Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — July 3

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Policy

— South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol affirmed his country’s commitment to helping Vietnam train workforce for the semiconductor and high-tech industries, as well as develop the cultural industry, during talks with Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh in Seoul on Tuesday.

— Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and his South Korean counterpart Han Duck Soo on Tuesday witnessed the signing of nine cooperation agreements between ministries and agencies of the two countries in various fields such as economy, trade, investment, education and startup ecosystems, as part of the senior Vietnamese official’s trip to South Korea from Sunday to Wednesday.

Business

— Vietnamese budget airline Vietjet has launched a new direct air service linking Ho Chi Minh City to Xi’an, the provincial capital of Shaanxi in China, with four return flights per week, the carrier said. Vietnam News Agency reported.

Company

— A high-tech livestock farm raising more than 20,000 pigs in Vietnam’s north-central province of Thanh Hoa has been forced to suspend operations from July 30 after being found guilty of polluting the environment, Le Duc Giang, vice chairman of the provincial administration, said Tuesday afternoon.

— Authorities in Vietnam’s northern mountainous provinces have been urged to prepare for evacuation operations as extreme rains, accompanied by potential floods, landslides and flash floods, are expected to hit the region from Tuesday night to Thursday morning, according to an official statement signed by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Luu Quang on Tuesday.

— The administration of Vietnam’s northern Bac Kan province declared a local state of emergency on Tuesday due to severe landslides that hit a police agency headquarters in Cho Don district, the Defense Ministry said. Vietnam News Agency reported.

— Police in Vietnam’s southern Tien Giang province confirmed Tuesday that they seized two cars carrying more than 16,000 packs of suspected contraband cigarettes in two separate cases earlier in the day.

World News

— At least 116 people, including many women and children, were killed Tuesday in a stampede at a Hindu religious gathering in northern India, authorities said, in one of the worst such tragedies in the country in years. Reuters reported.

— Hurricane Beryl headed toward Jamaica Tuesday as a powerful Category 4 storm after battering small islands in the eastern Caribbean, and scientists cited human-caused climate change as the likely culprit for the storm’s rapid strengthening, according to Reuters.

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