Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — March 24

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam received Men Sam An, vice-president of the Cambodian People’s Party and president of the National Council of the Solidarity Front for the Development of Cambodia Motherland, in Hanoi on Monday.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh held talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Mishustin in Moscow on Monday (local time), as part of the Vietnamese government leader’s official visit to Russia.

-- Vietnam’s Party and state leaders on Monday sent congratulatory messages to newly elected key leaders of Laos following the first session of the 10th National Assembly of Laos.

Society

-- Police in Tuyen Quang Province, northern Vietnam in mid-March successfully busted a cross-border ring transporting and trading illegal goods, seizing nearly 710 kilograms of explosive fireworks.

-- The AI-integrated traffic surveillance camera system in Hanoi detected over 19,300 traffic violations in the three months since its full-scale operation in December last year.

-- Tuberculosis remains a major public health challenge in Vietnam, which ranks 12th among the 30 countries with the highest burden of the disease worldwide. Ho Chi Minh City alone accounts for about a quarter of all reported cases nationwide.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has proposed integrating hotlines that support children and women who are victims of violence and abuse into Information Portal 1022, in order to form a focal point for receiving reports.

Economy

-- PM Chinh on Monday held a working session with Russia’s Novatek Group in Moscow, urging the group to accelerate cooperation on liquefied natural gas projects and energy development.

-- Vietnam is committed to accompanying, supporting, and creating the most favorable conditions for U.S. investors to do business at the Vietnam International Financial Center, heard a Vietnam-U.S. business seminar in New York on Monday, attended by Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh, as part of his working visit to the United States.