Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — October 14

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang on Monday held talks with Haluk Gorgun, President of the Turkish Defense Industry Agency, during the latter’s visit and working trip to Vietnam from Monday to Tuesday.

Society

-- Traffic police officers in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam on Monday issued a fine of VND20 million (US$762) and deducted four points from the driver’s license of a truck driver who was transporting multiple large round concrete pipes without securing them. The incident occurred on a National Highway 1 section in Mo Duc Commune, Quang Ngai.

-- The administration in Xuan Huong - Da Lat Ward, Lam Dong Province announced on Monday that it was investigating an incident in which a 10-year-old boy was taken into a private room by a supermarket security guard on suspicion of stealing chocolate.

-- Authorities and residents in Dien Lam Commune, Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam captured a crocodile weighing 80 kilograms and measuring 2.65 meters in length in the Cho River area at around 3:00 pm on Monday, a local official reported the same day.

-- Emergency relief supplies from the government and people of Japan for Vietnamese citizens affected by storms and floods arrived at Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Monday, ready to be transported to Bac Ninh Province.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has directed relevant units to prepare plans and take proactive measures as the Da Phuoc landfill will only accept waste from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am the following day, starting December 1.

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has approved the Ministry of Home Affairs’ proposal for a nine-day break for the 2026 Lunar New Year holiday, spanning from February 14 to 22, or the 27th day of the last lunar month of the Year of the Snake through the sixth day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Horse.

Economy

-- The first Vietnam International Exhibition on Aquatic Science and Technology will take place from April 28 to 30, 2026 in Ho Chi Minh City, with 40 percent of the exhibitors coming from the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Japan, South Korea, and China.

World News

-- Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize on Monday for their work on how innovation and the forces of "creative destruction" can drive economic growth and lift living standards across the globe, according to Reuters.

-- U.S. President Donald Trump remains on track to meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping in South Korea in late October as the two sides try to de-escalate tensions over trade disputes, Reuters reported, citing U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.