Check out what is in the news today!Society -- The deputy head of Sa Pa District People’s Committee in the northern Vietnamese province of Lao Cai said on Tuesday that they had dispatched more than 100 people and expanded the search area for Aiden Webb, a 23-year-old from Cambridge, the UK. Aiden’s relatives, including his father, who had flown over to the locale, home to beloved town Sa Pa, have offered a reward of VND100 million (US$4,445) to those who first spotted the young man. The Briton has gone missing since being last seen last week in Fansipan Mountain, the highest peak in Indochina. -- A ceiling patch at the examination quarter of the Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics in Hanoi came off on Tuesday, sending plaster tumbling down a child patient, slightly injuring the baby. -- At a conference organized on Tuesday in Hanoi, the Ministry of Information and Communications announced the hotline number 112, meant to receive distress information and facilitate search and rescue efforts in emergency or disaster situations on a nationwide scale. -- Police in Long Ho District in the Mekong Delta province of Vinh Long have arrested a suspect who set fire and caused burns to a 47-year-old police officer when he was asleep at home early Tuesday. -- Police in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Tuesday started legal proceedings against two suspects for beating a 13-year-old girl to death on Saturday last week after robbing her and attempting to rape her.Business -- Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue urged at a seminar organized in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday that a capital market for start-ups, small and medium businesses be established in two or three years. -- The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Tuesday announced that all Vietnamese rice exports to China will undergo stricter quality checks conducted by Chinese agencies. -- Bui Hong Quy, chief of the People’s Committee Office in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, has confirmed that they had dispatched a team to the Republic of Korea for a joint project to build a solar power plant at an estimated cost of US$0.6-1 billion. The provincial administration had also reached an agreement with a local firm and another Korean company on the construction of another solar electricity plant, projected to cost $200 million. Lifestyle -- The 2016 Chiec Thia Vang (Golden Spoon) contest, organized annually for chefs working in restaurants across Vietnam, kicked off in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.Sports -- Dustin Ha, a 12-year-old American boy of Vietnamese origin, has been named champion in both the U-14 single and double categories at a U.S. tennis tournament for juniors.
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