Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — June 23

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- The U.S.–Vietnam Friendship Festival took place in Da Nang on Sunday evening, drawing around 3,000 attendees with cultural performances and exchange activities, marking the start of a series of events celebrating 30 years of diplomatic ties between the two countries (1995–2025).

Society

-- Vietnam needs to complete around 800km of expressways by the end of this year to meet its goal of having 3,000km in operation by 2025 and connecting expressways from Cao Bang Province to Ca Mau Province, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a national conference on Sunday.

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defense has released the full planning dossier for a project to expand Ba Dinh Square in Hanoi by 7,191 square meters.

-- Vinh Airport in Nghe An Province, north-central Vietnam will be closed for six months from July 1 to December 31, 2025 for runway and taxiway repairs, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam.

-- The Drug Administration of Vietnam has ordered a nationwide recall of Alfachim 4.2 tablets, batch 03010624, produced by Cuu Long Pharmaceutical, after the batch was found to fail quality standards, following a previous recall in Hanoi.

-- Rescuers under the Public Security Department of Khanh Hoa Province in south-central Vietnam said on Monday they had successfully rescued three tourists who went missing while hiking Mount Hoang Ngu Son in Phuoc Dong Commune, Nha Trang City on Sunday.

-- Police in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam have launched an investigation after a human skeleton was found in a household water tank on Sunday.

-- Police in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam on Sunday destroyed more than 1,580 dangerous weapons and support tools collected through a province-wide recovery campaign.

Economy

-- The combined financial statements of 27 Vietnamese banks, excluding state-owned Agribank, the country’s largest lender by assets, showed total customer loans reached over VND12.3 quadrillion (US$470 billion) as of end-March, up 3.8 percent from the end of 2024.

-- The Trump Organization has expressed interest in investing in an international financial center in Da Nang, which aims to begin operations by 2030 as part of the central Vietnamese city’s plan to become a regional financial hub, according to a report by the municipal People’s Committee.