Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - November 18

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Speaker of South Korea’s law-making National Assembly Woo Won Shik and his spouse will pay an official visit to Vietnam from Thursday to Saturday at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Thanh Man, the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Monday.

-- Vietnam and Kuwait agreed to elevate their bilateral relations to a strategic partnership during talks between Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Sabah in Kuwait on Monday, setting new goals in trade, investment, security, and emerging sectors.

Economy

-- The operators of Vietnam’s Long An International Port and Japan’s Kobe Port signed a memorandum of cooperation during an investment promotion event held on Monday by Vietnam’s Tay Ninh authorities in Japan’s Kansai region, opening up opportunities for logistics collaboration and cargo connectivity between the two countries.

-- AEON Vietnam Co., Ltd., under Japanese retail giant AEON, on Monday received an investment certificate for its over-VND6,000-billion (about US$261 million) retail complex in Tran Bien Ward, Dong Nai Province, marking one of the largest shopping mall projects in the southern province.

Society

-- Vietnam will require the use of E10 gasoline across the country starting June 1, 2026, under a newly issued regulation that pushes back the nationwide transition by six months compared with the earlier proposed timeline.

-- Railway operations in Khanh Hoa Province resumed early on Tuesday morning after heavy flooding submerged the North-South line section in Dien Khanh Commune, while firefighters on Monday night rescued three Russian tourists trapped in rising waters in Tay Nha Trang Ward.

-- A strong cold front has pushed deep into Vietnam, possibly sending temperatures in the north plunging to seven degrees Celsius while continuous downpours are forecast to batter the central region on Tuesday, according to the national weather agency.

-- Heavy rain continued to trigger multiple landslides along the Ho Chi Minh highway in Da Nang City, cutting off traffic between Thanh My and Kham Duc as crews struggled to clear large volumes of mud and debris, authorities confirmed on Monday night.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Ho Chi Minh City said it welcomes cooperation with Chinese enterprises led by members of the Pei clan, who proposed joint development of a Vietnam-China industrial park and other investment projects during a working session with the city’s leaders on Monday.

World News

-- Amazon will raise $15 billion from its first U.S. dollar bond offering in three years, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday, as big tech firms ramp up investments in AI infrastructure, Reuters reported.