Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - May 29

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam, his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly, and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation arrived in Singapore early on Friday, starting a state visit to the city-state through Sunday at the invitation of Singaporean President Tharman Shanmugaratnam and his spouse.

Society

-- Hot weather across Vietnam is expected to ease today as rainfall and thunderstorms become more widespread, with some areas forecast to receive heavy downpours, according to the national weather agency.

-- Authorities in Hanoi will begin fencing off parts of the La Thanh-Nguyen Chi Thanh intersection on Sunday to facilitate construction of the S3 station on the capital’s metro line No. 5 project connecting Van Cao and Hoa Lac.

-- A sudden downpour on Thursday evening flooded several roads in Dong Nai City, leaving parts of National Highway 51 submerged and disrupting traffic during one of the area’s first major rains of the season.

-- A math teacher in Dong Thap Province has been fined VND7 million (US$266) and ordered to pay nearly VND2.8 million ($106) in medical costs after allegedly beating a seventh-grade student with a stick at a private tutoring class.

-- A 16-year-old student died after slipping and falling into a deep gorge while visiting a waterfall with her friends in Lam Dong Province on Thursday, local authorities said.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Ho Chi Minh City will stage a 15-minute fireworks show on July 2 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Saigon-Gia Dinh being officially renamed after President Ho Chi Minh, city officials announced on Thursday.

Economy

-- Vietnamese electric carmaker VinFast has increased its charter capital by VND10 trillion ($380 million), bringing the total to VND90.793 trillion ($3.4 billion) and making it the largest-capitalized company within the Vingroup ecosystem.