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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – November 27

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/27/2016 08:30 GMT + 7

Have a nice Sunday!

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Saturday morning left the Lao capital of Vientiane for Bolikhamsai Province as part of his ongoing official visit to Laos, which aims to foster solidarity and comprehensive cooperation between the two neighbors.

-- Vietnam’s State President Tran Dai Quang led a delegation to the two-day 16th Francophonie Summit, which kicked off in Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar, on November 26 (Madagascar time).


Society

-- A customs officer at Tinh Bien Border Gate Station in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang said on Saturday they had started legal proceedings against a 50-year-old Cambodian border guard major who had been caught smuggling 18 kilograms of gold from Cambodia on Friday.

-- Vo Thanh Thuy, director of the Department of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs in the southern province of Tay Ninh, confirmed on Saturday that they are working with local police to scour for nearly 30 out of 68 junkies who had stirred up chaos and broken out of a rehabilitation center in Tan Chau District on Friday afternoon.

-- Le Tan Ban, director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, revealed on Saturday they had taken samples of sea water in Van Ninh District to investigate the cause of mass fish deaths over the past few days.

-- Police in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, said on Saturday that they had swooped on a karaoke restaurant in the downtown area in the early morning and arrested around 60 youths allegedly getting high on drugs.


Business

-- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has decided to adopt a stringent three-year monitoring program on wastewater discharged by a steel plant subsidiary of Taiwan's Formosa Plastics Group in central Vietnam, the 'culprit' of a spate of fish deaths which hit some central provinces in April this year.

-- Following the resounding success of an online sales program this Friday in replication of the Black Friday shopping weekend in the U.S., retailers in Ho Chi Minh City have geared up for the year-end shopping spree. A sharper rise in buying power has been recorded compared to the same period last year as the upcoming Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday starts on January 26, several days earlier than usual.


Lifestyle

-- Nearly 1,000 athletes from over 30 countries and territories including Japan, the U.S., Germany and South Korea partook in a marathon held on Saturday in Ha Long City, home to the UNESCO-recognized Ha Long Bay in the northern province of Quang Ninh.