Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 18

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Flash floods triggered by heavy rain in Muong Than Commune, Lai Chau Province, have left one person dead, six others missing and two injured, while cutting off several villages and severely disrupting transportation, local authorities said on Friday evening.

-- A tragic accident occurred on Friday afternoon in Minh Duc Commune, Dong Nai City, when a tanker truck lost control and slammed into a roadside house, leaving one woman dead and another person injured.

Economy

-- Etrillion Ceramics Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of China’s Hunan Hualian Ceramics JSC, on Friday inaugurated phase one of its US$200-million Vietnam-ASEAN Ceramics Valley project in Thanh Hoa Province.

-- Da Nang aims to become a center for artificial intelligence developing and testing, rather than simply adopting them, by leveraging its technology workforce, digital infrastructure, and innovation ecosystem, a city official told a tech conference on Friday.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Search teams recovered three additional sets of martyrs’ remains at Le Thi Rieng Park in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, bringing the total number of individual remains recovered to 96 and two collective graves, along with numerous personal artifacts.

-- The city aims to attract an additional $3.5 billion in foreign direct investment in the second half of 2026 to achieve its annual target of $11 billion, while shifting its strategy from competing through incentives to competing through a better investment environment.

-- The city’s Management Authority for Urban Railways on Friday signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Public Security’s Global Technology - Telecommunications Corporation to begin research, technology transfer, and integration for the city’s metro network.

Travel

-- Vietnam's aircraft fleet has expanded by 18 aircraft compared with 2025, but 17 Airbus A321neo jets remain grounded due to engine shortages, even as international travel demand continues to grow rapidly, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

World News

-- Twenty schoolchildren died when the bus carrying them crashed on the way back from a trip to some waterfalls in eastern Uganda ‌late on Thursday, Reuters reported.