Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 30

What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Russian State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin on Monday had separate meetings with Vietnam’s Party General Secretary To Lam, State President Luong Cuong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Society

-- Police in Cho Lon Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, have taken action against seven illegal parking lots occupying sidewalks and roadways near the University Medical Center, Cho Ray Hospital, and Hung Vuong Hospital during the four days leading up to Monday.

-- A 15-minute tornado on Monday in Hai Phong City, northern Vietnam, injured two people and blew away many metal roofs along with some crops.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People's Council on Monday morning passed a resolution to establish the Department of Planning and Architecture by transferring certain functions and responsibilities from the Department of Construction.

-- Vietnamese military and police forces carried a 75-year-old female patient from Laos in a hammock over a distance of five kilometers to safely bring her home after she was discharged from Da Nang Hospital on Monday.

-- Police in Da Nang City, central Vietnam, in coordination with the local immigration agency, recently rescued a Chinese man who was being held captive in a guesthouse by three fellow countrymen demanding repayment of gambling debts.

Economy

-- Ho Chi Minh City ranked 95th out of 120 cities on the recently released Global Financial Centres Index 38, up three places since the March 2025 assessment, surpassing Thailand’s Bangkok for the first time.

Travel

-- Hanoi welcomed over 5.5 million international visitors and 20.5 million domestic tourists in January-September 2025, according to a report by the municipal Department of Tourism released on Monday.

-- The first flight of Russian airline Nordwind Airlines from Moscow landed at Cam Ranh International Airport in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam, at 12:35 pm on Monday, bringing 379 passengers to the province after a five-year hiatus.