Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - June 15

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Authorities in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City are working to fix some 70 meters of the Saigon River embankment hit by a landslide, a local official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Saturday.

-- The chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has proposed the municipal government’s Party Committee consider and approve a plan to treat waste for three districts of Long An Province—Duc Hoa, Can Duoc, and Can Giuoc—until the end of 2026, following the request of the administration in Long An Province.

-- Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly on Saturday passed the Law on Digital Technology Industry, making Vietnam the first country in the world to enact a dedicated law specifically for the digital technology industry.

-- Authorities in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam are investigating an incident that occurred on Saturday, in which a man was seen clinging to the hood of a moving car.

-- The An Phu Intersection project in Ho Chi Minh City has only six months left to meet its scheduled completion by the end of 2025, but many components are still progressing slowly, with some areas nearly at a standstill.

-- At the request of the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang, the authorities in Khanh Hoa Province are completing procedures to propose the state president award the Third-Class Labor Medal to Professor Yoshida Lay Myint from Nagasaki University, Japan for his significant research on infectious diseases in Vietnam.

Business

-- The Agency for Domestic Market Surveillance and Development under the Ministry of Industry and Trade reported that two businesses were recently fined for selling counterfeit fashion products bearing famous brand names, with nearly 400 items seized at Saigon Square in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Passengers on 28 subsidized bus routes in Ho Chi Minh City will enjoy free fares on Monday when making cashless payments.

Travel

-- Tourists traveling to Nha Trang, a coastal city in Khanh Hoa Province, south-central Vietnam, have reported being scammed when booking rooms through fake websites impersonating hotels. Scammers created fake Facebook pages of major hotels such as Vinpearl Hotel Nha Trang, Masova, and Best Western Premier Marvella Nha Trang to fraudulently take money from visitors.

Lifestyle

-- Vietnam’s banh mi ranked sixth in the list of the 25 best sandwiches in the world published by CNN.

Sports

-- Vietnamese athlete Nguyen Thi Quynh Nhu won a silver medal in the vault event at the 2025 Artistic Gymnastics Asian Championship, marking the first time in 13 years that Vietnam's women's gymnastics has earned a medal at the Asian level.