Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - November 16

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Economy

-- Visitors flocked to natural and organic product booths at the 2025 Green Vietnam Festival held at the Youth Culture House in downtown Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday, where they sampled herbal cosmetics, tasted organic coconut nectar, and explored recycled products made from local materials.

Society

-- Northern Vietnam remains cold on Sunday while widespread heavy rain is in the forecast for the central provinces from Ha Tinh to Khanh Hoa, and thunderstorms strengthen across the south, according to the national weather agency.

-- A stray dog believed to be rabid has repeatedly bitten residents at a social housing complex in Cam Ranh Ward, Khanh Hoa Province, leaving eight people injured. All have since received rabies vaccination and are under medical monitoring, local authorities confirmed on Saturday.

-- Authorities in Dak Lak Province have instructed operators of major hydropower reservoirs to lower water levels before 11:00 am on Sunday, as the province braces for severe rainfall, flooding, and possible flash floods in downstream areas.

-- After storm Kalmaegi, the 13th to hit the East Vietnam Sea this year, damaged thousands of homes in eastern Dak Lak, residents are struggling to buy roofing sheets and tiles as prices surge and supplies run low.

-- The United States has announced an extra US$500,000 in emergency aid to help Vietnamese families and individuals affected by recent storms Fengshen and Kalmaegi, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said on its official Facebook page on Saturday.

-- A two-year-old child in Hanoi was recently rushed to intensive care after accidentally drinking lamp oil left on the floor at home. After four days of intensive treatment, the child survived the critical stage and has been removed from assisted breathing, according to the Vietnam National Children’s Hospital.

-- More than 215,500 juvenile fish were released into the Hau River on Saturday as authorities from An Giang, Can Tho, and Dong Thap Provinces launched a joint program to help replenish natural aquatic resources in the Mekong Delta.

World News

-- At least four people were killed when two boats carrying 95 irregular migrants capsized off the Libyan coastal city of Al Khums on Thursday, Reuters cited the Libyan Red Crescent as saying on Saturday.

-- Violent weather brought on by storm Claudia killed three people and injured dozens in Portugal, authorities there said on Saturday, while in Britain rescue workers were organizing evacuations due to heavy flooding in Wales and England, Reuters reported.