Enjoy your breakfast while reading these brief news items on Tuoi Tre News today, November 21.
Politics
— At a National Assembly (NA) meeting on Thursday afternoon, only two out of 10 deputies expressed their support for the proposed amendment to the NA’s resolution on confidence votes that three levels – high confidence, confidence and low confidence – should be adopted and the confidence vote should be conducted only once each term.
— The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved the appointment of veteran diplomat Ted Osius as the ambassador to Vietnam.
Society
— Nine Vietnamese fishermen, who drifted for over 30 hours off Singapore and were rescued on Tuesday and taken to the island country by the Gibraltar-flagged container ship Mare Britannicum, arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Thursday afternoon.
— Hundreds of locals in the northern city of Hai Phong on Thursday morning scrambled at Dong Bac Canal near a rain water pump station for oil spills, estimated at some 300 tons.
— The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has fined five local newspapers, including Thanh Nien (Young People) and Tien Phong (Vanguard), VND6 to 15 million (up to US$706), for publishing an inaccurate story indicating that Hanoi is one of the world’s top 10 pickpocket locations.
Business
— Korean firm National Housing Organization (NHO) and Vietnam’s Thien But Co. on Thursday took over a project to build the 51-hectare Tay Song Hau residential zone in Long Xuyen City of An Giang Province in the Mekong Delta. The zone will help boost economic activity between Vietnam and Cambodia.
— According to the Vietnam Tea Association (Vitas), nearly 200 tons of Oolong Vietnam tea worth some hundreds of billions of dong (VND1 billion ~ $47,000) were cleared for entrance into Taiwan on Thursday. The tea was made by local and Taiwanese producers based in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and had been stopped at Taiwanese ports since September this year due to the rumor that it was infected with dioxin. The provincial administration announced on Tuesday that all of the land zoned for tea production in Lam Dong is dioxin-free, refuting the rumor which began in Taiwan that has hurt local tea growers for months.
— Hundreds of stall owners at An Dong Plaza in District 5, Ho Chi Minh City, on Thursday morning went on strike by refusing to open their stalls to demand the management cut down on stall rent.
— A Ho Chi Minh City official announced at a Thursday meeting that the city’s Department of Planning and Investment has launched online business registration for foreign-invested firms since November 10, but the conduct has yet to meet expectations.
Education
— A delegation from South Korea’s Daekyung University on Thursday met with the authorities from the People’s Committee of Kien Giang Province in southern Vietnam to get ready for their collaboration on building a vocational school in the province’s Phu Quoc Island.
Sports
— Young Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam beat his Canadian rival in a Thursday match (Vietnam time) in the second round of the III Abierto Juvenil Mexicano, which is running in Mexico City, Mexico until Sunday.
Lifestyle
— Forty outstanding contestants of the Miss Vietnam 2014 pageant are set to enter the finals slated to run from Sunday to December 6 in Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam’s Kien Giang Province, heard a press meeting on Thursday morning.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
