Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 20

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A major landslide struck Nua Ban Mountain in Nghe An Province at around 5:00 pm on Saturday, isolating more than 300 households with over 1,100 residents, with most of them members of the Thai ethnic minority, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Heavy downpours swept across north-central Vietnam on Saturday, with Vinh in Nghe An receiving 399 mm of rain in just six hours, breaking the September daily rainfall record set 41 years ago (387.9 mm in 1985).

-- Three workers were injured after scaffolding collapsed at a construction project in Can Tho City on Saturday afternoon.

-- Doctors from Cho Ray Hospital and Sun Group International Hospital have successfully treated two heart attack patients in Phu Quoc Special Zone, an island off An Giang Province, eliminating the need to transfer them to mainland medical facilities, a Cho Ray Hospital doctor confirmed on Saturday.

-- The Ministry of Health has proposed expanding smoke-free areas, including making all educational institutions completely smoke-free and banning indoor smoking at airports, trains, ships and tourist accommodation facilities, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Economy

-- Golden Gate, Vietnam’s leading restaurant chain operator, inaugurated a new food processing plant in Phu Tho Province with an investment of more than VND600 billion (US$23 million) on Saturday, marking its second major facility in three years.

-- Japanese retail group Saeki Selva Holdings is recruiting Vietnamese workers for training in Japan, with plans to bring them back to manage stores it expects to open in Vietnam, according to Nikkei Asia.

-- Ten more Vietnamese products from Vinamilk, K Coffee, and Richy have been added to the shelves of 48 Fiesta Mart stores in Texas, expanding the presence of Vietnamese goods in major U.S. retail chains, according to LNS, which connects and distributes Vietnamese products in the U.S.

-- The Vietnamese dong (VND) has appreciated about 1 percent against the U.S. dollar year-to-date, dropping from VND26,300 per USD at the end of 2025 to VND26,000 on the interbank market and VND25,800 on the informal market. This rare reversal has led residents to prefer selling cash USD to commercial banks rather than on the black market, according to Dinh Duc Quang, head of Global Markets at UOB Vietnam.