Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — January 28

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Politburo member Tran Cam Tu on Tuesday presided over a farewell ceremony in Hanoi for Lao Party General Secretary and President Thongloun Sisoulith and a senior delegation, marking the conclusion of the Lao leader’s two-day state visit to Vietnam.

Society

-- Hanoi plans to relocate about 860,000 residents over the next decade as part of a sweeping urban restructuring of areas including the Red River corridor, West Lake, and the Old Quarter.

-- Traffic police in south-central Vietnam fined many long-haul bus passengers who failed to wear seat belts and drivers who transported them on the Cam Lam–Vinh Hao expressway during a patrol on Tuesday, with penalties of VND350,000–400,000 (US$13.4–15.3) for passengers and VND800,000–1 million ($30.6–38.3) for drivers.

-- The Vietnam Food Safety Authority on Tuesday issued an urgent warning over several infant formula products suspected of contamination with cereulide, a heat-stable toxin produced by Bacillus cereus, following international recalls reported by food safety regulators in Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.

-- Hanoi police said on Tuesday they had opened a criminal case and charged three environmental company directors over the illegal dumping of about 7,830 tonnes of construction waste on a 2,332-square-meter site in Bat Trang Commune since 2023.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Ho Chi Minh City’s health department said on Wednesday it had stepped up surveillance and isolation measures for travelers from affected areas after cases of the Nipah virus were reported in India’s West Bengal State.

-- Japan’s Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Masuo Ono, said on Tuesday that Vietnam has developed rapidly and become an indispensable partner for Japan, as he was speaking at an event marking Emperor Naruhito’s 66th birthday that was attended by Ho Chi Minh City deputy chairman Nguyen Cong Vinh.

-- China’s Consul General in Ho Chi Minh City, Tang Li, said on Tuesday that the city is well positioned to realize its goal of becoming an international megacity, as he was attending a reception marking the 76th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and China and the upcoming Lunar New Year.

-- Cuba’s consulate in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday unveiled a bust of national hero José Martí at its premises, the first such monument in the city, to honor the leader of Cuba’s revolutionary movement.

-- Police in Dong Thanh Commune, Ho Chi Minh City have uncovered a woman suspected of trading in illegal fireworks and seized 67.2 kg of explosive fireworks, a banned commodity in Vietnam.

Economy

-- SB Space Holding Investment JSC recently became a major shareholder of Colusa–Miliket Foodstuff JSC, owner of Vietnam’s long-established Miliket instant noodle brand, after acquiring 960,000 shares, or 20 percent of its charter capital, from state-owned tobacco firm Vinataba in an auction for about VND206 billion ($7.88 million), roughly three times the stock’s market value.