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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – May 19

Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – May 19

Sunday, May 19, 2019, 09:02 GMT+7
Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – May 19
A woman and her two children protect themselves from the scorching heat along Lang Ha Street in Hanoi on May 18, 2019. Photo: Nam Tran / Tuoi Tre

Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s 12th-tenure Party Central Committee held the concluding session of its three-day 10th plenum in Hanoi on Saturday morning under the chair of Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong.

Society

-- Four female suspects involved in a ‘corpse-in-concrete’ murder case in southern Binh Duong Province on Sunday admitted to killing two men following their arrest on Friday night.

-- The current heatwave in northern and central Vietnamese provinces reaches its peak on Saturday and Sunday, raising temperatures to up to 41 degrees Celsius, the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting reported.

-- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has ordered competent authorities to examine water quality in the La Nga River, located in the southern province of Dong Nai, after over 330 metric tons of fish raised by local farmers had recently died en masse.

-- A sleeper bus of Futa Bus Lines rear-ended a trailer truck in Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City on early Saturday morning, killing the female conductor of the passenger bus.

-- Two workers were killed and three others injured after a fire broke out at a coal mine in the northern province of Quang Ninh on Saturday morning, the provincial administration confirmed on the same day.

-- Three fishermen from the south-central province of Phu Yen have recently caught three large tuna weighing 200 to 376 kilograms. The fish are considered a rare catch as they often weigh less than 100 kilograms, according to local fishers.

Business

-- The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang on Saturday organized a ceremony to mark the export of another mango batch to the United States, raising the total volume of exported mangoes to 12.8 metric tons since the fruit was officially allowed to enter the U.S. market on April 18.

-- Vietnamese startup company Abivin has claimed a US$1 million cash prize after being crowned the winner of Startup World Cup 2019, an international competition whose participants come from over 40 countries and territories.

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