Have a nice Sunday!

Society

-- Speaking during a national webinar on Saturday, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc directed that activities, including approved projects, to change forested land into agricultural land and small-sized hydroelectric plants cease in a bid to stop rampant deforestation.

-- Experts at a seminar on Saturday pointed out human activity, including infrastructure construction, mining and deforestation, has been to blame for the rising number of flash floods and landslides in recent times. 

-- Sixty-three people have been killed while 35 remain missing as of Saturday evening after heavy rains and floods swept through north-central and northern Vietnam, according to the National Committee for Search and Rescue.

-- At a working session on Saturday, the Ministry of National Defense agreed to hand over some of their land plots to assist the Ho Chi Minh City administration’s efforts in relieving traffic congestion on the streets leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Cat Lai Port.  

-- Approximately 10,000 women aged 40 and above will receive free screenings for breast cancer in a campaign launched on Saturday by the Ministry of Health in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Hue, the heart of central Thua Thien-Hue Province. 

-- Da Nang City and Quang Nam Province in the central region have agreed on a public-private partnership project to launch electric train services between the two localities, Nguyen Ngoc Tuan, deputy chair of the Da Nang People’s Committee, disclosed at a conference on Saturday. 

-- Residents of Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai Province, neighboring Ho Chi Minh City, on Saturday erected barriers on a street to block trucks rumbling to and from a quarry in the neighborhood.

Business

-- Ho Chi Minh City’s animal health department has asserted they are set on rejecting pigs from localities which do not wear rings to facilitate origin traceability in a ban to take effect on Monday (October 16) despite complaints from small-scale farmers that the requirement will hurt their business.

Lifestyle

-- One hundred and sixteen delegates from Vietnam are ready for the activities at the 2017 World Festival of Youth and Students, which is taking place in Sochi, Russia, from October 14 to 22.