Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — February 26

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- The northern region is forecast to see scattered showers and thunderstorms on Thursday, while many localities in central and southern Vietnam are likely to experience unseasonal rain, according to the national weather center.

-- Traffic police have fined multiple drivers who were using their mobile phones while driving on Ho Chi Minh City - Long Thanh - Dau Giay Expressway.

-- Since its first kidney transplant in December 2016, the Hanoi-based 108 Military Central Hospital has successfully performed more than 1,000 transplants, bringing life-saving treatment to patients.

-- A farmer in Can Tho City, southern Vietnam on Wednesday caught a big crab that weighed 1.1 kilograms and sold for nearly VND500,000 (US$19.2).

-- Train SE3 running from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City collided with a tractor-trailer in the Thuong Tin - Ngoc Hoi area of Hanoi at around 7:50 pm, leaving one dead and another injured.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Over 4,500 voters who are on long-term duty at sea and will not be onshore to cast their ballots on the official election day of March 15 are set to participate in the early election of deputies to the 16th National Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels for the 2026-31 term on Thursday.

-- Many grilled snakehead fish stalls along Tan Ky Tan Quy Street in Ho Chi Minh City have kept their fires burning through the night to meet residents’ demand for buying fish as offerings for the God of Wealth on Thursday, or the 10th day of the first lunar month, known as the God of Wealth Day.

Economy

-- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust has purchased an additional 80,000 PNJ shares in Phu Nhuan Jewelry JSC, raising its ownership in the company to 243,504 shares.

-- Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam has fined a number of livestock farming facilities for environmental violations.

World News

-- OpenAI's admission that it banned the ChatGPT account of mass shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar months before the 18-year-old allegedly killed eight people and herself is drawing scrutiny to her past online activity and raising questions about whether opportunities were missed to prevent one of Canada's worst mass killings, Reuters reported.