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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 15

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 15

Monday, December 15, 2014, 08:30 GMT+7

Here are the leading Vietnamese news stories in brief for today, December 15, 2014.

Politics

-- The schools for southern students in northern Vietnam are among the most successful educational models in the country, State President Truong Tan Sang remarked at a grand ceremony to mark the 60th anniversary of the schools in Hanoi on Sunday.

-- Promoting gender equality in the political field will create more opportunities for women to raise their voice in various spheres, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong underlined at a workshop held in the Mekong Delta province of Bac Lieu on Sunday.

Society

-- A 71-year-old Vietnamese-Australian woman was caught by customs at the Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport carrying 3kg of drugs disguised as soaps prior to her flight to Sydney on Sunday.

- The administration of the Chinese city of Pingxiang has asked the Vietnamese ministries of transport and trade to allow 1,000 cars carrying 1,500 passengers to enter Vietnam via the border in the northern province of Lang Son.

Business

-- The “Online Fever” week, held from Dec 5 to 12 to promote e-commerce sales, concluded last weekend with ten participating businesses reporting more than 210,000 orders.

-- Chinese products no longer dominate the Christmas decoration market in Vietnam this year as many Vietnamese businesses are able to win over customers with their quality products.

-- Vietnam spent VND693 trillion (US$33.13 billion) on paying foreign debts in 2013, the Ministry of Finance said in its third public debt bulletin.

-- Smugglers are actively transporting illicit products from China to the northern province of Lang Son these days to embrace the year-end market and the Tet (Vietnam’s Lunar New Year) holidays.

-- Vietnamese no-frills carrier VietJet Air inaugurated Saturday the service connecting Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) and Taipei (Taiwan).

-- The administration of the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang is expected to pull the plug on a sluggish $628.7 million paper mill project.

Lifestyle

-- Miss South Africa Rolene Strauss was winner of the 2014 Miss World pageant after the finale in London on Sunday. Vietnamese representative Nguyen Thi Loan was among the top 25.

Sports

-- There were no suspicious betting patterns in any of the pre-match or live betting markets regarding the semi second leg game between Vietnam and Malaysia in the AFF Suzuki Cup 2014, an AFF-partnered sports and betting-related data service provider said last weekend.

-- Nearly a dozen cyclists were severely injured as they crashed into a dog trying to cross the street en route from Hanoi to Bac Kan Province during the tenth round of the National Defense Cup Tournament on Sunday.

-- Robbie Fowler, the legendary striker of English Premier League side Liverpool, is scheduled to arrive in Vietnam at the invitation of a local dairy producer on Tuesday.

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