Enjoy your breakfast while reading these news items on today’s Vietnamese media:
Politics
– State President Truong Tan Sang on Sunday led a Vietnamese delegation to Beijing to partake in the 22nd Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Business
– Can Tho City’s People’s Committee in the Mekong Delta has proposed that the Ministry of Transport launch more international and domestic air routes to Can Tho Airport. According to the Aviation Department, despite preferential policies, the traffic to and from Can Tho Airport remains poor.
Society
– According to an official of Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, 4,936 expats have had their automobile driving licenses changed since January 2014, almost double the number in 2013.
– According to the Southern Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, the tides on Saturday afternoon reached 1.59m, causing flooding in several streets in HCMC. It’s forecast that the tides on Sunday will stay at 1.53-1.58m before subsiding in the next days.
– 16 crew members of Indonesia ship Cosmic 9 were rescued from a fire which engulfed their vessel around 4am on Saturday, when it was anchoring at a petroleum depot in northern Hai Phong Province.
– Around 4.40am on Saturday, a truck carrying railway bars had an accident when travelling on the section of the National Highway 1 in central Phu Yen Province’s Dong Hoa District. The impact killed the truck’s two attendants and injured its driver.
– The National Seminar on the participation of religious institutions and individuals in offering kindergarten services, held for the first time in HCMC on Saturday, heard that religious institutions and individuals have established 269 kindergarten schools and 905 independent kindergarten classes nationwide from January to October 2014. The number accounts for 1.9% of the country’s total number of kindergartens.
– On Saturday morning, when Minister of Transport Dinh La Thang was inspecting the progress of the road which connects Nhat Tan to Noi Bai, he was unexpectedly surrounded by some hundred locals of Hanoi’s Dong Anh District. The people lamented that the road construction has deprived them of the path to their paddy fields.
– Cho Ray Hospital, one of HCMC’s major medical institutions, has issued their organ donation cards for the first time nationwide. The issue has expanded the supply of donated organs and raised hopes for over 10,000 expectant patients.
– A recent social survey by the HCMC Ethnology and Anthropology Association, launched in four Vietnamese major cities of Hanoi, Da Nang, HCMC and Can Tho, revealed an alarming rate of young children’s abuse of digital device. According to the survey, up to 78% kids under 6 years old now use digital device, including smartphones and tablets.
Lifestyle
– Some 8,000 contestants from Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta and HCMC participated in the preliminary round of “Solo cung Bolero” (Performing Bolero solo). The purely Vietnamese reality show highlights Bolero, a Latin American tune which was popularly adopted in songs in southern Vietnam since the 1950s.
Sports
– Two local newspapers “The Thao 24h” and Vietnam Television VTV’s “Chuyen Dong 24h” program on Saturday reported that Nguyen Cong Phuong, captain of Vietnam’s U-19 football (soccer) team, was born in 1993, not 1995, raising doubts on the young player’s alleged age fraud.
– Vietnamese weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan on Saturday brought home a gold and two silver medals at the ongoing 2014 International Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Đăng ký: VietNam News
