Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — December 21

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Many residents have welcomed the enforcement of Decree 282 from December 15 to curb noise, calling on authorities to also crack down on other sources of disturbance beyond karaoke and to publish local hotlines for reporting noise violations.

Education

-- Vietnam’s education ministry said it is drafting regulations that would bar universities from using terms such as 'national,' 'international,' 'Vietnam,' 'Ho Chi Minh' or 'state' in their names, and from mixing Vietnamese and foreign languages in Vietnamese-language titles.

Travel

-- Vietnam on Saturday launched Visit Vietnam, a national tourism data platform aimed at providing unified data infrastructure for regulators, businesses, and travelers, organizers said.

-- Vietnam’s Hue City welcomed an estimated 6.3 million visitors and generated more than VND13 trillion (US$494 million) in tourism revenue in 2025, local authorities said at the closing ceremony of the National Tourism Year on Saturday night.

Entertainment

-- Tens of thousands of spectators streamed into Ocean Park 3 in Hung Yen Province, northern Vietnam on Saturday for the 10-hour Y-Concert, which organizers billed as the largest music event ever staged in Vietnam.

-- Yolina Lindquist of the United States beat more than 70 other contestants to win the Miss Cosmo 2025 crown, with the Philippines’ Chelsea Fernandez finishing as runner-up at the final held in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday night.

SEA Games

-- The 2025 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games closed on Saturday night at Bangkok’s Rajamangala Stadium with a brief ceremony, during which the SEA Games flag was handed over to Malaysia, host of the next edition.

Thailand finished top of the medal table with a record 233 gold medals, followed by Indonesia with 91 and Vietnam with 87.

World News

-- “Boeing on Friday asked the Federal Aviation Administration for a waiver of airplane emissions rules to allow it to sell another 35 Boeing 777F freighters, citing strong customer demand and a delay in the next-generation plane’s certification,” Reuters reported.

-- The man suspected of carrying out an attack in Taiwan with a smoke grenade and knife acted alone, police said on Saturday of the incident that killed four, including the attacker, according to Reuters.

-- Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s net worth surged to $749 billion late Friday after the Delaware Supreme Court reinstated Tesla stock options worth $139 billion that were voided last year, according to Forbes’ billionaires index.