Briefs of some of leading news stories published on Tuesday (October 7) in Tuoi Tre Newspaper that will be carried today on Tuoitrenews.vn:
Politics:
-- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong yesterday had a talk with people in Hanoi and stressed the importance of the campaign to fight corruption and misspending.
-- Ms. Ung Thi Xuan Huong was yesterday appointed the head judge of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court.
Society:
-- Farmers in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have discovered a giant lingzhi mushroom, weighing 220kg. It is 1.7m x 1.2m x 0.6m and is believed to be thousands of years old.
-- The Drug Administration of Vietnam under the Ministry of Health has imported over 250,000 doses of vaccines to meet the demands of people.
-- Around one sixth of samples of vegetables and fruits at the three major wholesale markets in Ho Chi Minh City are tested positive to pesticides.
-- Nguyen Van Thien, vice director of the Huong Hoa District Hospital in the central Quang Tri Province and a nurse were charged by local police of dereliction of duty causing severe consequences since three infants died there after being given doses of vaccination.
Business:
-- European market has warned vegetables and fruits imported from Vietnam could contain harmful virus. It added that it will ban importing the Vietnamese goods if it detects five cases of harmful virus from February 1, 2014 to February 1, 2015. So far, three cases have been discovered.
-- Longan fruits grown in farms of Dong Thap and Ben Tre Provinces in the Mekong Delta have been granted licenses by quarantine agency of the US to export to the US market.
-- Hong Kong has invested US$120 million to build a fiber and textile materials producing factory in the Viet Huong 2 industrial park in the southern Binh Duong Province.
-- ETF Fund managed by the Vietfund Management (VFM) was listed on the Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange on October 5.
-- Song Hau Farm will not be disbanded but be operated as a limited company, said Dao Anh Dung, vice chairman of the People’s Committee of Can Tho City.
-- Fiona Woolf, the Lord Mayor of London, said the UK wants to support Vietnamese enterprises in infrastructure development projects.
-- The Ministry of Industry and Trade has announced a draft regulation to rule beer restaurants to keep temperature not exceeding 30 degrees Celsius.
Lifestyle:
-- The Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism in Hanoi has been left unused recently though it has an investment capital of VND3.2 trillion (US$153.8 million).