Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 12 Let us start your Sunday with a wrap-up of what you need to know in Vietnam:  Politics -- General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong on Saturday morning (Vietnam time) paid a visit to former U.S. President Bill Clinton, and his wife, Hillary Clinton, at their home in New York. General Secretary Trong underscored the couple’s noted contributions to forging the two countries’ ties in the past 20 years. -- On Saturday morning, some hundred veterans under Division 356 who fought at the Vi Xuyen battlefield, located in the northern province of Ha Giang, paid tribute to their comrades who perished during the northern border war. Over 600 officers and soldiers under the division lost their lives while combating Chinese invaders on July 12, 1984. Society -- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has reached a consensus on a plan to install surveillance cameras on over 2,700 buses operating within the city. The installation, meant to curb pick-pocketing and sexual harassment, and improve the quality of bus services, is expected to be complete within next year. -- As of Saturday, six days after the Red campaign, intended to promote blood donation across Vietnam, kicked off, its volunteer division in the southern region received almost 4,000 units of blood (1 unit = 250ml). -- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has recently unveiled a publicity plan to boost administrative reforms in 2015 and 2016. The plan will see the launch of sections receptive to people’s feedback and suggestions on the committee’s and relevant agencies’ websites. Business -- Locally-made educational toys are losing ground to their foreign counterparts, which are considerably less educative and designed based on in-vogue cartoons, and the increasingly popular use of digital devices among children. Lifestyle -- An exhibition themed “Hoang Sa- Truong Sa Belong to Vietnam – Historical and Legal Evidence” opened on Saturday in Nha Trang City, the heart of the south-central province of Khanh Hoa. The 2015 Nha Trang Sea Festival also kicked off on Saturday night and will run until July 14. Education -- The Integrated Circuit Design Research and Education Center under the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City has just announced their design of the IP core of JEPG2000, an image compression standard and coding system. The design is meant to create advanced photo microprocessors.  Sports -- Accomplished Vietnamese tennis player Ly Hoang Nam and his Indian teammate Sumit Nagal on Saturday evening (Vietnam time) beat their Serbian and Norwegian opponents, Miomir Kecmanovic and Casper Ruud, 2-1 in the men’s doubles semifinal of the 2015 Wimbledon Junior Championships, which will close in London on July 12 (UK time).    Tuoi Tre News