Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — July 25

What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- “Vietnam is concerned about the current tensions in the border area between Thailand and Cambodia," Pham Thu Hang, spokesperson for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said on Thursday. 

Society

-- During a meeting with Madame Ngo Phuong Ly, spouse of Vietnam's Party General Secretary To Lam, on Thursday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Nikolayevich Chernyshenko expressed his hope that the Pushkin Institute branch in Hanoi would become a center for Russian language studies in Southeast Asia.

-- Police in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam announced on Thursday evening that they had rescued two exhausted tourists, including a Dutch national, during a hiking trip on Co Ong Mountain in Dam Mon Hamlet, Dai Lanh Commune.

-- A serious traffic accident occurred in Song Tri Ward, Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam at around 1:45 am on Friday, leaving nine people dead and 15 others injured, according to initial reports.

Ho Chi Minh City

-- Among the sources of air pollution, road traffic has been identified as the primary contributor to air pollution in Ho Chi Minh City, according to a key point highlighted in the municipal government’s comprehensive report on the implementation of environmental protection policies and laws submitted to the National Assembly’s supervisory delegation of the 15th tenure on Wednesday.

-- Ho Chi Minh City aims to establish an electric vehicle battery recycling center with a capacity of around 3,000 tonnes per year, capable of recovering up to 95 percent of valuable metals from used batteries. This is one of the proposed solutions in a plan to transition from gasoline-powered motorbikes to electric ones, as shared by Le Thanh Hai, director of the Economic Application Consulting Center under the Ho Chi Minh City Institute for Development Studies, at a press briefing on the city’s socio-economic situation on Thursday.

Economy

-- Vietbeauty & Cosmobeauté Vietnam—Vietnam’s premier international trade exhibition for the beauty industry—officially opened on Thursday alongside Beautycare Plus 2025 at the Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center, drawing thousands of brands from 24 countries and territories.

World News

-- "Thailand scrambled an F-16 fighter jet to bomb targets in Cambodia on Thursday after artillery volleys from both sides killed at least 11 civilians, as border tension boiled over into rare armed conflict between the Southeast Asian countries," Reuters reported.