Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News — August 18

Read what is in the news today:

Society

-- The number of new coronavirus infections detected in the community was 2,568, accounting for over 72 percent of 3,540 cases recorded in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday, up 19 percent from the previous day, according to the city’s COVID-19 Portal.

-- Dr. Nguyen Hong Chuong, director of the Binh Duong Department of Health, on Tuesday sent a condolence letter to the family of a 32-year-old midwife at Binh Duong General Hospital in the namesake southern province as the staff had died from COVID-19 during her 20th week of pregnancy.

-- Police in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday night detained a foreigner and seized his bicycle after catching him cycling on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street at around 8:00 pm, which is against the city’s daily travel ban between 6:00 pm and 6:00 am the next day.

-- A COVID-19 patient in Ho Chi Minh City has survived critical conditions and seen his health improved thanks to timely treatment as his wife had posted a touching call for help on the verified Facebook page of Cho Ray Hospital.

-- The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has proposed the central government provide the poor in the southern city with financial aid of nearly VND28 trillion (US$1.22 billion) and 142,200 metric tons of rice.

-- Doctors in Vietnam have successfully performed a liver transplant on a child patient with terminal liver cancer for the first time.

-- Ho Chi Minh City chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong has approved a proposal of Saigon Water Corporation, the city’s water supplier, to offer a 10-percent discount on water bills to people and businesses from September to November.

Education

-- Two students from the University of Technology under the Vietnam National University-Ho Chi Minh City have had their article about monocular 3D object detection approved for publication in the prestigious PeerJ Computer Science journal.

-- Two Vietnamese men, a businessman and a doctor, have won the outstanding young leaders of Asia award in 2021 given away the Asian Youth Council for their significant contributions to the community, according to the Vietnam Government Portal.

Business

-- Vietnam invested $570.1 million overseas in January-July, or 2.3 times higher than the same period last year, according to the Foreign Investment Agency under the Ministry of Planning and Investment. 

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