Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 20

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Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading stories published today, December 20, in Vietnamese media.Politics


— Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung will deliver a speech at the opening meeting of the 5th Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Summit in Bangkok, Thailand on Saturday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The PM’s attendance shows Vietnam’s support for the GMS mechanism and affirms the country’s determination to promote sub-regional links as well as the friendly relations between Vietnam and other nations in the sub-region.


Society


— After arriving in Thailand on Friday evening for a regional summit, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung sent a congratulatory letter back to the joint rescue force that had safely taken 12 Vietnamese workers out of a collapsed tunnel at a hydropower plant in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong. The victims were rescued at 4:35 pm the same day after over 80 hours of being trapped there and fed with nutrients pumped to them through a pipe put into a drill hole.


— A fishing boat from the southern province of Ben Tre found and rescued nine fishermen drifting at sea on Friday evening, local authorities reported. They are among the ten fishermen whose boat lost contact with the mainland on December 17, a day after they left the southern province of Bac Lieu.


— It is Vietnam’s consistent policy not to consider prostitution legal, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam at a conference on anti-prostitution held in Hanoi on Friday. He criticized the conception that prostitution is needed as a boost to tourism development. He, however, noted that anti-prostitution measures in Vietnam must be taken on the basis of protection of human rights.


— The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Natural Resources and Environment on Friday completed its draft State’s land price list for the city for 2015. Accordingly, the State’s highest and lowest land prices in the city are suggested to be VND162 million (US$7,575) per m2 and VND1.5 million ($70.1) per m2. The prices in the list are equal to about 30 percent of the market prices for the same types of land.


Business


— Vietnam’s Ministry of Finance has agreed to the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV)’s proposal to reduce the airfare ceiling price for the business class on domestic flights from VND5,000 (US$0.23) per km to VND4,250 per km ($0.20) (not inclusive of VAT) from January 1, 2015, the CAAV said on Friday. Accordingly, an air ticket for the Ho Chi Minh City-Hanoi route will decrease by VND850,000 ($39.7) to about VND4.8 million ($224) next year.


— The Turkish Ministry of Economics is investigating a steel-dumping lawsuit filed by India-based Jindal Stainless Limited against Chinese and Taiwanese companies that have imported stainless welding steel pipes from Vietnam and Malaysia and then export them to Turkey, the Vietnam Competition Authority under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade said on Friday.


Lifestyle


— State President Truong Tan Sang on Friday posthumously conferred a Bravery Medal on Tran Ba Cong, a man who perished at 41 when talking part in extinguishing a forest fire in Yen Thanh District, the central province of Nghe An on May 25, 2014. Cong is survived his wife and three children who are living in difficult conditions in the district.


Sports


— Both the Manchester United (M.U) and Manchester City (M.C) squads are expected to win their matches against their respective rivals Aston Villa and Crystal Palace in the 17th round of the Premier League at 7:45 pm and 10 pm tonight (Vietnam time), according to sports commentators.


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