Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 29

Catch up on the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Many cities and provinces in the southern region of Vietnam are forecast to face showers and thunderstorms on Friday afternoon, while bitter cold weather is still blanketing the northern region on the same day, according to the national weather center.

-- The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment is gathering feedback on the environmental impact assessment of a hotel and bungalow complex project at the Tam Dao National Park spanning Vinh Phuc and Thai Nguyen Provinces in northern Vietnam.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has written to the municipal Department of Culture and Sports and the High Command of the city asking for an increase in the number of venues holding fireworks displays to usher in the 2024 Lunar New Year.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has issued a decision revoking the business licenses of two passenger transport firms, including Rang Dong and Hoan Hoa, for an indefinite period, effective from December 26.

-- Authorities in Da Nang City, central Vietnam on Thursday started to destroy 10 metric tons of ivory, pangolin scales, lion bones, and rhino horns smuggled into Vietnam from Africa in 2021.

-- As many as 29,000 farmer households in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang benefited from the Vietnam Sustainable Agriculture Transformation project funded by the World Bank, heard a conference to review the project in the locality on Thursday, reported the Vietnam News Agency.

Business

-- Vietnamese EV maker VinFast has launched its first partnership with a U.S.-based dealer, North Carolina-based Leith Automotive Group, its latest effort to ramp up sales in the United States market, Reuters cited the two companies as saying.

Lifestyle

-- Oh Duk, a South Korean businessman, who has lived and worked in Vietnam for 30 years, has been invited to be a honorary delegate to vote for 10 typical art and literature events in the Southeast Asian nation in 2023.

-- Hundreds of sheep dressed in colorful costumes joined a parade at April 16 Square in Phan Rang - Thap Cham City under Ninh Thuan Province, south-central Vietnam on Thursday afternoon, pleasing residents and tourists.

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