Briefs of some of leading news stories published Tuesday (December 31) in Tuoi Tre Newspaper:

Politics:

-- Nguyen Thien Nhan, chairman of the central committee of Vietnam Fatherland Front – which is an umbrella group of mass movements in Vietnam, yesterday presided a meeting for the organization of an anniversary on the victory over the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung agreed with the suggestion of the Vietnam Association of Historical Sciences to include information about Hoang Sa (Paracel), Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and the East Sea in schoolbooks.

Society:

-- High tide in Ho Chi Minh City on early days of 2014 will reach 1.57m, the third danger level.

-- Police department of Hai Phong City and the central police department for administrative and social order management yesterday started its pilot project to grant citizenship code to 1.8 million people in the city. The code is designed to replace identity papers and family record books.

-- Thousands of households in districts 9 and Thu Duc had no clean water supply for three days till December 30 after a local water pipe was damaged.

-- Eight fishermen have been missing after a fishing ship was capsized 20 nautical miles from Mui Ne in the central Binh Thuan Province on December 27.

-- Tens of tons of fish kept in cage on Dong Nai River in Bien Hoa City died due to contaminated water.

Business:

-- The state-owned shipbuilding agency Vinashin will be renamed as the Shipbuilding Industry Corporation as of January 1, 2014.

-- A survey on over 3,000 enterprises in Vietnam showed that only 48 percent of them use online public services.

Lifestyle:

-- The musical event RockStorm 2013 organized in major cities in Vietnam has collected a total of VND1.37 billion (US$65,900) after six shows and will donate all of the proceeds to charity funds.

Education:

-- Nearly 100 universities and colleges that are privately owned can’t recruit half of their targeted number of students in the 2013 school year, according to the Ministry of Education and Training.

Sports:

-- The 2014 World Cup trophy will arrive in Hanoi on January 1, 2014.