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Politics

-- The Royal Australian Navy’s replenishment ship HMAS Sirius with more than 100 crewmembers on board  landed at Tien Sa Port in the central city of Da Nang on Friday, beginning its five-day visit to the city, during which its naval force and some units of Vietnam People’s Navy of Zone 3 will conduct professional exchanges and a joint training drill at sea, among other activities.

Society

-- Five people remain missing after their ship Hoang Phuc 18 with 16 crewmembers on board sank in the Soai Rap River in Ho Chi Minh City at about 8:00 pm on Friday, the municipal Maritime Administration said Saturday morning, adding that efforts to search for the missing sailors are underway.

-- Police in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Friday said they had arrested 27-year-old Russian nationality Nosov Denis, who was wanted by the Interpol since September this year for stabbing a countryman in Russia.

-- The People’s Court in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho on Friday sentenced a 72-year-old Taiwanese man, Lee Ya Te, to life imprisonment for stabbing his 48-year-old Vietnamese wife to death on May 3 over conflicts in their marital life.  

-- The Ministry of Finance has assigned the General Department of State Reserves to coordinate with authorities of centrally run provinces and cities to deliver 25,900 tons of rice to students in locations with special difficult conditions in the first semester of the 2015-16 school year.

Business

-- The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry’s Directorate General of Anti-dumping & Allied Duties has announced a dumping margin of 60-70 percent for dining tool sets and kitchen utensils made of melamine imported from Vietnam, the Vietnam Competition Authority under the Vietnamese Ministry of Industry and Trade reported on Friday.

-- The Vietnamese seafood sector may post a total export revenue of only US$6.6 billion this year, far behind the $8 million target set earlier this year, the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors has warned, based on the sector’s current weaknesses in terms of cost and product quality.

Lifestyle

-- Fifteen young Vietnamese architects will have their 15 works displayed at the Flamingo Dai Lai Resort in the northern province of Vinh Phuc from October 31 to November 8, as part of an architectural project titled “Art in the Forest”.

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