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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 26

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 26

Friday, September 26, 2014, 08:35 GMT+7

Enjoy your breakfast while reading this summary of important news items:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh held bilateral meetings with his Finnish and Tanzanian counterparts on the sidelines of the 69th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday (local time), according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Australian naval ship HMAS Larrakia anchored at a Ho Chi Minh port on Thursday, starting its four-day visit to Vietnam, according to Vietnamplus under the Vietnam News Agency.   

-- The Vietnam People’s Navy received a new warship built by a local company on Thursday. The ship is 54.16 meters long and 9.16 meters wide. It has a maximum displacement of 480 metric tons and can travel as fast as 32 nautical miles per hour.

Society

-- Many people were maimed on Thursday when three trucks crashed into four passenger buses in the southern province of Tien Giang.  

-- Police still looked into the cause of an explosion on Thursday that killed a 73-year-old man in downtown Ho Chi Minh City.  

-- Two people are in Ho Chi Minh City police custody after one of them used a gun to threaten public servants at the office of the Tan Phu District People’s Committee on Thursday. The two wanted to get their papers certified at the office but the committee’s staff refused them, saying they were not bringing enough documents. The duo thought it was red tape and one of them pulled out a gun to intimidate the staff. Police captured them shortly afterward.

-- An ASEAN skills competition will take place in Hanoi from October 19 to 29, the Vietnamese Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs said Thursday in a press conference. Over 50 Vietnamese contestants will compete with almost 250 others from nine countries in 25 areas of skills.

-- A Ministry of Construction official told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Thursday that a crack on a newly-opened expressway, worth over US$1 billion, connecting Hanoi to other rural provinces in the north could stem from weak ground conditions. Authorities should conduct a drilling survey before arriving at any conclusion on what caused the break, the official said.  

-- Dr. McKay McKinnon who removed a 90kg tumor from the leg of Vietnamese patient Nguyen Duy Hai from the Central Highlands in 2012 carried out operations with help from his colleagues at FV Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to cut tumors off the faces of five patients on Thursday.

Business

-- The Vietnamese government has suggested the National Assembly pass laws meant to increase tariffs on alcohol, beer, and cigarettes.  

-- Instant noodles have become a cash cow for small traders to FMCG giants in the Vietnamese market, according to a long report published in Vietnamese in Tuoi Tre on Friday.

-- Singaporean investors are beefing up their investment in real estate in Vietnam in general and Ho Chi Minh City in particular, Goh Chok Tong, Singapore’s former Prime Minister, said Thursday during a meeting with the chairman of the HCMC People’s Committee, Le Hoang Quan.

Sports

-- Vietnam will clash with UAE in the last-16 round of the men’s football event at the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea on Friday. The Vietnamese will also play archrivals Thailand in the quarterfinals in the women’s football event at the same Games today.  

-- Phan Thi Ha Thanh won a silver medal for Vietnam in the women's balance beam event at the 2014 Asian Games in South Korea on Thursday, her second medal at the competition.

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