Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – August 5

Politics

— The 48th ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting opened in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on Tuesday. The event, attended by representatives from 29 countries, including Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Secretary General Le Luong Minh, heard their serious concerns regarding the mounting tension caused by China in the East Vietnam Sea. The Vietnamese delegation is now led by Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

Society

— Senior Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Nhat Thanh, deputy chief of the District 1 Police Bureau in Ho Chi Minh City, said on Tuesday that V.H.T.V. and D.T.T.V, both 18, were fined VND750,000 (US$34) each for gathering crowds in public space and disrupting social order and security. The two girls are the “protagonists” in a “scheduled duel” on Monday night, which drew thousands of inquisitive spectators and cheerers, causing mayhem on the Nguyen Hue pedestrian street in the downtown area.

— In a press release on Tuesday evening, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam rejected a circulating rumor that the captain of the VJ 197 flight operated by budget carrier VietJer Air, which departed from Hanoi for Ho Chi Minh City the same day, got involved in a scuffle with a number of passengers. Some media means earlier reported that pilots of the flight allegedly dashed from the cockpit and thumped the passengers who insisted on opening the aircraft doors due to a problem with the air-conditioning system.

Business

— A piece of information circulating among the local hacker community on Tuesday morning says that nganluong.vn., a popular online wallet service, has been attacked by those hackers who claimed to be “Hacker 6009.”

— The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi quoted Jim Summer, president of the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council (USAPEEC), as refuting on Monday (U.S. time) allegations that U.S. businesses have been selling their chicken products at below-market prices in Vietnam. Nguyen Van Ngoc, deputy chair of the Animal Husbandry Association in southeastern Vietnam, has suggested that the USAPEEC announce their chicken production and export prices to prove their innocence.

— Addressing a Tuesday meeting which was attended by representatives of nearly 500 travel businesses and hotels, Truong Thi Hong Hanh, of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the central city of Da Nang, warned that hotel owners who break rules by pumping underground water for guest consumption without seeking prior consent from the municipal Department of Natural Resources and Environment will be sternly fined or may even have their business licenses revoked.

— Vietnam and the European Union will scrap up to 99 percent of import taxes for businesses from Vietnam and the bloc, Vu Huy Hoang, Minister of Industry and Trade said Tuesday at a meeting which was organized to announce the fundamental conclusion of their free trade agreement negotiations.

Education

— A group of young English learners in Vietnam who had detected some basic mistakes on page 652 of the Oxford Collocations Dictionary, which was printed in China and is distributed worldwide, demanded the mistakes be publicized on Oxford University’s website or other channels pending official print revisions. A representative of the topnotch British university, which is the publisher of the prestigious dictionary, in Vietnam has admitted the mistakes.

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