Below are some of the main stories published today, August 4, in the Vietnamese press:
Politics
— Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh will lead a Vietnamese delegation to the 47th ASEAN Foreign Ministers Meeting to be held in Myanmar’ Nay Pyi Taw from August 5 to 10. The delegation will also partake in the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference, the 15th ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, the fourth East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, and the 21st ASEAN Regional Forum.
Society
— Hanoi police have detained two women on suspicion of selling an abandoned 2-year-old boy for VND35 million (US$1,650). One of the detainees is Nguyen Thanh Trang, 36, whomanaged orphaned children at Bo De Pagoda in Long Bien District. Locla police, who have previously squashed the rumor that children have been sold for adoption at the pagoda, are continuing their investigation into the case.
— Minimum wage must meet minimum living conditions, Dang Ngoc Tung, chairman of the Vietnam Labor General Confederation, said in an interview with Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper about an increase of regional minimum wages in 2015. According to the chairman, the current minimum wage rates can meet only 67-70 percent of minimum living conditions.
— Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has tasked the Ministry of Interior to develop a project to set up an index of public satisfaction with the performance of administrative apparatus of all levels. Such satisfaction is formed based on four factors: access to public administrative services, administrative procedures, civil servants’ service performance, and outcomes of public administrative services.
— The Vietnam People’s Navy, in conjunction with the authorities of northern Quang Ninh province, on Sunday conducted a memorial ceremony in Ha Long City for the naval soldiers who perished in the first victory of the country’s navy against the U.S. forces that invaded Vietnam’s waters in the Gulf of Tonkin in early August 1964.
— Police in northern Hai Duong province have detained a local young man for slashing his parents, grandmother and two cousins to death with a knife on Sunday night. Initial investigations showed that the 21-year-old man was suffering from a depression when committing the killing.
— The rate of children breastfed during the first six months of life in Vietnam is only 19.6 percent, the lowest in Southeast Asia, according to the statistics of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health.
Business
— More than 170 businesses have registered for joining the 2014 Vietnam Fisheries International Exhibition (Vietfish 2014) that will be taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from August 6 to 8. These businesses include those from the U.S., Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, and a number of European countries.
— The World Bank will finance Vietnam’s project to modernize tax administrative formalities for three years starting this year, said Deputy Minister of Finance Do Hoang Anh Tuan. The project will help improve tax policies, evaluate the public satisfaction with tax offices, set up legal foundations for management of risks, and apply advanced information technologies in tax management.
Education
— Nguyen Trong Nhan, a grade 12 student of Tien Giang Specialized High School in the southern province Tien Giang, won the first prize of US$35,000 in the final round of “The Road to Mt. Olympia” contest held on August 3. The intelligence quiz show is annual organized by Vietnam Television for outstanding students nationwide.
Sports
— The soccer match in which Manchester United defeated Real Madrid 3-1 at the Michigan Stadium in the U.S. on early Sunday morning (Vietnam time) has set a new record in the highest number of viewers in a match in the U.S. The match drew 109.319 onlookers, higher than the old record of 101.799 viewers who watched the final match of the 1984 Olympic at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, the U.S.
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