Enjoy your breakfast while reading these brief news items on Tuoi Tre News today, November 23, 2014.
Politics -- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and a high-ranking Vietnamese delegation have left Hanoi for an official visit to Russia and Belarus, which begins today, November 23, and wraps up next Friday. Business
— French aircraft manufacturer Airbus and national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines on Saturday launched in Hanoi a demonstration flight of the A350 XWB, the group’s latest aircraft model.
Society
— The 20th session of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, which opened on Saturday morning, saw delegates discuss feasible approaches to reach the target of boosting gross domestic product growth, among other socio-economic issues.
— Song Thu Corporation, under the Ministry of Defense, on Saturday organized in central Vietnam’s Da Nang City a keel laying ceremony for the vessel DN 2000 number 4 – the Vietnam Coast Guard’s most versatile and advanced ship.
— Two local firms based in Ho Chi Minh City have voluntarily offered to return their four land plots spanning a total of over 20,000m² in Binh Tan District and Districts 4 and 5 to the city’s management.
— Hanoi’s consumer price index (CPI) decreased by 0.3 percent in November compared to last month. The capital’s CPI has only risen by 1.79 percent since early this year – the lowest growth rate in the past 10 years.
— Dong Nai police in southern Vietnam on Saturday announced the arrest of a 21-year-old man, who had allegedly placed a homemade bomb gift in a teacher collective house building in the province’s Tan Phu District on Thursday as a ‘present’ for teachers. His bomb killed a 54-year-old woman on the spot when she unwrapped the package.
— A number of houses and streets in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Phu and Binh Tan Districts and District 11 got flooded as a result of two continuous end-of-season downpours on Saturday afternoon.
— The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has given its nod to a plan to conduct research on constructing and upgrading several arterial routes connecting Tan Cang Saigon and the city’s central areas to improve transport facilities and put an end to serious street flooding.
Đăng ký: VietNam News