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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

Check out what is in the news on December 13 Society-- A cold front, forecast to be the strongest to hit northern Vietnam this winter, will create severely cold weather conditions there and possible snow in mountainous areas starting Saturday, the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting warned.-- Astronomy fans in Vietnam can behold Geminids, an annual biggest meteor shower, which will have a peak activity meteor count on Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, according to the Vietnam Astronomy and Cosmology Association.-- Police in Tan Chau Town in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang have revealed they had arrested and begun legal proceedings against a 32-year-old physical education male teacher for allegedly dating and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.-- Police in Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, disclosed on Tuesday they were investigating a purported suicide committed by a middle-aged couple and their teen son in a house earlier the same day.-- C46, … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — December 13

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

Read what is in the news today, December 14: Society -- Fifty-eight new caves have been discovered within the Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park in north-central Vietnam’s Quang Binh Province, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site known for its system of massive caves and grottos. -- Vietnam should update its salary policies for public workers by possibly adopting a new payment system based on the civil servants’ productivity instead of academic credentials, experts proposed at a conference on salary reform held in Hanoi on Wednesday. Business -- Hsu Ming Jung, a.k.a. Saga, a 42-year-old businessman from Taiwan, is facing life imprisonment for his economic frauds carried out between 2012 and 2014 that conned 724 people out of nearly VND270 billion (US$11.89 million) through a gold trading floor he ran in Vietnam. -- The Supreme People’s Procuracy of Vietnam has prosecuted seven people involved in wrongdoings that led to the … [Read more...] about ​Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 14