Here are the news stories you should not miss today, November 17:
Politics
-- The first Q&A session at a Thursday meeting of Vietnam’s lawmaking National Assembly focused on problems regarding the country’s public debts and bad debts.
Society
-- A man in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has been fined VND25 million (US$1,105) for chopping down a tree on the sidewalk in front of his company headquarters.
-- The People’s Court in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak on Thursday sentenced 22-year-old Nguyen Minh Cuong to 15 years in prison for raping two young girls, aged eight and nine.
-- A tropical depression is forecast to enter the East Vietnam Sea on Friday and potentially develop into a storm in the next days, the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting reported.
-- The Forest Protection Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has ordered authorities in the northern provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai to investigate the destruction of local natural forest, which had been reported in recent exposés by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper.
-- The second branch of the flyover at Nguyen Thai Son Roundabout in Go Vap District, Ho Chi Minh City, which connects Nguyen Kiem and Hoang Minh Giam Streets, was overloaded with vehicles on Thursday, the first day after its inauguration.
-- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has supported goods and equipments worth a total of $175,000 for victims of Typhoon Damrey in Vietnam.
-- Tran Vinh Tuyen, vice-chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, has ordered a comprehensive inspection of local parking lots which operate without a license and overcharge customers.
Business
-- Most budget flight tickets during next year’s Lunar New Year holiday, which falls on February, have been sold out while the price of standard tickets has begun increasing.
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