Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 15

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- An increasing number of businesses on many tourist streets in Da Nang City, central Vietnam are using signs only in Korean, Chinese or English, leaving some Vietnamese visitors unable to identify shops, despite regulations requiring Vietnamese to be the primary language on commercial signage.

-- Police in northern Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam said on Tuesday they had charged five executives and employees from three technology companies with copyright infringement for allegedly installing pirated Microsoft software on computers sold nationwide.

-- Google said in its ‘Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026’ on Tuesday that Vietnam leads Southeast Asia in using Gemini AI assistant for education and has the highest share of local-language use on the platform. 

-- Hanoi’s Saint Paul Hospital said on Tuesday it had successfully retrieved seven organs from a 49-year-old brain-dead traffic accident victim after his family agreed to donate them, with the organs allocated to hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for transplantation.

-- Vietnamese Internet searches in the second quarter surged for new administrative procedures, government recruitment, consumer safety incidents, and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, led by a 5,042-percent jump in searches for SIM card authentication, according to Coc Coc’s latest search trends report.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Ho Chi Minh City’s bus network carried a record 294,266 passengers on Monday, up 68 percent from a year earlier after 13 days of free rides, bringing the total ridership on 134 routes to 3.52 million passengers since the policy took effect on July 1, according to the city’s Public Transport Management Center.

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday police had charged the owners of three jewelry businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, along with a PNJ Lab gem certification employee, as part of an expanded investigation into an alleged transnational diamond smuggling network operating through the country.

Economy

-- More than 500 officials, experts, and business representatives from Vietnam and China gathered in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday for the second Asian Durian Conference to strengthen cross-border trade and supply chains as Vietnam expands durian exports and rolls out a nationwide traceability system.

Travel

-- Hotels in Khanh Hoa are nearing full occupancy and flights to the south-central coastal province have surged ahead of its three-day sea festival, which will begin on Friday and is expected to attract 600,000-800,000 domestic and international visitors.