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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – November 2

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/02/2016 08:55 GMT + 7

Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, November 2

Politics

-- Vietnam’s lawmakers discussed Tuesday a five-year financial plan, orientations for the mobilization and use of capital as well as the management of public debt in 2016-2020, and the middle-term public investment plan for the next five years.

-- German Minister for Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier attended the topping-out ceremony of the German House in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, as part of his visit to Vietnam between October 30 and November 1.

Society

-- A raging fire engulfed a karaoke parlor in Hanoi on Tuesday afternoon and only began to die down in the evening, killing 13 people.

-- Customs in Ho Chi Minh City detected more than 700 kg of African elephant tusks hidden in wood blocks transported via the municipal Cat Lat port on Tuesday, the fourth detection in a month.

-- Four suspects of the fatal shooting of a motel receptionist in Hanoi on October 27 have been arrested for investigation, police said Tuesday.

-- The Zika virus is on a rampage in Ho Chi Minh City, with the number of locally-transmitted cases rising in the last four weeks, local healthy authorities have warned.

Business

-- The administration of the northern Vietnamese province of Lang Son has urged the Prime Minister to consider its proposal to open a new high-speed railway route, which will be connected to the nearby railway across the border with China.

-- The Duyen Hai 1 thermal power plant in the southern province of Tra Vinh has been found generating electricity over the last ten years even though it has yet to obtain a certificate for adequate environmental protection facilities.

Lifestyle

-- The 2016 edition of Indochine, a 1992 French film set in colonial French Indochina during the 1930s to 1950s, is scheduled to be on screen within the framework of the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF, which kicked off on Tuesday night, as well as at Green Media cinemas.

Sports

-- The qualification for the 2017 AFC U-19 Women's Championship of Group D, consisting of Vietnam, Iran and India, kicks off today in Hanoi. The winner will join those in the other three qualifying groups to qualify to the finals (eight teams in total).