Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — September 23

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- A 20-meter-tall khaya senegalensis tree was uprooted and fell onto the fence in the yard of Thai Hoa A Elementary School in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday morning, a local official said the same day.

-- A video circulating online shows a man physically assaulting a pregnant woman at a convenience store next to Phu Yen General Hospital in Dak Lak Province after complaining about the high price of instant noodles in the early hours of Sunday.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City arrested a man for allegedly killing his biological mother and injuring his sister with a knife on Monday.

-- The Ministry of Construction has tasked the Department for Roads of Vietnam with reviewing and addressing Ho Chi Minh City’s proposal regarding the management of four-wheeled electric tourist vehicles in a bid to resolve obstacles to their operation.

-- The Hanoi People's Committee plans to invest nearly VND4.7 trillion (US$176.7 million) in renovating and redeveloping the park along both sides of the To Lich River.

-- Police in Dak Lak Province on Monday initiated legal proceedings against and detained two department heads of the Tay Nguyen Regional General Hospital for their alleged involvement in performing 480 kidney stone procedures and submitting insurance claims, despite the hospital’s lithotripsy machine having been out of service for nearly two years.

-- Super typhoon Ragasa is the strongest storm in the world so far in 2025 and is expected to become the most powerful typhoon ever recorded in the East Vietnam Sea, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Environment Nguyen Hoang Hiep said during a meeting to respond to the super typhoon on Monday.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has approved shortening the processing time for issuing visa exemption certificates at Vietnamese representative offices abroad from two to one working day.

-- Patrol vessel HMS Richmond of the British Royal Navy docked at Nha Rong Harbor in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday, marking its second visit to Vietnam following its visit in 2021.

Economy

-- Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Tran Luu Quang requested Thai-invested SCG Vietnam to consider expanding investment in green development alongside the petrochemical industry during a meeting with CEO Sakchai Patiparnpreechavud and several members of SCG Vietnam’s board of directors on Monday.

Travel

-- The 2025 Vietnam Tourism Awards feature 11 categories, aiming to encourage businesses to innovate, apply advanced technologies, and improve the quality of their products and services to better meet the diverse needs of both domestic and international tourists, according to the Vietnam National Authority of Tourism.