Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 16

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- General Phan Van Giang, Minister of National Defense, on Monday afternoon held talks with Nikolai Patrushev, assistant to President Vladimir Putin and chairman of Russia’s Maritime Council.

Society

-- The National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported on Monday that a low-pressure area was active over the eastern waters of the East Vietnam Sea and may intensify into a tropical depression in the next 24 hours.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City said on Monday that they were keeping a car driver in custody as the man assaulted a 72-year-old man following a traffic collision.

-- Police in Cao Bang Province, northern Vietnam announced on Monday that they had dismantled a transnational high-tech fraud ring led by foreign nationals, which had swindled over VND160 billion (US$6 million) from nearly 400 citizens across the country.

-- The chairman of the Da Nang People's Committee has signed a decision to impose a fine of VND564 million ($21,373) on Chic-Land Joint Stock Company for nine environmental violations.

-- Foul-smelling wastewater is flowing heavily into Nhon Ly Beach in Quy Nhon Dong Ward, Gia Lai Province despite the completion of a nearly VND5.9 billion ($223,647) treatment plant.

-- National Highway 14D in Da Nang City, central Vietnam, which connects the Nam Giang International Border Gate on the Vietnam–Laos border with Ho Chi Minh Road, National Highway 1, and seaports in the central region, has severely deteriorated, with the road surface crumbling and deep potholes appearing.

World News

-- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would call a national emergency and federalize Washington, D.C. after Mayor Muriel Bowser said its police would not cooperate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to Reuters.

-- The U.S. and China reached a framework deal on short-video app TikTok as part of broader talks on tariffs and economic policy that concluded in Madrid on Monday, Reuters reported, citing U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.