Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 8

Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, his spouse, and a high-ranking delegation landed in Nice on Saturday afternoon (local time), beginning his working trip to France, where the leader will attend the third UN Ocean Conference and hold bilateral activities.

Society

-- Vice-chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Bui Xuan Cuong has assigned the Department of Finance to cooperate with the Department of Construction and other relevant units to review the proposal for investing in the city’s metro line No. 4 stretching from outlying Hoc Mon District to the Hiep Phuoc urban area in Nha Be District, submitted by Sovico Group, a founding shareholder of air carrier Vietjet Air.

-- Police in Hue City, central Vietnam announced on Saturday afternoon that they are investigating a serious murder case in which a man used a knife to attack his ex-wife and her mother, resulting in their deaths and leaving his ex-wife’s younger brother in critical condition.

-- A scaffold collapsed at a construction site within the Son Tien tourist area in Dong Nai Province, southern Vietnam on Thursday, killing two workers, the provincial Department of Construction reported on Saturday morning.

-- Police in Dak Lak Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands said on Saturday that they had prosecuted a couple from south-central Khanh Hoa Province for producing over 20 metric tons of substandard coffee.

-- The Meteorological and Hydrological Stations in Can Tho City and Bac Lieu Province in the Mekong Delta have forecast that it will rain heavily in these localities in the coming days, which may cause flooding in some low-lying areas.

Lifestyle

-- As the weather in Da Nang City, central Vietnam has been hot and stifling, thousands of locals and tourists have flocked to beaches such as My Khe, Pham Van Dong, and Man Thai to cool off over the past few days.

-- The second night of the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2025 lit up the namesake Vietnamese city on Saturday with performances from first-time participant Z121 Vina Pyrotech Vietnam from the Ministry of National Defense and a team from Poland.

Travel

-- Border markers, border gates, and historical border guard stations have been surveyed for the design of a tourism route along the southwestern border from Ho Chi Minh City to Long An, Dong Thap, An Giang, and Kien Giang Provinces.

World News

-- Thailand has reinforced its military presence along a disputed border with Cambodia, following an increase in troops on the other side, Reuters reported, citing Thailand's defence minister on Saturday.