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.
