Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 28

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Ho Chi Minh City police on Sunday initiated legal proceedings against 24-year-old Nguyen Thai Tuan for violating road traffic regulations and ordered his detention for investigation after he hit a motorcycle while driving a car on Truong Cong Dinh Street in Vung Tau Ward on September 20, injuring two before fleeing the scene.

-- Khanh Hoa Province in south-central Vietnam has asked the Ministry of Construction to consider adjusting a route of the North-South high-speed railway project to protect the more than 1,000-year-old Hoa Lai Cham Towers.

-- Can Tho City in southern Vietnam has ordered contractors to speed up construction and disbursement to complete the 500-bed Can Tho Oncology Hospital project in 2026, as construction is currently far behind schedule with only three months left and a large amount of work remaining.

-- An Giang Border Guard forces found a suspicious sack containing about 20kg of white crystalline substance suspected to be drugs while patrolling the waters off Phu Quoc Special Zone on Sunday.

Economy

-- Rising interest rates are becoming a nightmare for people who have borrowed from banks to invest in real estate, with more and more owners offering deep discounts to sell their properties in order to settle their outstanding loans, but struggling to find buyers.

Sports

-- Vietnam’s sports delegation went without a medal on Sunday, marking the second consecutive medal-less day at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan and leaving its tally unchanged at 18 medals, including one gold, one silver, and 16 bronzes.

-- MyTV has officially secured the broadcasting rights to the FIFA ASEAN Cup 2026, which is taking place in Indonesia and Hong Kong, China from September 24 to October 5, allowing viewers to watch all matches live, including Vietnam’s campaign in the tournament.

-- Vietnam’s chess team completed all 11 rounds on Sunday evening, with its men’s team winning the Group B gold medal at the 2026 Chess Olympiad in Uzbekistan.

World news

-- The CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been called to appear at an Australian Senate inquiry on AI, the head of the probe said on Sunday, days after the revelation that a rogue OpenAI ‌bot had hacked the country's health-system database, Reuters reported.