Have a nice Sunday!

Politics

-- Sixty-nine officials will take office as the result of the election of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee’s Executive Board leadership for the upcoming tenure was announced on Saturday.

Society

-- The Ministry of Health, in coordination with the United Nations Population Fund in Vietnam, on Saturday launched a campaign to step up efforts to avert people’s selection of fetus gender and birth gender imbalance.

-- The management of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City has just told competent agencies that a ditch system meant for sewage in Tan Binh District should be ridded of trash. Otherwise, the airport would close as the generator station of its control tower has sustained damage due to inundation.

-- A new automatic operation system has been functional at Ankroet Hydropower Plant, the country’s first of its kind, located in a valley in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, since Saturday, which marks the plant’s 70^th founding anniversary.

Business

-- Several experts and enterprise owners are hopeful about a revival of the Vietnamese automobile support industry that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which aims to liberalize commerce in 40 percent of the world's economy and was struck by 12 nations in the U.S. on October 5, is expected to bring about.

-- An official dispatch that the Plant Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has sent to customs offices stipulates that from now on businesses will be spared quarantine certification for their exported plant products.

Lifestyle

-- An exhibition featuring works by respected Vietnamese artists, particularly those who have carved out a successful career in France, is slated to run from Monday to Friday in Hanoi.