Enjoy your Christmas holiday but just spend some time reading these news items in brief on Tuoi Tre News today, December 24, 2014.
Society - The Central Executive Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union on Tuesday handed away journalism prizes on the topic of youth. Tuoi Tre
(Youth) Newspaper grabbed a special prize and two third prizes for its three articles and series of features.
– An exhibition on Da Lat’s flowers and vegetables is going on in Da Lat resort town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong until Saturday. One of its highlights is a stall which displays and shows visitors how to tell a number of the city’s iconic products from those from China.
– The District 3 People’s Court in Ho Chi Minh City decided on Tuesday to send 11 first drug addicts to a rehabilitation center where compulsory detoxification will be applied on them. The move is part of the city’s campaign to send junkies to compulsory detoxification centers, which kicked off early this month.
– According to an official of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, a group of Vietnamese and Japanese scientists have just discovered a complex of volcanic grottos in Krong No District in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong. The complex boasts a volcanic grotto which is Southeast Asia’s longest.
– Nguyen Manh Tuong, a cosmetic surgeon who was sentenced to 19 years in prison on December 5 for throwing the body of a female patient into a river after she died during a botched surgery at his private beauty salon in Hanoi last year, has filed his appeal, the Hanoi People’s Court said on Tuesday.
– The Tuesday appeal hearing by the Hai Phong City People’s Court in northern Vietnam upheld imprisonment sentences of 15 months and three months on two defendants, while two others were saved from criminal penalty on charges of robbery. The defendants, who are high school students, playfully grabbed the hats which their two female friends were wearing in the city’s Tien Lang District in September last year.
– Work started Tuesday on the Rach Chiec metro terminal on Hanoi Expressway in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. The terminal is designed to handle some 8,300 passengers an hour during peak hours.
Business
– A high-ranking official of the Ministry of Public Security announced at a Tuesday meeting that the Politburo has suspended the plan to establish a tourism police force, and requested a mechanism be built to ensure security in the tourism sector instead.
– Representatives of the Ministry of Finance told Tuoi Tre on Tuesday that the ministry will impose strict penalties on transportation businesses that refuse to decrease their rates in accordance with the gasoline price cuts in the past several months, including the latest record cut on Monday.
Sports
– The Vietnam Open 2014 — a table tennis championship tournament launched by Cong An Nhan Dan (People’s Police) Newspaper in coordination with the Vietnam Table Tennis Forum and the Vietnam Table Tennis Federation — is set to take place at Hanoi’s Cau Giay Stadium from Thursday to Sunday.
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