Briefs of some of leading news stories published Tuesday (March 26) in Tuoi Tre Newspaper that will be carried today on Tuoitrenews.vn:
Politics:
-- Le Hong Anh, standing member of the Party’s Central Secretariat, noted at a meeting on road safety yesterday that authorities in many localities have failed to carry out measures to ensure traffic regulations. In the first three months this year, Vietnam had 6,258 traffic accidents, killing 2,599 people and 6,405 others injured.
-- Vietnam yesterday demanded Chinese authority to investigate and punish its staff for opening fire at a fishing boat of Vietnam in Vietnam’s sea waters on March 20. It is labeled a wrong and inhuman action.
Society:
-- Since May this year, Ho Chi Minh City police will begin punishing drivers driving over-speed in the tunnel crossing Saigon River. The speed limit in the tunnel is from 30 kph – 60 kph.
-- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment and the Ministry of Finance are to suggest the government to exempt land owners from the registration cost of building land registered for certificates for the first time in 2013.
-- The expansion of the National Highway 1A from the central province of Thanh Hoa to Can Tho City in the south will get started no later than May this year. The total cost of the job is almost VND93.4 trillion (US$4.5 billion).
-- Vietnam listed ten most fatal epidemics in the nation in 2012, including rabies, dengue fever, foot-and-mouth disease, brain infection caused by virus, tetanus, and malaria, according to Nguyen Van Binh, chief of the Preventative Health Department under the Ministry of Health.
Business:
-- Fuel firms in Vietnam have earned a profit of at least tens of billion dong a day (VND10 billion = US$481,000) after the Ministry of Finance granted them to use the fund for stabilizing oil prices.
-- 12 travel projects in the central province of Binh Thuan, which were delayed and damaged by the Ke Ga Port Project, will be compensated in the coming time. Owners of the travel projects estimate that they suffer a total loss of VND1 trillion ($48 million).
-- Samsung Electronics yesterday started the construction of a mobile phone plant in the northern province of Thai Nguyen at a total investment capital of US$2 billion. This is the second plant of Samsung in Vietnam, after the first one in Bac Ninh.
-- The State Bank of Vietnam yesterday decided to lower the ceiling interest rate to 7.5 percent a year for deposits of under 12 months’ time as of March 26.
Lifestyle:
-- Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City will host several classic music programs in two days March 29-30.
-- Da Nang Champa Sculpture Museum will launch a showroom entitled ‘Discovery of World Heritage in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam’. The exhibition is to last till March next year.