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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 31

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 31

Friday, July 31, 2015, 08:30 GMT+7

What you need to know in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Border guard forces in the northern Vietnamese province Lao Cai and Honghe County of Yunnan Province in China on Thursday took part in a joint anti-terrorism drill – The Red River No.1 2015 – for a virtual scenario in which many terrorists rushed to the border area in Yunnan’s Hekou District for illegal entry into Vietnam after carrying out terror attacks in China.

-- UK Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday left Ho Chi Minh City, concluding his two-day official visit to Vietnam. During the visit, PM Cameron held talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung and met with Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and State President Truong Tan Sang in Hanoi. The British premier also met with Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan, and joined the Vietnam-UK Business Forum in the city.

Society

-- Only 280 tourists out of some 1,500 stranded on Co To Island in the northern province of Quang Ninh were successfully transported to the mainland by a naval vessel on Thursday, as the plan to bring all of them back to shore was ruined by bad weather, according to Chairman of the People's Committee of Co To Island District Hoang Ba Nam. The naval ship will transport the remaining 1,200 tourists to the mainland on Friday if the weather gets better.

-- The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family of the Republic of Korea on Thursday announced that it will continue to run a vocational training and skill development program for Vietnamese women, an official development assistance-funded project worth US$552,000 the South Korean government has provided for developing countries, including Vietnam, for 2015. The ministry has helped Vietnam establish three career and capacity development centers in the northern province of Thai Binh, the central province of Quang Nam and the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho since 2011.

Business

-- Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Tat Thanh Cang held a working session on Thursday with a visiting UK business delegation who came to seek opportunities for cooperation in infrastructure development, including a deep-water seaport and the Thu Thiem residential area.

-- JFE Steel, Japan's second-biggest steelmaker, has announced it will invest $220 million in a steelworks being constructed by Formosa Plastics Group (Taiwan) in the central province of Ha Tinh.

-- Private capital is being sought to upgrade and build marine, waterway and railway transport systems in Vietnam following plans to release a list of 41 projects for marine infrastructural development from 2015 to 2020 at a cost of $2 billion, according to the Ministry of Transport's Marine Department. The ministry also plans to approve 45 Build-Operate-Transfer projects from 2015 to 2020, with $500 million in costs needed.

Sports

-- Around 800 local and international runners from 45 countries will join the Vietnam Mountain Marathon 2015 that has challenging climbs and exhilarating descents on September 26-27. The event, organized by Topas Travel since 2013, is one of the most difficult trail marathons in the world.

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