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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – August 10

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – August 10

Wednesday, August 10, 2016, 08:30 GMT+7

Check out what is in the news today:

Politics

-- Shimpei Ara, director of the International Operations Division under the Japanese Ministry of Defense, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper in an exclusive interview that the East Asian nation will assist Vietnam in enhancing its national defense capacity based on the latter’s needs and requirements.

Society

-- Vietnamese juridical agencies have reached an official conclusion that an 80-year-old man from the northern Vietnamese province of Bac Ninh who has lived the last 43 years as a convicted murderer has suffered miscarriage of justice.

-- Traffic police in Hanoi said on Tuesday they had fined several motorcyclists during the day for being fixated on their smartphones catching Pokémon in the phenomenal mobile game Pokémon GO, which has been available in Vietnam since Saturday last week, while they were driving.

-- The National Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting Center on Tuesday warned of flash floods and downpours in the northern and north-central regions, particularly mountainous areas, on Wednesday evening and Thursday.

-- Nine seafarers on a Vietnamese freighter were rescued by the Zone 3 Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Center (Vung Tau MRCC) on Tuesday, while a search is ongoing for the other two missing crewmen. The vessel sank after colliding with a foreign ship in waters over 110 nautical miles from Vung Tau City in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Monday night.

Business

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan meant to further boost e-commerce in Vietnam, which sets goals of achieving up to US$10 billion in e-commerce revenue and engaging 30 percent of the country’s population in online shopping by 2020.

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Tuesday chaired a national conference held in Hoi An City, home to the UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town, in the central province of Quang Nam to address issues confronting the local tourism industry over recent times, including the illegal operations of Chinese tour guides in several resort cities.

-- Though strongly forbidden in the whole of Vietnam, farming and trading of ‘duong dua’ (coconut pest worms), which makes a delicacy that appeals only to brave eaters and repels most diners, remain rampant across the Mekong Delta.

Lifestyle

-- The U.S. cable news channel CNN has named Ho Chi Minh City among the world's 23 most alluring metropolises in terms of street food.

Education

-- Representatives of Tuoi Tre, GreenFeed Vietnam Co. and local authorities on Tuesday jointly handed away 72 scholarships and awards to high-performing students born to farmers in Tien Phuoc District, Quang Nam Province.

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