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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 8

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – July 8

Saturday, July 08, 2017, 09:11 GMT+7

Check out the news you should not miss today, July 8

Politics

-- As part of his July 5-8 visit to Germany, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held talks with First Mayor of Hamburg Olaf Scholz on Friday, underlining that his country is ready to further promote its cooperative ties with German state in the fields of science-technology, logistics and shipping-seaports.

-- Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has expressed his sadness and anger at the barbaric and inhumane murders of two Vietnamese citizens murdered in the Philippines by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group, calling on the international community to unite in fighting terrorism, a foreign ministry source said on Friday.

Society

-- A two-hour downpour in Hanoi on Friday night has unsurprisingly inundated many streets in the capital.

-- Police in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday successfully rescued two women held captive and threatened at knifepoint by a man allegedly under the influence of drugs.

-- A 38-year-old man convicted of murder for killing his mother in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum has been put to death by lethal injection, police said on Friday.

-- Bering Ekateria, a 47-year-old Russian woman wanted by Interpol on charges of drug trafficking, was arrested by local police in the south-central Vietnamese province of Khanh Hoa on Friday.

-- Vietnam’s aviation authority on Friday handed a 12-month flight ban on a 29-year-old Vietnamese man for throwing his hand luggage to a ground service attendant at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi in late April.

Business

-- Vietnam's total vehicle industry sales fell by 0.2 percent in June from a year earlier to 24,365 units, the Vietnam Automobile Manufacturers' Association said in a report released on Friday.

-- A two-day festival was kicked off at the famed floating market of Cai Rang in the southern city of Can Tho on Friday, treating tourists and locals to a wide variety of culture-tourism activities.

Lifestyle

-- A photo exhibition entitled “Discovering Vietnam” opened at the Lao Cai Museum in the namesake northern province on Friday, showcasing 100 photos taken by 82 photographers nationwide, as part of the 2017 National Tourism Year – Lao Cai – Northwest Region.

Sports

-- Vietnamese sprinter Quach Thi Lan snatched a silver medal at the women’s 400m event during the ongoing 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in India on Friday, clocking 52.78 seconds.

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