Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - November 19

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation arrived at Houari Boumediene International Airport in Algiers late on Tuesday afternoon (local time), starting a three-day official visit to Algeria at the invitation of Algerian Prime Minister Sifi Ghrieb.

Economy

-- Shareholders of Vingroup, Vietnam’s largest private conglomerate, have endorsed a major plan to issue 3.853 billion new shares in the fourth quarter this year, paving the way for the group’s largest-ever charter capital increase to more than VND77.3 trillion (US$3 billion).

Society

-- Cold air continues to cover northern Vietnam on Wednesday, bringing severe cold conditions while many central provinces remain soaked in heavy rain. Southern Vietnam will have late-afternoon showers, with some locations experiencing intense rainfall, according to the national weather agency.

-- A severe flooding wave in Khanh Hoa Province has killed 10 people, left two others missing, and caused an estimated VND286 billion ($10.8 million) in losses, provincial officials said during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Ho Quoc Dung on Tuesday.

-- A sudden systems failure at Cloudflare, a U.S. company providing security and traffic management for millions of websites, triggered widespread Internet outages on Tuesday, disrupting access to major global platforms and numerous Vietnamese news sites and services.

-- Persistent heavy rain has flooded large parts of eastern Dak Lak Province, isolating communities and forcing authorities to evacuate residents as water levels continue to rise due to swollen rivers and upstream dam discharges, a local official confirmed early on Wednesday morning.

-- A new training program launched by the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on Tuesday revealed alarming risks facing Vietnamese children online, with an estimated 94,000 Internet users aged 12-17 falling victim to sexual exploitation and abuse in cyberspace.

Education

-- Schools across 58 eastern communes and wards in Gia Lai Province have been told to decide class suspensions based on local flooding risks, as prolonged heavy rain continues to inundate low-lying areas and trigger landslide warnings, the provincial education authority said on Tuesday.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Traffic in the car lane of Le Loi Boulevard in downtown Ho Chi Minh City is temporarily restricted until the end of December 2 as authorities allocate the road for a major concert and an international martial arts festival, the city’s Traffic Police Division announced.

-- Vegetable prices in Ho Chi Minh City have surged two to three times following prolonged flooding and storms across multiple regions, leaving both vendors and consumers under pressure as supplies shrink sharply.

World News

-- Japan has warned its citizens in China to step up safety precautions and avoid crowded places, amid a deepening dispute between Asia's two largest economies over Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's comments on Taiwan, Reuters reported.

-- Cloudflare has fully restored its services after an outage on Tuesday at the web-infrastructure company prevented thousands from accessing major internet platforms, including X and ChatGPT, according to Reuters.