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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News - November 9

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/09/2016 08:30 GMT + 7

Check out what is in the news today, November 9:

Politics

-- During a meeting with Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi on Tuesday, Irish President Michael D. Higgins stressed his government considers Vietnam an important partner in the region, and expressed wishes to beef up multifaceted cooperation with the Southeast Asian nation, particularly in trade, investment, education, renewable energy, and climate change response.


Society

-- An official from the Ministry of Construction reported at a Vietnam-Netherlands cooperation forum held on Tuesday that most landfills across the Asian country have failed hygienic standards. Among them, 132 landfills are in dire need of radical solutions to the untold pollution they have caused to the neighborhoods.

-- Around 100 residents formed a barrier with rocks and vehicles on a section of Vo Van Kiet Street in Dong Anh District, Hanoi, to demand the construction of an overpass in the neighborhood. The incident caused a one-hour traffic jam on the sole road connecting the downtown areas with Noi Bai International Airport.

-- Authorities at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City are detaining a 51-year-old Chinese national after catching him rummaging through another passenger’s luggage on a Vietnam Airlines flight bound for Hanoi on Tuesday morning. The airport authorities had also deported another Chinese man for stealing from another passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh City last week.

-- A cold front has been covering and bringing lashing rains to northern localities, including Hanoi, since Tuesday evening and will continue to do so in the next few days, according to the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- Police in Cho Gao District in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang confirmed on Tuesday that a woman, her 24-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son had died in hospital some days after they had been found drinking from a bottle of weed killer.

-- Police in Xuan Loc District in the southern province of Dong Nai confirmed on Tuesday that they had arrested another 20 drug addicts for investigation into an incident occurring at a rehab center on Sunday in which over 160 drug addicts stirred up chaos and broke out of the venue.


Business

-- The Airports Corporation of Vietnam and the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam have proposed a hike in the prices of several aviation services to the Ministry of Transport, with the new rates to be applied in 2017.

-- The Ministry of Industry and Trade on Tuesday reached a conclusion that the Vietnam Standards and Consumers Association had made some errors and had not guaranteed independence, trustworthiness and transparency when conducting a food safety survey that found an excessive amount of organic arsenic in dozens of Vietnamese fish sauces. The name of an organization sponsoring the association to carry out the study remains a mystery.

-- The relentless competition on the local retail market in recent times has left supermarkets and shopping malls racing to launch promotion programs in a bid to attract new shoppers and boost their patrons’ fidelity.

-- Several banks have announced large profits in a performance report of the first nine months this year.