Check out the news you should not miss today, June 29:Politics -- President Tran Dai Quang and a delegation of high-level officials arrived in Moscow on Wednesday afternoon, starting a four-day official visit to Russia at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Society -- Ho Chi Minh City is struggling to find VND162,000 billion (US$7.14 billion) in investment for 32 dormant projects under a plan to develop the city’s transportation by 2020. -- A visitor has written a letter to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper to complain about her experience in which she had to pay VND50,000 (US$2.2) for each of the little turtles her child released into the ocean at Con Dao National Park on Con Dao Island, off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau. -- Ho Chi Minh City currently has 339 dengue fever cases reported amid an increase of patients during the last three weeks. -- Ninety percent of the participants in a survey on 15,000 people in 30 districts in Hanoi agreed to a plan to ban motorbikes in the capital by 2030, police said. -- A viral video has caused outrage over the Internet as it shows a group of thieves using self-made electrified harpoon guns to steal dogs from a house in Cu Chi District, Ho Chi Minh City at night, and even recklessly threatened to attack the dog owners when he found out what they were doing. -- Concerns have been raised over a decision by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment after it allowed an electricity company to dump nearly 1 million cubic meters of mud and sand into the sea in Vinh Tan Commune, Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan Province.Lifestyle -- English painter Bridget March has opened her gallery in the central tourism city of Hoi An, where she showcases her artwork about Vietnam after nearly five years living in and falling in love with the country. -- Ho Chi Minh City-based Tre Publishing House has gifted 16 bookcases and 5,000 e-books to the Vietnamese community in Taiwan in a bid to preserve Vietnamese culture.
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Slimming down state apparatus should be a revolution in Vietnam
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