Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — June 13

What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- As part of his official visit to Sweden, Vietnam's Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday held meetings with Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Speaker of the Parliament Andreas Norlén, and leaders of various political parties.

Society

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City have uncovered two businesses and one individual storing tens of tonnes of pig udders, chicken cartilage, beef shank, and other meat products without invoices or documents proving their origin.

-- Pham Thi Huong, chairwoman of the Ly Son District People's Committee in Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam, said on Thursday that due to rough seas caused by storm No. 1, or Wutip, passenger ferries have been suspended, leaving more than 100 tourists stranded on Ly Son Island, unable to return to the mainland.

-- According to the National Civil Defense Steering Committee, the military has mobilized 264,000 officers and soldiers, along with seven aircraft, 428 specialized vehicles, and more than 1,400 boats and canoes, in preparation for storm No. 1.

-- Storm No. 1 brought heavy rainfall that flooded more than 700 houses in Quang Nam Province, central Vietnam and submerged thousands of hectares of crops, including rice and watermelons.

-- The Da Nang Department of Science and Technology on Thurday conducted a city-level radiation and nuclear incident response drill for 2025 at the administrative center park in Lien Chieu District.

Technology

-- Data from the i-Speed Internet speed testing platform revealed that Da Nang’s mobile network speed saw a sharp decline in May, dropping to just 50 percent of the speed recorded in April.

Economy 

-- On June 11 in Paris, under the witness of Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Vietnam Airlines and ING Bank signed a memorandum of understanding on financial cooperation, with a funding scale of up to US$1.5 billion.

World News

-- "World leaders may face smoke warnings when they gather next week in Alberta as wildfires burned out of control across much of Canada and caused the country's second-worst fire season in decades," Reuters reported.