Road accident leaves HCMC’s permanent vice chairman dead

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Japanese Consul General recalls The Saigon Times’ value since the 1990s

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In the news June 25, 2026

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HCMC – The permanent vice chairman of HCMC, Le Hoa Binh, died in a car accident that happened early this morning on an expressway linking HCMC and the Mekong Delta, according to Tuoi Tre newspaper.
The newspaper quoted the director of the Long An Province Department of Health as confirming this afternoon that Binh passed away at the Long An General Hospital while he was receiving emergency medical attention. Binh was traveling together with his driver and another person from HCMC to a Mekong Delta province when their 7-seater Toyota Land Cruiser car got punctured and overturned on the HCMC-Trung Luong Expressway at around 7:45. The accident happened when they reached Thanh Duc Commune, Ben Luc District, Long An Province. The driver, whom the media center identified as Nguyen Quang Vinh, 33, and the other passenger, named Duong Tan Truoc, 41, were also injured.

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Japanese Consul General recalls The Saigon Times’ value since the 1990s

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In the news June 25, 2026

“I first began reading The Saigon Times during my earlier posting at the Consulate-General of Japan in Ho Chi Minh City, from 1994 to 1998. Those were exciting times, with Vietnam opening up under the Doi Moi reforms and many Japanese companies were establishing their presence in southern Vietnam. As an officer responsible for economic affairs at the Consulate-General in those days, I found the up-to-date information The Saigon Times provided on Vietnam’s economy truly invaluable — and I am sure the Japanese business community here shared that sentiment.