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Politics

-- Security experts at a two-day conference on maritime and environmental security on the East Vietnam Sea that concluded on Wednesday in northern Vietnam’s Hai Phong City asserted that China is a threat to freedom of navigation on the East Vietnam Sea due to the country’s recent activities.

Society

-- Tropical depression is forecast to hit central Vietnam today as heavy downpour of up to 500 millimeters in rainfall is expected from Thanh Hoa to Quang Ngai provinces.

-- Vietnam was ranked the world’s number eight in terms of research on plant mutation breeding by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Director of Vietnam Atomic Energy Agency Hoang Anh Tuan said in a conference on socio-economic applications of atomic energy in Hanoi on Thursday.

-- Scores of local residents in the southern beach city of Vung Tau took to the street on Thursday with dead fish laid out on the road to voice concern on mass fish deaths across fish farms in the area, the cause of which has yet to be identified.

-- A number of ATM cards issued by Vietcombank were locked by the bank on Thursday over worries of stolen bank account information after some ATMs were found to be attached with alien devices, a senior official at Vietcombank told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper the same day.

-- More than 26,000 residents along the Doi Canal in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City will be relocated to make place for a canal renovation project expected to improve the city’s appeal and drainage.

Business

-- Ho Chi Minh City will be home to 500,000 businesses by 2020, making up half of the total number of businesses in Vietnam by the time, the municipal deputy chairman Tran Vinh Tuyen said in a ceremony celebrating the country’s National Businesspeople Day on Thursday.

Sports

-- Vietnam’s under-19 national soccer team will play its opener match at the 2016 AFC Championship U19 Final in Bahrain against North Korea at 8:30 pm today, October 14.

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