Check out the news you should not miss today, April 29

Politics

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited the Vietnamese Embassy in the Philippines on Friday, during his stay in Manila to attend the 30th ASEAN Summit, urging the staff there to work harder to deepen the strategic partnership between the two countries.

-- Vietnam attaches importance to developing ties with France and Europe, Deputy Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son told visiting Emmanuel Lenain, Director for Asia and Oceania at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development, in Hanoi on Friday.

Society

-- As many as 62 new bus routes are set for launch in Hanoi by 2020 to  meet the local demand and reduce traffic jams, totaling the number of bus service to 150, the municipal transport department announced on Friday.

-- All routes leading to Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City were packed with vehicles on Friday, as salaried workers in Vietnam enter a long holiday, celebrating Reunification Day (April 30) and Labor Day (May 1).

-- Police in the southern province of Binh Duong has detained a 40-year-old local man for assaulting his 85-year-old father.

-- The Ministry of Health has proposed banning the sale of beer and alcoholic drinks at karaoke parlors.

-- A man allegedly stole a parked Range Rover and crashed a number of motorbikes during its flee in Hanoi on Friday night before being captured by police.

Business

-- Moody's has changed the outlook on Vietnam's ratings to positive from stable, based on expectations that strong foreign direct investment inflows will continue to diversify the Southeast Asian economy.

-- A 40-MW wind mill, developed by Singapore’s The Blue Circle and its Vietnamese partner TSV at a total cost of US$80 million, turned the first sod in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan on Friday.

-- Vietnam’s foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first four months of this year rose 40.5 percent year on year to $4.88 billion with 734 new projects, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

Lifestyle

-- Ho Chi Minh City has plans to set up a ‘sleepless tourism city’ by allowing several services to stay open past midnight.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Children’s House reopened on Friday after a three-year renovation that gave the facility, where local kids can learn and have fun, a modern facelift.

Sports

-- The 2017 Asian Volleyball Confederation Women’s Beach Volleyball Tour kicked off in the southern city of Can Tho on Friday, running until May 1 with 11 teams.

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