Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — October 16

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue and Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Victorovich Volodin held talks in Hanoi on Sunday following a welcome ceremony for the latter earlier the same day.

Society

-- High tide troubled traffic on National Highway 50 connecting Ho Chi Minh City and southern Long An Province on Sunday afternoon.

-- Police in Hanoi on Sunday said that they had arrested a 38-year-old man hailing from northern Thai Binh Province on suspicion of murdering a 17-year-old girl in Hanoi and dismembering her body to destroy the evidence of his crime.

-- Officers in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on Sunday investigated a case where an 83-year-old woman died of heart failure and pulmonary edema and her 55-year-old son was hospitalized after both of them had drunk the same powdered milk.

-- Authorities in Da Nang City, central Vietnam have restricted access to Son Tra Mountain due to falling rocks caused by prolonged heavy rain.

-- In response to the ongoing heavy rainfall and flooding, the Da Nang Department of Education and Training allowed all K-12 students to remain at home on Monday after schools were closed on Friday and Saturday due to the adverse weather conditions.

-- As a result of recent heavy rainfall, the river floodwaters surged and inundated a part of National Highway 1 in Phu Ninh District, central Quang Nam Province, causing difficulty for vehicles in navigating through the waterlogged area on Monday morning.

-- The Nhue and Day Rivers in Hanoi have been seriously polluted for several years with murky water, foul odor, and certain parts clogged with mud and litter.

Sports

-- The Vietnam Football Federation on Sunday set the target for the men’s national team to reach the third qualifying round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Asia.

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