Briefs on some of leading news stories published on Tuesday (April 22) in Tuoi Tre newspaper:

Politics:

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has agreed with the Ministry of Justice on the modification of Vietnam’s Law on Citizenship. One of the changes would be extending the deadline for overseas Vietnamese who have not lost their Vietnamese nationality to register to retain it till July 1, 2019 instead of July 1, 2014.

Society:

-- The hot and muggy weather hitting southern Vietnam may last until the end of Tuesday before it gradually relieves since it may rain in several locations, according to local forecasters.

-- A woman kidnapped Monday a three-month-old infant from Buu Tri Pagoda in Can Tho City in the Mekong Delta.

-- Ho Chi Minh City authorities have proposed the Ministry of Planning and Investment approve a shortlist of road construction projects to be sponsored by the World Bank from 2015 to 2018. Loans from the World Bank are estimated at about US$1.67 billion.

-- A citizen will be granted permanent residency in centrally-managed cities if he/she has legal housing and continually resided in those localities for least two years, according to a government decree.

-- People in Ho Chi Minh City and neighboring provinces have flocked to Pasteur Institute in the city for vaccination against measles after the disease has claimed the lives of over a hundred victims since it recurred in Vietnam late last year.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport will launch a mass campaign to check drunk drivers starting April 25.

-- Four people drowned after a boat capsized on Vam Co Dong River in the southern province of Tay Ninh on Monday.

Business:

-- Vietnam-based Doosan Vina Company yesterday exported to Saudi Arabia its first equipment to turn seawater into fresh water. The equipment complex covering an area of 143m by 34.4m can produce 95 million liters of fresh water from seawater a day.

-- Representatives of 30 Japanese firms attended a conference on Monday to seek business opportunities in agriculture in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam.

-- The operator of Tan Son Nhat Airport put into operation a new domestic terminal able to handle five million people a year on Monday. The new facility will be used for VietJet Air and Jetstar Pacific passengers.

-- The collection of corporate income tax of the FDI sector in Vietnam has increased 49 percent over the same period last year.

Lifestyle:

-- Two cultural construction sites in Bac Lieu Province in the Mekong Delta have been included in the Vietnam Book of Records. They include the Cao Van Lau Theater constructed in the shape of three palm-leaf conical hats, which is certified to be the largest of its kind in Vietnam, and a Vietnamese two-chord guitar model, also the biggest in the country.