Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, July 16.
Politics
-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Friday met with different Asian and European leaders on the sidelines of the 11th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) Summit in Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
-- The Pacific Partnership program 2016 reached the Vietnamese stop in the central city of Da Nang on Friday, with the U.S. hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) and Japanese naval ship JSDS Shimokita (LST-4002) among the participants.
Society
-- Several coffee grounding facilities in Binh Tan and Binh Chanh districts in Ho Chi Minh City were found on Friday producing coffee from soybean, with fish sauce added to “enhance their flavors.”
-- The Vietnamese unit of Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Group in the north-central province of Ha Tinh said on Friday it is the local urban environment company it had contracted to treat its wastes to blame for the secret burial of 100 metric tons of coking wastes that was unearthed last week.
Business
-- Vietnam raked in nearly $17 billion from mobile phone exports in the first half of this year, accounting for nearly 20.7 percent of the total turnovers, and up 16 percent from a year earlier, the latest customs data show.
-- The Vietnamese Ministry of Planning and Investment has announced a draft plan to form a special committee to oversee the operations of all state-run companies, which are currently under the management of different ministries.
-- Many Chinese travel firms have sold packages to Vietnam at zero costs, and rip off the tourists to recoup the losses once they are already in the country.
Lifestyle
-- The family of late composer Van Cao, author of Vietnam’s national anthem Tien Quan Ca, has ‘donated’ the copyrighted song to the state during a ceremony in Hanoi on Friday. The late author in return was posthumously granted the Ho Chi Minh Prize, an honorary award given by the government of Vietnam in recognition of cultural and/or scientific achievement.
Sports
-- Vietnam targets to grab at least one medal at the upcoming Rio 2016, with weightlifter Thach Kim Tuan carrying the biggest hope, according to the Vietnam Olympic Committee.
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