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More Swing for the Kids scholarships go out to excellent students in Hung Yen province By By Anh Duc 11:02 | 17/08/2017 In the lead-up to the 2017-2018 school year, Vietnam Investment Review, the press agency of the Ministry of Planning and Investment, has ... Swing for the Kids 2017 hands out 160 scholarships By By Duc Hanh 08:00 | 19/05/2017 Vietnam Investment Review honours 160 disadvantaged students who produced stellar results in the previous academic year with scholarships worth VND80 ... Swing for the Kids 2017 a fun and meaningful competition By By Hong Anh 18:39 | 22/04/2017 The 11th Swing for the Kids charity golf tournament, co-organised by the Ministry of Planning and Investment’s Foreign Investment Agency, Vietnam Investment ... VIR's Swing for the Kids 2017 teed off By By … [Read more...] about Society, The latest news about Society

Check out the news you should not miss today, December 23 Politics-- President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee Tran Thanh Man visited and extended Christmas greetings to Catholic and Protestant dignitaries and followers in southern localities on Friday.-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe expressed their delight at the robust growth of Vietnam – Japan relations across all sectors in 2017 during a talk on the phone on Friday. Society-- Japan will provide Vietnam with non-refundable aid totaling nearly $400,000 for five health care and educational projects, according to contracts signed on Friday by the Japanese Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City-- Three people have been held by police in the northern province of Hai Duong for illegally transporting two kilograms of drugs and 4,000 methamphetamine pills, officers said on Friday.-- A high-level court in the northern province of Ha Nam on Friday upheld the … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 23

Here are the news stories you should not miss today: Politics-- State President and General Secretary of the Lao Party Bounnhang Vorachith left the north-central province of Nghe An on Thursday and concluded his official friendly visit to Vietnam from December 19-21. Society-- Typhoon Kai-Tak weakened into a tropical depression on Friday morning on its way towards Malaysia, while another storm, named Tembin, was formed in southern Philippines and was forecast to travel westward in the next 24-hour period.-- Police in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang on Thursday evening carried out a search at the house of Phan Van Anh Vu, a local tycoon who owns multiple companies and many high-value land plots, most of which were originally public properties.-- A total of 133 green trees along the sidewalks of Ton Duc Thang Street will be removed to make space for the construction of the Thu Thiem 2 Bridge connecting District 1 and District 2.-- Two people were killed after a passenger bus … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 22

Read what is in the news today, December 21: Society -- The latest investigative reports by Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper have uncovered multiple tricks employed by Chinese-run clinics in Ho Chi Minh City to force patients to pay a fortune for substandard treatment from unqualified doctors. -- Typhoon Kai-Tak, the 15th storm to hit Vietnam this year, is forecast to be 310 kilometers southeast of Con Dao Islands off the coast of southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province this morning, with waves measuring up to eight meters high. -- Nine former officials have been prosecuted for their wrongdoings in a project to construct a water pipeline in Hanoi between 2004 and 2009, which led to the finished pipeline experiencing 18 ruptures over its course of use since. -- The owner of a 200-kilogram female moon bear that was raised in captivity by a household in southern Vietnam’s Dong Nai Province has given up the animal voluntarily to authorities so the bear could be rehabilitated … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 21

Here are the news stories you should not miss today, December 19: Society -- During a conference in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on Monday, Vietnam’s Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The called on competent authorities and experts to come up with new policies and projects to leverage the potential for waterway transportation in the region.-- Tropical storm Kai-Tak, the 15th to hit Vietnam this year, was located 430 kilometers southeast of the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on Monday evening, packing winds at 60 to 75km per hour. It was forecast to travel southwestward.-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has ordered competent agencies to carry out more patrols and sternly deal with violations of noise regulations in the metropolis.-- Hoang Thi Hong Diem, 32, has claimed she had snatched a knife from her husband and chop his head off after being threatened by the man during an argument at their tenanted house in the southern province of Binh Duong. … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 19 Info Alert Alert Chia sẻ bài viết qua e-mail

