weather agency reported that from Tuesday through Wednesday, the central Vietnamese provinces and cities from southern Quang Tri to Da Nang and the eastern part of Quang Ngai will possibly experience heavy to extremely heavy rainfall, with localized precipitation likely exceeding 800mm across Hue and Da Nang.

-- As floodwaters on the Huong River in Hue City rose to touch the underside of the Bach Ho railway bridge late on Monday, Vietnam Railways deployed a 19-car freight train loaded with about 660 metric tons of rock to anchor the structure and prevent it from being swept away.

-- Police are investigating a fatal altercation between two ninth-grade students that occurred at a football field in Noi Bai Commune, Hanoi last Saturday evening.

-- Police in Lang Son Province have detained four foreign nationals suspected of involvement in the stabbing of a taxi driver on National Highway 1A, near the Vietnam-China border, authorities said on Monday.

Economy

-- The administration of Bac Ninh Province has approved a new road project worth nearly VND1 trillion (US$38 million) to connect Quang Chau and Van Trung Industrial Parks, two of the province’s busiest manufacturing hubs, authorities confirmed on Monday.

Education

-- The Da Nang People’s Committee has ordered an accelerated schedule for the construction of six multi-level boarding schools in border communes, with total funding of VND1.5 trillion ($57 million) from the central government budget.

World News

-- Amazon is planning to cut as many as 30,000 corporate jobs beginning on Tuesday, as the company pares expenses and compensates for overhiring during the peak demand of the pandemic, according to three people familiar with the matter, Reuters reported.

-- Gold prices fell below $4,000 per ounce on Monday as signs of a thaw in U.S.-China trade tensions reduced some of the bullion's safe-haven appeal, while market participants awaited the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest rate decision this week, according to Reuters.