Read what is in the news today, January 31:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of Public Security has declared that the organization known as the “Provisional National Government of Vietnam," which is run by a group of overseas Vietnamese Americans with its headquarters in California, is a terrorist group.

Society

­-- The administration of Quang Nam Province in central Vietnam has removed Le Phuoc Hoai Bao from his position as director of the provincial Department of Planning and Investment due to his many violations of Party principles.

-- The administration of Da Nang City in central Vietnam is looking to set up technical barriers to limit the mushrooming of new hotels and accommodation services in the city, which has seen around 6,000 rooms added every year on average.

-- The administration of Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam has said it would demand a full report on a recent incident involving a local policeman who named and shamed sex workers and their customers in public, a clip of which has gone viral on Facebook.

-- Dan Hauer, a U.S. national living in Hanoi, has pledged to remove his online comments that were offensive toward late Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap and to make an apology to the war hero’s family following a meeting on Tuesday with Vietnam’s Ministry of Information and Communications.

Business

-- Economic experts are worried that foreign direct investment (FDI) into Vietnam will shrink as a tax cut introduced by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration at the start of 2018 has lowered corporate tax rates from 35 percent to 21 percent.

-- Over 10,000 taxi drivers of Vinasun and Mai Linh taxi companies in Vietnam quit their job in 2017 due to growing competition from ride-hailing services Grab and Uber, according to statistics from the Vietnam Social Security.

Lifestyle

-- Family drama movie ‘O Day Co Nang’ (Here Comes The Sun) will be the only representative from Vietnam to compete at the 2018 Seoul Guru International Kids Film Festival, which will take place between May 10 and 17 in South Korea.

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