Here are a summary of the leading news stories published in the Vietnamese press for December 22, 2014.
Politics
— Events are held nationwide to mark the 70th founding anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army today, December 22.
— Vietnam and Cambodia have plenty of room to further their ties, President Truong Tan Sang told Rasmei Kampuchea, the largest Khmer daily in Cambodia, in an interview published Sunday ahead of his visit to the country on December 23-24.
— Minister of Defense Phung Quang Thanh met with Minister of Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces Leopoldo Cintra Frias in Hanoi on Sunday to discuss orientations for defense cooperation in the coming time.
Society
— The Vietnamese workers trapped inside a collapsed hydropower tunnel section in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong last week recalled their 82 hours of living in fear during an online chat hosted by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Sunday.
— A raging fire broke out in the laboratory of the Dong Nai Province-based University of Technology and another one erupted in a warehouse in the same southern province on Sunday. There were no casualties in both incidents.
— A charitable organization hosted Sunday a party to celebrate Christmas for child patients at the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion in Hanoi.
— The Vietnamese aviation sector experienced 71 incidents this year, more than double the 35 cases recorded in 2013, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has said.
— The average height of Vietnamese children under five is 74.5-103.6 cm for boys and 73.2-102.9 cm for girls, the shortest among the tracked countries including Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines, a Vietnamese Ministry of Health official told a conference in Hanoi.
Business
— The total capacity of Vietnam’s national grid is more than 34,000MW, ranking 31st in the world, Pham Le Thanh, general director of the state-run power giant Vietnam Electricity said Sunday.
— A group of scientists at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Science have successfully developed an Android app to help the visually challenged to use smartphones.
— The Vietnamese Ministry of Finance is considering asking Uber to pay a three percent value-added and two percent corporate income taxes on revenue it generates in Vietnam.
Lifestyle
— The fifth Lam Dong Tea Culture Week 2014 themed “Tea Flavor on Lam Dong Plateau” kicked off Sunday in Bao Loc, the capital city of the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong.
— Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh returned to My Lai Village in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Son Tinh District, where U.S. troops killed 504 unarmed villagers on March 16, 1968. Hersh won the Pulitzer for an investigation into the massacre in 1970.
— Young Indian actress Avika Gor had a meeting with her Vietnamese fans in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. The 17-year-old is known for her role as an eight-year-old bride in the “Balika Vadhu” TV drama.
Sports
— Leading Vietnamese striker Le Cong Vinh will tie the knot with popular singer Thuy Tien this Saturday after six years being in a romantic relationship.
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