Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - July 12

Check out the latest news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Northern Vietnamese provinces are expected to see heavy rain on Saturday morning, while the southern region may experience scattered downpours and thunderstorms by late afternoon, according to the national weather center.

-- Since the beginning of July, Ho Chi Minh City police have issued digital identification accounts to more than 2,200 foreigners, averaging over 400 applications per day, the municipal police department’s immigration division confirmed on Friday.

-- A patrol team from the management authority of Hon Cau Marine Protected Area in Lam Dong Province discovered a nest containing 112 green sea turtle eggs on Friday, marking a hopeful sign for efforts to protect this endangered species.

-- Ho Chi Minh City has recorded 14,370 dengue fever cases in the first 27 weeks of 2025, a 153-percent increase compared to the same period in 2024, with six deaths reported so far, the city’s Center for Disease Control announced on Friday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Construction is moving forward with plans to build steel overpasses at two major traffic hotspots, including the Nguyen Tri Phuong-Ngo Gia Tu six-way intersection and the Bon Xa four-way junction, to reduce chronic congestion.

Travel

-- Vietnam and China will compete in the grand finale of the Da Nang International Fireworks Festival 2025 at 8:00 pm on Saturday, lighting up the Han River and closing out six nights of dazzling competition.

Education

-- The University of Medicine and Pharmacy under Vietnam National University, Hanoi has officially launched its first four international master’s programs, which will welcome over 100 Indian doctors as its inaugural cohort.

World News

-- The State Department began firing more than 1,350 U.S.-based employees on Friday as the administration of President Donald Trump presses ahead with an unprecedented overhaul of its diplomatic corps, a move critics say will undermine U.S. ability to defend and promote U.S. interests abroad, Reuters reported.

-- A preliminary report depicted confusion in the cockpit shortly before an Air India jetliner crashed, killing 260 people last month, after the plane's engine fuel cutoff switches almost simultaneously flipped, starving the engines of fuel, according to Reuters.