Briefs of some of the leading news stories published on Tuesday (December 23) in Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper:
Politics:
-- Vietnam’s State President Truong Tan Sang is on a two-day official visit to Cambodia, starting today, at the invitation of Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni.
-- Vietnam and Cambodia held an international meeting yesterday in Rach Gia City of the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang to review the building of their friendly and peaceful border.
Society:
-- Ho Chi Minh City authorities have called on people not to give money to street beggars since all of them will be given food and accommodation at social centers.
-- Ho Chi Minh City is mulling the development of a system that would employ intelligent electronic tickets on buses.
-- The majority of waste water dumped into the Dong Nai River is untreated, according to Le Van Tuan – general director of the Vietnam Water, Sanitation, and Environment Joint Stock Company. The total waste water discharged into the river, which flows through 11 provinces, is 2.5 million cubic meters a day, only 400,000 cubic meters of which are treated.
-- Police in the northern province of Hai Phong yesterday arrested Singaporean Heng Lian Choo, general director of the Huge Gain Holdings Vietnam Company, for allegedly producing hundreds of thousands of pornographic discs.
-- The collapse of the tunnel at the Da Dang hydropower plant in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong last week resulted from weak soil foundations, an official has said.
-- Two hydrofoils owned by Vina Express are scheduled to resume operations today after an 11-month pause over technical problems.
Business:
-- Transport firms in Vietnam have promised to lower their fares given plummeting world fuel prices.
Sports:
-- Many V-League football clubs such as Hoang Anh Gia Lai, Da Nang, Song Lam Nghe An, Dong Tam Long An and Khanh Hoa will use under-23 players to compete in the 2015 season.