Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading news stories that are published today, August 11, in Vietnamese media.
Politics
— Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh has held bilateral meetings with the Foreign Ministers of Myanmar, the US and India on the sidelines of the on-going 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
— The suppression orders concerning the Australian-style polymer note printing case were not widely released by the Supreme Court of Victoria, the Australian Embassy in Vietnam said in a statement released on Sunday.
Society
— A group of 184 Vietnamese and two South Korean workers landed safely at Hanoi-based Noi Bai airport on Sunday from violence-torn Libya.
— Phan Van Son, 28, was sentenced Sunday to life in prison by a Da Nang court for killing a 23-year-old pregnant woman to rob her assets in the central coast city on June 17.
— Nearly 100 students of the Le Loi High School in Hanoi gathered at the school on Sunday to make 300 Vietnamese flags to give away to soldiers that are protecting the country’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.
— More than 30 hectares of the protection pine forest in the central province of Nghe An were completely destroyed by a raging fire lasting from Saturday mid-day to Sunday afternoon.
— Health officials began checking passengers’ temperatures that entered Vietnam via the Ho Chi Minh City-based Tan Son Nhat airport on Saturday, and have so far detected no abnormal cases.
— Two Aussie tourists were taken back to their hotel in the central resort city of Hoi An on Sunday after being rescued from a boat sinking six nautical miles off Cu Lao Cham a day earlier. The holidaymakers were rowing for a sightseeing tour when their boat capsized and sank due to strong winds.
Business
— Vissai Ninh Binh, a cement maker based in northern Ninh Binh Province, has shipped the first batch of 115,000 tons of clinker to France under a contract of exporting 1.5 million tons of the material in five years, its deputy chief said Sunday.
— Sagota, a subsidiary of the Saigon Beer Alcohol Beverage JSC, has officially begun production of the non-alcoholic beer starting Sunday.
Charity
— More than 5,000 people joined Sunday a walk around Ho Chi Minh City’s Phu My Hung urban area to show support for a fund run by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that grant sponsorships for poor students to pursue college education.
Sports
— Vietnam’s first-ever Fixed Gear race-using bicycles that have a drivetrain with no freewheel mechanism-took place at the 23-9 Park in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday.
— Southern football (soccer) club Becamex Binh Duong raised the trophy of the 2014 V-League – Vietnam’s top-tier football league – after drawing SHB Da Nang 1-1 on Sunday.
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