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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – June 24

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – June 24

Wednesday, June 24, 2015, 08:30 GMT+7

Politics

-- The construction of a 22.6 meter tall flagpole that will serve as a marker of Vietnam’s marine sovereignty kicked off on Tuesday on the outpost island of Hon La, off the central province of Quang Binh. The project, worth almost VND1.2 billion (US$55,071), was jointly launched by the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s Central Committee and the Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam.

Society

-- Hoang Duc Hanh, deputy director of the Hanoi Department of Health, told a Tuesday meeting that the capital has considered the option of using an entire hospital to provide treatment for patients testing positive for Middle East Respiratory Syndrome caused by the Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) when necessary. As of Tuesday, the city enforced the surveillance of 4,331 passengers from affected countries.

-- According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, among 10,780 taxis operated by 25 firms, approximately 3,500 vehicles are equipped with tracking devices, commonly known as the “black box.” All taxi operators in the city are to have the device installed on their cabs no later than July 1.

-- According to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, Tropical Storm Kujira has constantly switched direction and is now moving off the southwest direction. Instead of making landfall in the northern province of Quang Ninh’s northeastern area as forecast, the storm is veering to the southern direction, and moving between Quang Ninh and its neighbor, Hai Phong Province. The island district of Co To, off Quang Ninh, experienced medium rain and downpours and rough seas around 7:00 pm on Tuesday, the provincial People’s Committee said.

-- A Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper source said on Tuesday that the Ministry of Public Security’s investigative police agency put into custody Quach Lac and Tran Thanh Hoa, former director and vice director of the National Citizen Bank’s Bac Lieu Province Branch in the Mekong Delta. The arrests were meant to facilitate investigations into the two’s alleged wrongdoings.

Business

-- Increases in the prices of petrol, medicine, and healthcare services caused the consumer price index (CPI) in Ho Chi Minh City to go up by 0.62 percent in June, according to the municipal Department of Statistics.

-- The Department of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs of Binh Thuan Province in the south-central region has announced the province had only granted permits to 25 Chinese experts to work at the construction site of the Vinh Tan 1 Thermoelectricity Plant, located in Tuy Phong District.

-- Cao Duc Phat, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, has proposed that the finance ministry scrap 31 veterinarian quarantine fees currently imposed on chickens and eggs.     

-- The Asia - Pacific Market Units under the Ministry of Trade and Industry announced on Tuesday that China has increased the time to clear customs for merchandise and passengers from Vietnam.

Sports

-- For the first time ever, over 100 Vietnamese athletes and coaches that delivered an excellent performance at the 28th Southeast Asian Games, which closed in Singapore on June 16, were hailed in person by State President Truong Tan Sang during a cozy meeting at the Presidential Palace in Hanoi on Tuesday.

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