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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 15

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 15

Tuesday, July 15, 2014, 07:55 GMT+7

Briefs on some of the leading news stories published on Tuesday (July 15) in Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper:

Politics:

-- Vietnamese Foreign Affairs Minister Pham Binh Minh yesterday received Evan Medeiros, representative of the U.S. President, who is on a visit to Vietnam. The visit is made to celebrate a year of establishing the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership.

-- Vietnam’s State President Truong Tan Sang yesterday warmly received 80 veterans of the Division 356, who joined a battle in 1984 against Chinese invaders in Vi Xuyen District of the border province of Ha Giang.

Society:

-- Typhoon Rammasun is strengthening and heading toward the northern part of Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago and the northern mainland of Vietnam, according to the Central Hydrometeorology Center.

-- Ho Chi Minh City will invest VND165 billion (US$7.9 million) in upgrading Nguyen Hue Street in District 1 and dredging the Soai Rap River.

-- The government has assigned the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids, and Social Affairs to build a database on the identification and relatives of martyrs. The project will be piloted in five provinces of Hau Giang, Ninh Thuan, Hoa Binh, Ha Tinh, and Ha Giang before being implemented nationwide.

-- The operator of Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City has announced that the prices of food and drinks sold in restaurants at the airport will be lowered, starting July 17.

-- The northern province of Thanh Hoa had 2,029 people bitten by dogs during the first six months of this year. Two of them died of rabies. The province has a large herd of domestic dogs kept at large and without being vaccinated.

Business:

-- Traditional lanterns from Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien-Hue have been exported to South Korea, Singapore, the U.S., Switzerland, and Japan.

Lifestyle:

-- A new cinema, CGV Vung Tau Lam Son Square, was opened on July 12 in the southern city of Vung Tau with five projection rooms.

Education:

-- A golf tournament will be held on July 19 at Long Thanh Golf Course in the southern province of Dong Nai to raise funds for a scholarship fund managed by Tuoi Tre.

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