Breakfast @ Tuoitrenews – June 24

Briefs on some of the leading news stories published on Tuesday (June 24) in Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper:

Politics:

-- The Vietnamese National Assembly has demanded a review the impacts of two bauxite mining projects Tan Rai and Nhan Co in the Central Highlands on the local economy, society, and security.

-- National Assembly Deputy Pham Tat Thang from Vinh Long Province, located in the Mekong Delta, suggested at a meeting on Monday that the modified law on investment should include terms that give priority to the defense industry.

-- Chinese ships rammed into the Vietnam Fisheries Resources Surveillance ship 951 in Vietnamese waters on Monday, causing it to suffer heavy damage. The entire left side of the ship was deformed.

-- Yesterday, Vietnam signed a pact of cooperation with the Permanent Court of Arbitration, giving it the legal right to solve international disputes through arbitrators, intermediaries, and committees of investigators.

Society:

-- Tourist attraction site Trang An in the northern province of Ninh Binh was yesterday recognized as a World Heritage item by the UNESCO, according to the Department of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism.

-- The retail price of gasoline in Vietnam rose by 330 dong a liter as of 8:00 pm on Monday, taking the price tag to VND25,230 per liter.

-- Authorities of the Central Highlands city of Da Lat will look into toxic substances found in potatoes imported from China.

-- The Ministry of Construction has submitted to the government a VND2.4 trillion (US$115.4 million) housing project for 86,000 households living in the coastal areas from northern Quang Ninh Province to southern Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province in three years till 2016.

-- One hundred and forty-six child patients died of measles in Vietnam in the first six months, according to the Ministry of Health.