Check out news you should not miss on Tuoi Tre News today, September 1:

Politics

-- Vietnam has reached remarkable achievements during the past years thanks to its own effort and help from international friends, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said as he and his wife hosted a banquet for ambassadors and head of international organizations in Vietnam and their spouses in Hanoi on Thursday, on the occasion of the 72nd National Day (September 2).

-- Vietnam is deeply concerned about China’s announcement of holding a military drill in the waters off the mouth of the Gulf of Tonkin, said foreign ministry’s spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang on Thursday. 

-- A ten-day exhibition of nearly 400 exhibits and documents featuring the history of Vietnam’s People's Public Security on Thursday kicked off in the central city of Da Nang.

Society

-- Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transportation has been requested to pilot installing drinkable tap water booths at several public places in the city’s downtown area.

 -- Ho Chi Minh City will name and shame pork retailers who sell products of unknown origin on public media as part of a program to tighten meat management in the city, the municipal deputy chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen requested Thursday.

-- The southern province of Dong Nai has had more than 3,300 dengue fever cases, including three deaths, in the first eight months of this year.

Business

-- Around 300 foreign enterprises are expected come and seek cooperation opportunities with Vietnam within the framework of the 2017 International Travel Expo to be held in Ho Chi Minh City from September 7 to 9, according to the municipal tourism department.

-- The Japan International Cooperation Agency on Thursday announced it has signed a 24.7 billion yen (US$224 million) ODA loan agreement with Vietnamese government to build a drainage and sewage system for the southern city of Bien Hoa.

Education

-- French teacher Florian Ziegler has developed BlaBla Language Exchange, an English learning group he founded in Hanoi last year with initial 30 members, into a language studying community which has spread its wing to many countries including France, Germany, Italia, Belgium, the Philippines and China.

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