Here are the news stories you should not miss today, December 19: Society -- During a conference in the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap on Monday, Vietnam’s Minister of Transport Nguyen Van The called on competent authorities and experts to come up with new policies and projects to leverage the potential for waterway transportation in the region.-- Tropical storm Kai-Tak, the 15th to hit Vietnam this year, was located 430 kilometers southeast of the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on Monday evening, packing winds at 60 to 75km per hour. It was forecast to travel southwestward.-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has ordered competent agencies to carry out more patrols and sternly deal with violations of noise regulations in the metropolis.-- Hoang Thi Hong Diem, 32, has claimed she had snatched a knife from her husband and chop his head off after being threatened by the man during an argument at their tenanted house in the southern province of Binh Duong. … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 19

Check out the news you should not miss today, December 16 Politics-- Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh highlighted Vietnam’s active and effective contributions to building the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Mekong – Lancang Cooperation as its third meeting kicked off in Dali, China on Friday. Society-- A group of car drivers who had been driving on the motorbike lane on Thanh Tri Bridge in Hanoi was seen in a viral video on Facebook removing the barriers to move back to the right lane after noticing traffic police were on patrol ahead.-- A project to support the development and implementation of policies and programs on prevention and response to gender violence, domestic violence was launched by the ministries of labor and culture in Hanoi on Friday, with technical assistance of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in Vietnam.-- Vietnam marked the tenth year anniversary of a government resolution stipulating that people traveling on … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 16

Check out news you should not miss today: Politics-- General Secretary of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and President of Laos Bounnhang Vorachith and his spouse will pay an official visit to Vietnam from December 19 to 21 under the invitation of Vietnam’s Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President of Vietnam Tran Dai Quang. Society-- Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs is closely monitoring and preparing necessary methods to ensure the legal rights of Vietnamese fishermen, spokesperson Le Thi Thu Hang said on Thursday, referring to a case whereby four Vietnamese fishermen captured in Indonesia have gone on hunger strike to claim their innocence after being charged by a court in Indonesia for violating Indonesian waters.-- Typhoon Damrey has caused total damage worth US$1 billion after it swept through several regions in the central and southern Vietnam last month, with 4.3 million people affected, 123 killed and 342 injured, according to the Ministry … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 15

Here are today’s leading news stories: Politics-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc held talks with Sonoura Kentaro, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe in Hanoi on Monday evening, discussing measures to boost the two nations’ relationship. Society-- Minimum wages in Vietnam will increase in January 2018, according to a regulation promulgated by the central government.-- A total of 16 fifth-grade students at Van Mon Elementary School in the northern province of Bac Ninh were hospitalized for emergency treatment after the balcony on the second floor collapsed on Monday morning, causing the kids to fall onto the first floor.     -- The People’s Procuracy in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday proposed the death penalty upon Nguyen Thi Hoang Oanh, former director of the Agribank branch in Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, for embezzlement of property, bribery, and violations of regulations on the operations of credit institutions.-- … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 12

Check out the news you should not miss today, December 11: Politics -- The 11th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) for the 2017-22 tenure opened in Hanoi on Sunday, with the participation of nearly 1,000 young people. Tuoi Tre is the media organ under the Ho Chi Minh City chapter of the HCYU. Society -- Sixteen fishermen on board a fishing boat from the south-central province of Binh Dinh were rescued and brought to shore safely on Sunday after their vessel had engine problems off the central city of Da Nang two days earlier.-- A 31-year-old man is being held by police in the south-central beach city of Nha Trang for allegedly kidnapping a four-year-old boy for ransom, officers said on Sunday.-- Nguyen Van Khanh, 25, hailing from the southern province of Tra Vinh, has been placed under investigation on murder charges, after he fatally stabbed a woman for refusing to drink with him at a party last week, police said on Sunday.-- Bacteria E.Coli … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 11