Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – February 26
Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading stories published today in
Vietnamese media.
Politics
-- On February 25, Le Thanh Hai, Ho Chi Minh
City Party Committee Secretary, led a delegation to visit the families of
late Professor-Doctor Nguyen Thien Thanh, former director of Thong Nhat Hospital
in Go Vap District, and of late Doctor Duong Quang Trung, former director of
the city’s Department of Health. The visit was paid on the occasion of the
60th anniversary of Vietnamese Doctors' Day (February 27, 1955 – February 27,
2015).
-- A Ministry of Foreign Affairs
representative on February 25 confirmed that Party General Secretary Nguyen
Phu Trong will visit the U.S.
this year. Earlier, the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of
Vietnam to the U.S. had sent a letter to President Barack Obama to propose
the two sides prepare for the trip of the Vietnamese Party General Secretary
and consider it an important milestone in the two countries’ diplomatic
relation.
Society
-- Police of District 1 in Ho Chi Minh City are probing the death of
J.H.E., a 37-year-old American, who died naked on Wednesday after falling
from the 8th floor of a hotel on Thi
Sach Street in District 1. Initial investigation
shows the victim could fall by himself when he climbed onto the balcony.
-- Hanoi
police on Wednesday arrested American national Alexander Cong Giap, 56, who
had been wanted by Interpol for fraud. Alexander Cong Giap was suspected of
appropriating US$170,000 in the U.S.
Business
-- The Department of Electronic Commerce and
Information Technology under the Ministry of Industry and Trade has recently
unveiled a report on Vietnam’s
e-commerce in 2014. Accordingly, Vietnamese people spent $2.97 billion
shopping online last year. Sixty percent of the purchases were electronics
and technology products.
Lifestyle
-- On Wednesday, the cruise ship Silver
Whisper from the Bahamas
brought nearly 700 foreign tourists to the central province of Thua
Thien-Hue. The tourists have visited local
destinations like Hue, Da Nang City
and Hoi An Ancient Town.
-- Radio the Voice of Vietnam will have an English
channel broadcasting 24/7 following the approval of Deputy Prime
Minister Vu Duc Dam. The channel is scheduled to be on air from the third
quarter of this year.
-- A number of festivals in Vietnam have
raised public eyebrows for its violence and cruelty. Many of them have seen
participants jostling each other and getting injured at those events.
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