Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 14

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Twenty Mongolian horses that spent six years serving with Vietnam's mobile mounted police have returned to their homeland, Mongolia, where they received a ceremonial welcome, marking the end of a remarkable journey that has become a symbol of friendship between Vietnam and Mongolia.

-- The southwest monsoon is forecast to bring widespread showers and thunderstorms to the Central Highlands and southern Vietnam through July 14 or 15, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- Vietnamese authorities, in coordination with the Indian Embassy and Consulate General, completed procedures at 6:00 pm on Monday to repatriate the bodies of the 15 victims who died in the speedboat capsizing in Phu Quoc Special Zone, An Giang Province, on a flight to India, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Foreign Affairs.

-- Thunderstorms accompanied by tornadoes swept through several communes in Ca Mau Province, southern Vietnam on Monday, damaging or unroofing more than 70 houses and injuring four people.

-- Two children from a mountainous area of Da Nang City were hospitalized with respiratory failure and in a coma after eating a large quantity of unripe wild passion fruit, a leader of Quang Nam Obstetrics and Pediatrics Hospital said on Monday.

-- The People's Committee in Hue City, central Vietnam announced on Monday that it had issued new regulations on the organization of funerals, stipulating that funeral services must be completed within 72 hours from the time of death until the funeral procession.

Recovery of martyrs’ remains

-- As many as 11,093 martyrs' graves had been exhumed for DNA sampling in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam, during the first five weeks of a 500-day campaign to identify martyrs’ remains launched on June 4, the provincial Department of Home Affairs announced on Monday.

-- Authorities recovered 20 more sets of martyrs' remains at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday, bringing the total number of remains found at the site to 69 individual sets and one communal burial, according to the Ho Chi Minh City High Command's martyrs' remains recovery team.

Economy

-- Ho Chi Minh City aims to achieve average annual export growth of 10-11 percent and import growth of 9-10 percent in 2026-30 under a newly issued action plan implementing the city's goods import-export strategy.