Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading news stories that are published today, August 23, in Vietnamese media.
Politics
— Vietnam will host the 5th ASEAN Sea Forum and the 3rd ASEAN Sea Forum Plus in the central city of Da Nang from August 26 to 28, according to the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Quang Vinh will lead the Vietnamese delegation at the events, which will discuss measures to boost cooperation at sea, evaluate initiatives of the forums’ country members, and indentify future orientations for the forums.
Society
— Duong Tu Trong, former deputy director of the northern city of Hai Phong’s police department, who is serving his 16-year sentence for organizing for his brother, Duong Chi Dung, former chairman of the State-owned shipping corporation Vinalines to flee abroad in May 2012 to avoid arrest for corruption, will be tried on August 28 for another offense: abusing positions and/or powers while performing official duties, Hanoi police said Friday.
— A 39-year-old man, Hoang Quoc Bien, the first patient in Vietnam to have a synthetic heart device (Heartwear) implanted in his chest, was discharged on Friday from Australia’s Saint Vincent hospital, where he underwent a five-hour surgery on June 6. Bien had been in the final stage of dilated cardiomyopathy. After the operation, his heart has responded well, doubling cardiac output to four liters per minute, doctors said.
— Police in northern Thai Nguyen Province on Friday busted a large drug trafficking case, arresting two men and seizing 100 bricks of heroin and 179 methamphetamine tablets, a kind of synthetics drugs, hidden in a car.
— Police in Hanoi have fined a local couple, Vuong Ba Huy, 31 and his wife Do Thuy Linh, 29, VND20 million (US$___) in total for spreading a canard on Facebook that a Vietnamese person had contracted the deadly Ebola virus. They had spread the striking rumor during August 11 and 12, causing great concern among the public.
Business
— Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, the holding company of the Dung Quat Oil Refinery Plant in central Quang Ngai Province, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Friday that it is negotiating with Russia’s Gazprom Neft Group on expanding the plant to raise its capacity to 9-10 billion tons of oil per year at a cost of between US$1.5 to $3 billion.
— The number of Vietnamese tourists to Japan has sharply been increasing for the past few years, as the costs of tours to Japan have been cheaper than several years before, said Kazuaki Maruo, the CEO of Japan’s Nippon Travel Agent at a meeting with leading Vietnamese tour operator Saigontourist on Friday. In the first half of 2004, more than 70,000 Vietnamese travelled to Japan, up 50 percent year on year.
Lifestyle
— An exhibition with a theme of “Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes belong to Vietnam” kicked off Friday at the central Quang Nam Province Cultural Center. The event is displaying numerous maps and materials that serve as legal and historic evidence to prove Vietnam’s sovereignty over the two archipelagoes. The event will last until August 28.
Sports
— Vietnamese star swimmer Nguyen Thi Anh Vien on Friday came fifth at the qualification round for the 400-meter freestyle at the 2014 IOC Youth Olympic Games, which is taking place at the Olympic Sports Centre Natatorium in Nanjing, China. She completed her contest after 4’16”65, 2”91 longer than the perfomance of Joanna Evans (Bahamas), who came first in the round. With such a result, Vien was eliminated from the tournament.
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