Tuoi Tre News briefs you on some of the leading stories published today, March 14, in Vietnamese media.Politics -- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and his spouse will pay official visits to Australia from March 17 to 18 and New Zealand from March 19 to 20, at the invitations of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and New Zealand Prime Minister John Key. These visits aim to strengthen the strategic partnership between Vietnam and the two nations.Society

-- According to a proposal raised on Friday by a research group under the Vietnam Party Central Committee's Commission for Internal Affairs, civil servants holding positions at ministerial bureau and department levels or higher should be banned from depositing money or property abroad or owning overseas property, as a new measure to prevent corruption and improve recovery of losses in corruption cases. -- Police in Vietnam’s southern hub Ho Chi Minh City on Friday said they have detained a 31-year-old man, Dang Minh Loc, for snatching an iPhone 6 from a South Korean woman, Hyeon Ju, when she was walking and using her phone on a street in District 1 on Thursday. -- A total of about 700 hectares of coffee plants in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong were seriously damaged by hoar-frost from March 10 to 13, the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on Friday. -- A semi-boarding house named Duc-Viet (Germany-Vietnam) 4 was inaugurated and handed over to Quan Hoa High School in Quan Hoa District in the central province of Thanh Hoa on Friday. The house, which can accommodate 50 students, was built at a cost of VND550 million (US$25,750), of which VND450 million came from Vietnamese living in Germany, while the remaining amount was contributed by the district authorities.Business -- As of July 1, 2015, in addition to applying for an investment certificate, foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) in Vietnam must carry out business registration procedures that are applied to domestic businesses, according to a new regulation. Also, like local businesses, FIEs are required to publicize their profile information as required by applicable laws.         -- The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam on Friday said the agency’s Inspectorate has issued decisions to fine Vietnamese national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines and budget carrier VietJet Air VND15 million (US$702) each for failing to provide their passengers with information about the delays of their flights on March 10 and 9 respectively.    -- A visiting delegation of Japanese businesses from Japan’s Hiroshima met with nearly 60 Vietnamese enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday to seek cooperation opportunities in technological transfers and import and export processing.Education -- All information related to Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago in the East Vietnam Sea has been included in history textbooks that are being printed to be used at junior and senior high schools in the central city of Da Nang in the second semester of the 2014-2015 school year, the city Department of Education and Training said on Friday.  Lifestyle -- A large music performance program to mark the 14th death anniversary (April 1) of the late Vietnamese musician Trinh Cong Son will kick off at Ban Nguyet Lake in the Phu My Hung urban area in Ho Chi Minh City on May 2. This mean the program will be a month later than previously planned, according to the family of the famous late composer, who was also a songwriter, painter and poet.Sports -- Arsenal will face West Ham in a match in the 29th round of the Premier League at 10 pm on Saturday, March 14 (Vietnam time). According to observers, Arsenal will likely continue its winning streakstring of three consecutive winning games by defeating West Ham, which gained only one victory in 10 recent games.

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