Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 21

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Economy

-- Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh will lead the newly formed National Steering Committee tasked with implementing the Politburo’s Resolution 68 on promoting Vietnam’s private sector development.

Society

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health confirmed on Friday that 100 percent of its wards and communes now meet criteria to declare the measles outbreak over, following a significant decline in cases and widespread vaccination efforts.

-- Northern Vietnam is expected to experience scattered showers and thunderstorms today, while scattered thunderstorms are expected in the afternoon and evening in the Central Highlands and southern provinces, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- Several major hospitals in southern Vietnam have suspended positron emission tomography and computed tomography scans after the region’s only cyclotron placed at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City ceased operation, directly affecting cancer and heart patients, said a Cho Ray Hospital leader on Friday.

-- The Ministry of Public Security has dismantled a large-scale criminal network that used fake businesses and call center tactics to scam hundreds of thousands of elderly people nationwide out of hundreds of billions of dong.

-- A dump truck lost control while descending a mountain road in Nha Trang City of Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam, and slammed into a roadside café late on Friday afternoon, killing a 62-year-old man inside.

-- Authorities in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam announced on Friday that they had detected 102 violations during a 30-day anti-smuggling campaign, resulting in 57 cases being prosecuted and over VND642 million (US$24,400) collected for the state budget.

-- An intense downpour on Friday afternoon submerged major streets in Can Tho City, southern Vietnam with rainfall exceeding 100mm, which marked the highest recorded since the start of the rainy season, causing widespread flooding and traffic disruption.

-- Massive piles of waste have washed ashore along Nhat Le and Bao Ninh beaches, which are the most popular tourist spots in Quang Binh Province, central Vietnam, following an early June storm, threatening the local environment and tourism peak season, said a local official on Friday.

World News

-- Iran said on Friday it would not discuss the future of its nuclear programme while under attack by Israel, as Europe tried to coax Tehran back into negotiations and the United States considers whether to get involved in the conflict, Reuters reported.

-- Brazilian soy farmers are pushing further into the Amazon rainforest to plant more of their crops, putting pressure on a landmark deal signed two decades ago aimed at slowing deforestation, according to Reuters.