Check out news you should not miss today, September 8, on Tuoi Tre News:

Politics

-- Vietnam and South Africa will encourage and create favorable conditions for the strengthening of people-to-people exchanges to foster solidarity and mutual understanding, Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh Minh and South Africa's Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said during their Thursday meeting in Hanoi.

-- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Thursday concluded his two-day state visit to Vietnam after meetings with Vietnamese government senior officials and attending the Vietnam-Egypt business forum.

Society

-- Vietnam spends around US$700 million on importing more than 100,000 tons of pesticides and materials on an annual basis, said Hoang Trung, head of the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, adding that such import volume is normal.

-- Three elementary students in the north-central province of Nghe An on Wednesday committed suicide by eating toxic leaves after their teacher discovered that they took some learning tools from other classes. One of the children was pronounced dead later.

-- Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has ordered an inspection on the licensing process for VN Pharma’s medicine import and circulation registration. The Vietnamese pharmaceutical company has been accused of importing substandard cancer medicine whose origin was unknown.

Business

-- National carrier Vietnam Airlines and budget carrier Vietjet are offering thousands of promotion tickets costing from VND0 to VND699,000 ($30) for domestic and international flights for visitors from September 7 to 9  at the International Travel Expo held in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Vietnam’s Vingroup and German industrial manufacturing conglomerate Siemens on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding in Hanoi on technology cooperating for car manufacturing, apartment and house development, and Vinmec medical system development.

Lifestyle

-- Most of the experts who attended a Thursday seminar in Hanoi discussing the management of decades-old Do Son Buffalo Fighting Festival in the northern city of Hai Phong agreed upon not eliminating the event, despite public opposition for its brutality.

-- Taiwan is putting a lot of effort for the target of attracting one million Vietnamese tourists a year, said Taiwan’s tourism senior officials during a meeting with local press in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday.

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