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Politics - Le Vendémiaire, a cruiser of the French Navy, arrived Saturday in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang's Tien Sa Port for a four-day visit. Society
– A representative of Ho Chi Minh Square in central Vietnam’s Nghe An Province said on Saturday that 20 cherry blossom trees presented by a Japanese company director have been grown in the square.
– Around 4am, a truck crashed and overturned on a section of the National Highway 20 in Bao Loc City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. One hour later, some 10 kilometers from the crash site, another truck also overturned.
– According to the local police in central Vietnam’s Khanh Hoa Province, a big wild boar on Saturday afternoon attacked and killed a 15-year-old boy. The boar then struck a 49-year-old woman who was working on a paddy field nearby, leaving her critically injured. In late October, another wild boar also attacked and killed a woman in central Quang Nam Province’s Duc Pho District.
– The Kien Giang Province’s People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta on Saturday held a ceremony to announce the Prime Minister’s decision to recognize Phu Quoc Island District as a level-two township. The provincial administration is also poised to submit its proposal to set up Phu Quoc City administered by the provincial government, which will pave the way for the island to become a special economic-administrative region by 2020.
– A meeting held by the Ministry of Health on Saturday in Hanoi heard that Vietnam sees an average of roughly 150,000 premature births every year. The rate of premature births is on the worrying rise in the country, doctors reported at the meeting.
– A female teacher, aged 44, was swept away and killed by flooded sewage only less than 300 meters from her elementary school in Son Tinh District in central Vietnam’s Quang Ngai Province on Friday afternoon.
Business
– A seminar, held by Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper and Japan’s Mainichi on Saturday in Ho Chi Minh City, promotes cooperation between Vietnam’s abundant natural and human resources with hi-end Japanese technology in the coming time to boost the volume and quality of Vietnamese produce.
– Many National Assembly deputies at the Saturday afternoon session backed the plan to hike tax on cigarettes, alcohol and beer.
– Though in for a race for Tet (traditional Lunar New Year)- the year’s biggest shopping season- which is some three months away, sales at most local supermarkets and conventional markets remain poor, with sellers even outnumbering shoppers.
Lifestyle
– A hairstylist who held a Vietnamese record for cutting hair with 11 scissors at one go in the shortest of time, has been drawing many clients to his shop in central Vietnam’s Da Nang City for his exceptional skills in hair cutting and styling by using sharp Japanese swords.
– The Vietnamese version of “Soapstar Superstar”- a British singing TV reality show- which features only actors and actresses, is slated to begin airing at 9.20pm tonight on national broadcaster VTV9.
Education
– An international seminar on nanotechnology and molecules took place on Saturday at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science.
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