Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – June 29

A summary of what you need to know in Vietnam for today:

Business

— Vietnamese oil and gas giant PetroVietnam on Sunday kicked off two projects to build an integrated petrol service port and a bonded warehouse together with a national petrol reserve in An Thoi Town, off Phu Quoc Island in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang. The two projects cost VND4.2 trillion (US$192 million) and VND1.4 trillion ($64 million) respectively.

— According to an assessment by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development released at a seminar in Hanoi on Sunday, a mere one percent of enterprises in Vietnam have invested in the agriculture sector.

Society

— A group of unregistered “xich lo” (three-wheeled vehicle) drivers operating around Ben Thanh Market in downtown Ho Chi Minh City have blatantly ripped off their passengers who are tourists, including foreigners, or jerking banknotes right from tourists’ hands. Most tourists are at a loss how to react when the gang takes cash from their own wallets.

— The inspectorate of Ho Chi Minh City has recently slapped fines totaling VND100 million ($4,582) on 21 contractors of traffic infrastructural works for their rule violations.

Education

— Vietnam is gearing up for the national high school graduation exam, to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday. Its results will be used to admit students to college.

— Four academically, socially outstanding Vietnamese students are to join 32 delegates from other countries in a forum under the “Hitachi Young Leaders Initiative,” which is slated to run in Manila, the Philippines, from July 27 to 30. Launched in Singapore in 1996, the initiative is a community relations program that aims to identify and nurture potential Asian leaders, with six Southeast Asian countries and Japan in its current membership.

— A skeleton and muscle gauging laboratory worth VND5 billion ($229,106) was put into use at Ho Chi Minh City-based Ton Duc Thang University on Sunday. The facility is the country’s most cutting-edge laboratory in the musculoskeletal field, according to Associate Professor Vu Dinh Hung, chair of the Rheumatology Association.

Sports

— A downpour accompanied by strong gusts on Saturday weighed down part of the roof of the Rach Mieu Sports Hall, located in Phu Nhuan District in Ho Chi Minh City. Sport activities there ground to a halt on Sunday morning so that inspections and repairs could be carried out.

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