Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – September 23

Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Politics

-- Vietnam’s Ministry of National Defence held a departure ceremony at Noi Bai International Airport on September 22 for Level-2 Field Hospital Rotation 8 and Engineering Unit Rotation 5, bound for UN peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and Abyei, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Vietnamese Prime Minister Le Minh Hung has ordered ministries, agencies and localities to ensure that key transport projects remain on schedule and to achieve 100 percent disbursement of allocated investment capital, stressing that project timelines must not be delayed or adjusted without legitimate reasons.

-- Prolonged heavy rain on Tuesday evening caused flooding on several roads and low-lying areas in Phu Quoc Special Zone in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam, making travel difficult.

-- As unverified warnings about Ebola have circulated widely on social media, causing public concern, doctor Phan Vinh Tho of Ho Chi Minh City’s Hospital for Tropical Diseases advised people to remain calm, rely on information from official sources, and avoid spreading unverified information.

-- During the construction of the Bac Thach Ha Industrial Park in Ha Tinh Province, north-central Vietnam, VSIP Ha Tinh Co. Ltd. discovered a large volume of waste buried underneath the project site.

-- A bar owner in Ho Chi Minh City was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organizing the sale of more than 65,000 nitrous oxide balloons at his bar, generating more than VND6.9 billion ($265,120) in illegal profits.

Economy

-- The two daughters of Cao Thi Ngoc Dung, chairwoman of the board of directors of Vietnamese jeweller PNJ, have completed the sale of 25 million PNJ shares, with the total value estimated at approximately VND920 billion ($35.4 million).

Education

-- Nguyen Van Troi Middle School in Ho Chi Minh City, which has around 5,000 students, is short of 50 teachers, forcing the school to combine classes and use online teaching while maintaining the curriculum.