Thứ Năm, 16 tháng 6, 2016

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – June 16

 
Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, June 16:
Politics
-- Vietnam will try its best to foster the neighborly friendship, solidarity and comprehensive cooperation with Cambodia, Vietnamese State President Tran Dai Quang said during meetings with leaders of the Cambodian legislature and government in Phnom Penh on Wednesday.
-- Visiting Lao Minister of Science and Technology Boviengkham Vongdara called on support from Ho Chi Minh City authorities to facilitate joint science and technology projects, as he was received by the city’s deputy chairman Le Thanh Liem on Wednesday.
Society                                                      
-- The administration of the central city of Da Nang is expected to build a VND4 trillion (US$178.57 million) underwater tunnel beneath its iconic Han River.
-- The hot spell in the northern region of Vietnam, which roasted Hanoi with a peak at 40 degrees Celsius, is forecast to end today, June 16, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting
-- Fifty ships were dispatched on Wednesday to search for the missing pilot of a Russian-made fighter jet of the Vietnam People’s Air Force, one day after it went off radar during a training session.
-- Vietnam’s traffic police unit and the Vietnam Post closed Wednesday an agreement that will allow traffic violators to pay fines and get back their temporarily seized papers at the nearest post offices.
Business                                                                                               
-- Vietnam’s oil revenue in the first five months of this year topped VND15.89 trillion ($709.38 million), meeting only 29.2 percent of the full-year target and dropped 50 percent from a year earlier, mostly because of a five-month average price as low as $38.1 a barrel, the country’s taxman said Wednesday.
-- Dozens of hectares of peanut crops in the southern province of An Giang have reached harvest time with no nuts at all, even though the aboveground parts of the plants are growing well.
Lifestyle
-- Hundreds of domestic and international tattoo artists will have a chance to exchange experience and ideas on the art of tattooing at the maiden International Tattoo Convention in Hanoi from June 23 to 24.
Education
-- The Vietnam National University - Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) jumped 54 notches to enter the Top 150 of the QS University Rankings: Asia, an annual ranking of top universities in the region. The Vietnamese university stood at the 147th place in the list, topped by the National University of Singapore.  
Sports
-- Vietnam has so far secured 20 Olympic berths at the upcoming Rio 2016 in Brazil this August, exceeding its target of 16-18 tickets, according to the General Department of Sports and Physical Training
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