Here are some of the main stories you need to know on November 6, 2014.

Politics

-- Slovakia is willing to help Vietnam develop its energy industry, Slovakian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miroslav Lajcak said at the Vietnam-Slovakia Business Forum in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday.

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung on Wednesday received the outstanding residents, war invalids, and martyrs’ families of the northwestern region in Hanoi and praised them for their contributions to Vietnam’s socio-economic development, culture, security and defense.

Society

-- The Hanoi cybercriminal police unit announced Wednesday they had busted a ring, consisting of adolescents mostly from the central province of Quang Nam, that tricked mobile phone users by informing them via social networks that they had won valuable prizes and asking them to pay dozens of millions of dong to claim the fake gifts.

-- A fishing boat with four fishermen onboard went missing en route from Rach Gia City in the southern province of Kien Giang to the province’s Tho Chu Island on October 29, the commander of the provincial border soldier unit said late Wednesday.

-- More than 28,250 Chinese tourists have entered Vietnam via the Da Nang seaport using passports that include the illegal nine-dash line which violates the Southeast Asian country’s sovereignty in the East Vietnam Sea, the commander of the central Vietnamese city’s border soldier unit said Wednesday.

-- Three former customs officials in Ho Chi Minh City and the southern province of An Giang are in police custody over bribery charges, a source from the Ho Chi Minh City economic police said Wednesday.

Business

-- Jetstar Pacific is slated to put an Airbus A320 Sharklet aircraft into use today, November 6, the low-cost carrier announced after receiving the jetliner on Wednesday. The bent-back Sharklet wing tips offer fuel savings of about 3.5 percent.

-- A delegation of 100 Italian businesses is scheduled to visit Vietnam to seek investment opportunities from November 24 to 26, Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Lorenzo Angeloni revealed Wednesday.

-- Many coach operators have unveiled price cuts of around VND5,000 per journey for the Ho Chi Minh City – Vung Tau service following slumping fuel prices. Vietnamese fuel wholesalers reportedly enjoy a whopping profit of VND1,000 per liter as global prices continue to slide.

Lifestyle

-- Lovers of Japanese films in Vietnam will be treated to 35 free movies during a film festival running from November 13 to 18 in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Nonagenarian music composer Phan Huynh Dieu hosted Wednesday a press conference on his upcoming live show to mark his 90^th birthday in Ho Chi Minh City this Sunday.