Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – Apr 10
Thursday, April 10, 2014, 08:52 GMT+7
Politics
-- Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Vasilev Oresharski left the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Wednesday, concluding his official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Tan Dung.
-- A Vietnamese delegation attended a Defense Officials’ Dialogue between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the European Union that closed Wednesday in Brussels, Belgium.
Society
-- Ho Chi Minh City police fined a woman VND500,000-1,000,000 (US$24-48) on Wednesday for falsely reporting that she had been drugged and had VND900 million (US$42,800) stolen while she was aboard a Jetstar Pacific airplane that landed at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in the city a day earlier.
-- A fire consumed 35 stalls at a market and 37 rooms of a dorm for workers nearby on Wednesday in the southern province of Long An.
Business
-- Foreign-owned businesses in Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai Province, and Binh Duong Province tended to considerably increase the amount of capital poured into manufacturing activities in the first three months of this year, according to statistics.
-- Distributors have provided many misleading advertisements for dietary supplements to consumers in Vietnam, the Ministry of Industry and Trade said recently in a report.
Lifestyle
-- Vietnam commemorated the Hung Kings, country founders, on Wednesday (the 10th day of the third month in the lunar calendar).
Sports
-- Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has directed the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism to cooperate with other relevant agencies to urgently prepare a comprehensive plan for the organization of the 2019 Asian Games. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung demanded last week that such a plan be submitted to him this week amid opposition by the people and government officials to Vietnam hosting this grand and costly event.
-- Vietnamese football club Hanoi T&T defeated Maldivian rivals Maziya Sports & Recreation 2-1 on the latter’s home soil on Wednesday to secure a spot in the round of 16 at the 2014 AFC Cup.
