Enjoy your breakfast while reading these news items in brief on Tuoi Tre News today, December 28, 2014
Society
– Deputy director of Hanoi Department of Transport said on Saturday the department will not pilot a bus route for women for the time being. The route was seen as the capital city’s effort to combat sexual harassment against women on buses and other public places.
– Ho Chi Minh City officials reported at a Saturday meeting that the city’s economic growth and budget revenue have both exceeded expectations. The city’s per capita income is US$5,131 this year, a 12.89% year-on-year increase.
– Head of a rescue unit in Phu Loc District in central Thua Thien- Hue Province said by the end of Saturday they still did not find the two missing sailors who, along with three others, had fallen into the waters after their boat sank some 500 meters from Tu Hien Estuary earlier the same day.
Business
– The General Statistics Office announced at a Saturday press meeting that the country’s 2014 gross domestic product (GDP) has risen by around 5.98%- the highest in the past three years.
Lifestyle
– A critically acclaimed documentary on transgender people titled “Chuyen Di Cuoi Cung Cua Chi Phung” (The Last Journey of Madam Phung) is poised to hit Hanoi screens from Monday to Saturday next week. The film’s distributor made a decision to increase the number of its screenings to 30 from the initial 16 following a passionate embrace by Ho Chi Minh City cinemagoers.
– According to the deputy chair of the Nghe An Province People’s Committee, a ceremony held to receive the UNESCO’s recognition certificate on “Vi” and “Giam” folk songs, which are typical of the north-central Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh, is slated for January 31, 2015 at Ho Chi Minh Square in Nghe An Province. The genre was inscribed by the organization as an Intangible Cultural Heritage on November 27, 2014.
Sports
– Toyota Group will be the main sponsor of Vietnam’s top-flight V-League in 2015, heard a Saturday meeting in HCMC. The sponsor sums will be no less than VND30 billion (US$1.41 million,) according to Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper’s source.
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