Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – February 1

Enjoy your breakfast while skimming these brief news items on Tuoi Tre News today, February 1

Society

– The HQ-184 Hai Phong submarine, the third of six Kilo-class submarines Vietnam has contracted to buy from Russia, entered Cam Ranh Military Harbor in the central province of Khanh Hoa at noon on Saturday.

– According to the General Statistics Department, industrial enterprises in Vietnam have boosted their labor recruitment during the final month of the lunar year, or January 2015. The northern province of Thai Nguyen has seen the sharpest rise, a 124.6% year-on-year increase.

– Senior Lieutenant General Le Quy Vuong, deputy Public Security Minister, told a recent session that custody centers nationwide need another 14,000 two-square-meter cells. It is estimated to cost VND3.6 trillion (US$167.77 million) to build custody centers as planned.

Business

– The central province of Binh Dinh is stepping up its export of tunas to Japan. Seven tunas which have met Japanese standards have just been packaged and ready to enter the Japanese market.

– Hoa Binh Co. on Saturday morning inaugurated its V+ Commercial Center in Hanoi’s Hai Ba Trung District. The five-floor center is home to over 1,000 stalls which are leased for free in the next 50 years. The stalls are supposed to offer made-in-Vietnam products only.

– Several gas companies in Ho Chi Minh City announced on Saturday afternoon that local gas retail prices will hike by VND5,000 ($0.23) per 12-kilogram cylinder from Sunday, February 1.

– A local official of Ben Tre Province in the Mekong Delta announced the province’s Cho Lach District is expected to supply over 5.5 million flower products for this year’s Tet (traditional Lunar New Year,) which begins on February 19.

Education

– The 2015 Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship (MOSWC,) jointly launched by the Ministry of Education and Training, Tuoi Tre (Youth) Newspaper, local mobile operator Viettel, and IIG Vietnam – the representative of Certiport in Vietnam, kicked off in the central city of Da Nang on Saturday morning. The MOSWC is an annual competition involving Microsoft Office applications held all over the world by Certiport – an American organization specializing in validating fundamental computer skills and knowledge through performance-based testing.

Lifestyle

– Hoang Tuan Anh, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and several artisans received the UNESCO certificate from the organization’s head representative in Vietnam for “vi, giam” folk songs on Saturday night. “Vi” and “Giam” folk songs typical of the north-central Vietnamese provinces of Nghe An and Ha Tinh were acknowledged by the UNESCO as an Intangible Cultural Heritage in late November last year.

Sports

– NutiFood, a local major milk producer, on Saturday afternoon signed a memorandum with Jean Marc Guillou, general director of the global sports organization and training company JMG, regarding the establishment of Nutifood Football Academy in Ho Chi Minh City. Tran Thanh Hai, Nutifood’s board chair, told Tuoi Tre the establishment plan is inspired by the notable success earned by the young players of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) – Arsenal JMG Academy in the past two years.

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