Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - October 18

Check out the latest news from Vietnam today:

Society

-- The Vietnam Phở Festival 2025 will be held at Our Tampines Hub, Singapore’s largest integrated community and lifestyle complex, on October 18-19.

-- The National Civil Defense Steering Committee has urged coastal provinces from Quang Ninh to Lam Dong to immediately notify all fishing vessels about a tropical depression east of the central Philippines that may strengthen into a storm and enter the East Vietnam Sea late on Sunday.

Economy

-- The Vietnamese Green Economy Institute announced on Friday that it and Cuba’s Labiofam Group recently launched a Vietnam-Cuba agricultural biotechnology and natural health network in Havana, marking a new chapter in scientific, medical, and agricultural cooperation between the two nations.

-- Suzuki Vietnam has reached a major milestone with one million vehicles produced in the country. It also announced plans to expand into the electric vehicle segment during a ceremony marking the 30th anniversary of Vietnam Suzuki Corporation on Friday evening.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Finance and the Nasdaq Stock Exchange signed a memorandum of understanding on Friday at Nasdaq’s headquarters in New York to cooperate in developing the Vietnam International Financial Center in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Forest Protection Department on Friday confirmed it had received a Burmese python from Ngo Van Danh, a resident of Binh Loi Commune who discovered the animal while checking his fish trap.

-- Remittances sent through credit institutions and economic organizations in Ho Chi Minh City reached US$7.969 billion in the first nine months of 2025, according to the State Bank of Vietnam’s Regional Branch No. 2.

-- The Ministry of Construction has approved the continued pilot program allowing several ports in the Cai Mep-Thi Vai area in Ho Chi Minh City to receive international cruise ships until June 30, 2026.

Education

-- Authorities in Thanh Hoa Province, north-central Vietnam are investigating a fatal altercation between two high school students that occurred outside the campus of Dang Thai Mai High School on Friday morning.

-- Addressing a press briefing on Friday, Nguyen Van Phong, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, emphasized that the city will not relocate all universities out of the downtown area, addressing recent public concern about urban planning policies.