Enjoy your breakfast while reading this summary of important news items:
Politics
— Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung had meetings with his Chinese and Japanese counterparts in the Italian city of Milan on Thursday on the sidelines of the 10th Asian-Europe Meeting Summit, according to the Vietnam News Agency.
— Tong Thi Phong, Vice Chairwoman of the Vietnamese National Assembly, congratulated Bangladeshi parliamentarian Saber Chowdhury on Thursday on his election as President of the Inter-Parliamentary Union the same day, the Vietnam News Agency reported.
Society
— Fourteen fierce storms battered Vietnam and afflicted over four million people in 2013, according to figures released at a conference the Red Cross of Vietnam organized on Thursday in Hanoi.
— A fisherman in Ho Chi Minh City caught a fish weighing 128kg on Wednesday and sold it for VND200 million (US$9,400).
— The Vietnamese Ministry of Home Affairs has demanded the Vietnam Food Association (VFA) hold an election again to select its chairman and submit a report on the election before November 15. Some member food firms had complained that the election of Nguyen Hung Linh as chairman of the association on March 20 was against VFA regulations and the law.
— A woman stabbed her husband to death on Thursday on the premises of a courthouse in the southern province of Binh Phuoc after they finished initial procedures for their divorce at the local court, provincial police said the same day. The two got divorced once and remarried in 2012.
Business
— Representatives of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam and the Ministry of Defense said Thursday at a meeting that Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City cannot be expanded anymore because it now suffers congestion both on the ground and in the air.
— Ho Chi Minh City received $2.6 billion in newly registered capitals of foreign direct investment companies in the year to October 15, according to the local Department of Planning and Investment.
— Farmers in Quynh Luong, a hamlet in the central province of Nghe An, have earned a decent income since 2003 when they first set up websites to sell their green and clean vegetables, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported Thursday in a feature story.
Lifestyle
— German pianist Boris Schönleber will perform in Vietnam on October 19, 25, and 26.
Sports
— Vietnam’s top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh bowed out of the Denmark Open on Thursday after losing 0-2 (16-21, 13-21) to his Chinese opponent Houwei Tian in the second round of the men’s singles category.
Education
— Authorities in the northern Vietnamese province of Hung Yen granted an investment license to the developer of a project to build Tokyo Vietnam Medical University on Thursday. The university will train 4,000 students a year, according to the developer’s plan.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
