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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – March 8

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – March 8

Sunday, March 08, 2015, 08:12 GMT+7

Happy International Women’s Day, dear readers!

Politics

-- General Phung Quang Thanh, Vietnam’s Minister of National Defense, and his Cambodian counterpart, General Tea Banh, signed a protocol and cooperation plan between the two ministries for this year in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday afternoon.   

Society

-- A Vietnam Airlines flight which departed from Hanoi at 7:30 am on Saturday and was destined for the southern city of Can Tho failed to land at Can Tho Airport due to technical problems after approaching it. The plane then flew to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City instead. After a 1.5-hour wait, all the passengers were transferred to another plane, which carried them to Can Tho Airport.

-- Around 3:00 pm on Saturday, a crane, which measures 46 meters in length, collapsed on a section of Nguyen Huu Tho Street in Hoang Mai District, Hanoi. The incident injured no one but caused traffic congestion for a while.

-- According to Ho Chi Minh City's Urban Traffic Management Zone No.1, 106 “loc vung” (Barringtonia acutangula) trees will be grown on the square of Nguyen Hue Pedestrian Street in the downtown area, which is currently under construction.

Business

-- Representatives of Tan Hiep Phat Co. Ltd., a Vietnamese beverage producer, on Saturday met with a restaurant owner in Cam Ranh City in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa after the restaurateur reported that six of the company’s Dr. Thanh herbal tea bottles contained flies, animal hairs, and moss. Earlier last month, the company agreed to pay half a billion dong ($23,300) to buy the silence of a customer who found a dead fly in an unopened bottle of its energy drink. But before sending a representative to made the payment, Tan Hiep Phat reported to the police, who eventually arrested the customer for alleged “confiscation of property.” Several other customers have since pointed out the presence of alien objects in the company’s products, but a recent inspection found the firm meets all food safety criteria.

-- The Ministry of Planning and Investment has just submitted to the central government a resolution on measures to improve the country’s corporate environment and competitive edge for this year. The resolution sets several targets for ministries to achieve this year, including shortening the tax payment time to 121.5 hours per year from 872 hours per year in 2013.

Education

-- Dr. Tran Ha Lien Phuong, a lecturer at a major university in Ho Chi Minh City, has become Vietnam’s first female scientist to be honored by the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science program, which recognizes the achievements and contributions of exceptional females across the globe. Phuong and 14 other outstanding female scientists from different countries are poised to receive the honor at a ceremony organized in Paris on March 18.

Lifestyle

-- The management of a tourism wharf in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang have reported they received around 3,200 tourists at their ecotourism spots on Saturday morning alone, which is several times higher than that on normal days.

Sports

-- Vietnamese badminton player Ly Hoang Nam on Saturday was defeated by his Japanese opponent, Akira Santillan, in the final game of the Chang Thailand ITF Junior G1, which is running in Thailand.

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