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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – May 5

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – May 5

Thursday, May 05, 2016, 08:15 GMT+7

Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, May 5

Politics

-- Hundreds of drilling-platform engineers and workers cast their votes for the deputies to the 14th NA and the People’s Councils at different levels for the 2016 – 2021 tenure on Wednesday, as they will be on duty at sea on the official election day, May 22.

-- The government should shift from using administrative orders to creating conditions and assisting development to increase its efficiency, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said at the regular cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

-- Vietnam commits to joining the United Nations’ efforts for a peaceful world and sustainable development, State President Tran Dai Quang asserted as he received UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Society                                                      

-- The Vietnamese subsidiary of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics in the north-central province of Ha Tinh underwent a comprehensive inspection by a multi-ministerial team on Wednesday, as its wastewater discharge system is allegedly linked to the mass fish deaths in central Vietnam.

-- Some 1.4 metric tons of dead fish, washing ashore beaches in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, were destroyed on Tuesday and Wednesday, in what is seen as reoccurrence of a mysterious mass fish deaths hitting central Vietnam early April.

-- Four female seventh graders drowned while swimming in a beach in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa on Wednesday.

-- A steel bar dropped down from the construction site of the infamous Cat Linh-Ha Dong urban railway project in Hanoi on Wednesday, hurting a man who was riding past on his motorbike.

-- A squid catching boat departing from the central province of Quang Nam was rammed and sunk by a Chinese vessel in Vietnamese waters on Tuesday, local authorities confirmed on Wednesday.

Business

-- Mango farmers in the southern province of Dong Thap have been hit by a rumor that the plastic bags used to wrap the fruit for insect protection are unsafe.

Lifestyle

-- The 2016 Hue Festival wrapped up its ninth edition in the central city of Hue on Wednesday, after five days of multiple festive activities.

-- After five years being held in Hanoi, the European Literature Day will be hosted in Ho Chi Minh City for the first time from May 8 to 12, promising a number of activities to lure local bookworms.

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