Check out news you should not miss today, November 10:
Politics
-- Vietnam’s President Tran Dai Quang and Chile’s President Michelle Bachelet Jeria on Thursday met with local media in Hanoi, where they shared that they had discussed measures to enhance the bilateral comprehensive cooperation in politics, diplomacy, economics, trade and investment during their earlier talks in the Vietnamese capital.
-- Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a busy Thursday in Ho Chi Minh City, where he met with the city’s leaders, talked with students at Ton Duc Thang University, had a cup of coffee on the sidewalk, and jogged along the Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal.
Society
-- Downpours and floods from storm Damrey have caused landslides at nearly 300 places in the central province of Quang Nam, according to the province’s statistics.
-- Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Thursday handed over relief gifts to 150 households in the central province of Quang Nam’s Bac Tra My District, one of the places to be hit hardest by storm Damrey.
-- Environmental police in the southern province of Dong Nai on Thursday caught a local facility red-handed preparing to process tiger bone glue from a dead tiger weighing 200kg.
-- The People’s Committee of the Central Highlands Province of Dak Lak has recently permitted a company to build a solar power plant with a capacity of 50MW in the border commune of Ea Sup.
Business
-- A draft plan on amended tax management laws has raised concerns over a proposal on imposing value added tax and personal income tax on each online deal worth from VND1 million (US$$44). Experts said the amount is too heavy while tax officials also thought it would be hard to implement the proposal because of the complexity of this kind of business.
Lifestyle
-- The Japanese Noh play troupe Kin no Tokage will perform the play “Lady Aoi” in Hanoi on November 11 and 12. On Thursday, ten artists from the play met with artists at the Vietnam Tuồng Theater.
-- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh on Thursday morning joined representatives of APEC’s 21 member economies to inaugurate the APEC statue garden in the central city of Da Nang, which features works from the APEC members.