Enjoy your breakfast while reading this summary of important news items:

Business:

-- So far this year, three shipments of vegetables exported from Vietnam have been found to be contaminated with bacteria, according to the Directorate-General for Health and Consumers (DG SANCO). DG SANCO has warned that it will prohibit exports of vegetable from Vietnam if two more similar cases are discovered.

Society:

-- Several representatives of General Consulates in Ho Chi Minh City have signed a petition filed by the Honorary Consul General of Finland, Phung Anh Tuan, to call for a number of measures to help conserve a portion of the Saigon Tax Trade Center, which is scheduled to be torn down to make room for a new 40-story building and for the construction of part of a metro line station.

-- Major Le Manh Nam, a former vice police chief of Gia Nghia district in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, has been arrested for his involvement in the death of a civilian at a local police station. Colonel Ngo Dinh Sau, vice director of Dak Lak’s Police Department, said on Tuesday that Nam has been charged with “irresponsibility causing serious consequences”.

-- As of Wednesday morning, 18 Vietnamese sailors on Vietnamese-flagged oil tanker Sunrise-689 that vanished in Singaporean waters remained missing, while authorities in Vietnam have called on other countries to help search for the ill-fated ship.

Lifestyle

-- Orchestra Fribourg from Switzerland will perform a concert at the Tuoi Tre (Youth) Theatre in Hanoi on October 8.

Politics:

-- Japan and ASEAN have agreed to promote bilateral cooperation and their partnerships with other countries in order to ensure peace and stability in the East Sea and East China Sea, Vietnam’s Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh stated at the sixth ASEAN-Japan Deputy Ministers’ Meeting, which began in Yokohama, Japan on Tuesday. Vinh told the Vietnam News Agency that Vietnam and Japan agreed that all parties should implement measures to prevent challenging situations from turning into military confrontations.

-- Vietnam always gives highest priority to fostering its special ties with Laos and is willing to share socio-economic development experience with the Southeast Asian neighbor, said Vietnam’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nguyen Xuan Phuc while meeting with his Lao counterpart, Bunpon Buttavong, in Hanoi on Tuesday.