Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News- January 21
Saturday, January 21, 2017, 08:56 GMT+7
Check out the news you should not miss today, January 21, the 24th day of the last month of the lunar calendar, or ten days away from the Tet, or Lunar New Year holiday.
Politics -- Vietnam is ready to send more officers to UN peacekeeping operations, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army Pham Ngoc Minh asserted at talks with a delegation of the UK army medical services in Hanoi on Friday -- Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc wrapped up his participation at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland on Friday, having engaged in a continuous series of sessions and meetings with world and business leaders as part of his sideline activities.
Society
-- Vietnam's State President Tran Dai Quang met 50 overseas Vietnamese delegates in Hanoi on Friday, hailing their contributions to the country’s achievements. -- A Kilo-class submarine, the sixth and last of its kind Vietnam has purchased from Russia, arrived at Cam Ranh military port in the central coastal province of Khanh Hoa on Friday, after a 40-day journey
-- Major streets in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City suffered gridlock during rush hours on Friday, one week before Tet officially begins.
-- The Hanoi traffic police unit has proposed to stipulate that each capital resident be allowed to own one car with one fixed license plate; should they want to buy a new car, residents should sell the old one first.
Business
-- The government has approved a three-year pilot scheme, allowing Vietnamese citizens with a minimum monthly wage of VND10 million, to enter casinos across the country, which until today are only open to foreign or overseas Vietnamese gamblers.
-- The Ministry of Transport is slated to submit a proposal to earmark VND19.7 trillion (US$879.46 million) on expanding the capacity of overloaded Tan Son Nhat International Airport to the government next month.
-- The Saigon bus route 07 (Cho Lon Bus Station – Go Vap District) and 149 (23/9 Park – Binh Hung Hoa Residential Area) have been added with a new stop in the Saigon Railway Station starting Friday.
-- The tourism department of the north-central Vietnamese province of Quang Binh asserted that there is no project or plan to build a cable car system through the local Son Doong, the world’s largest cave, as recently rumored.
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