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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – October 31

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 10/31/2016 08:30 GMT + 7

Happy Halloween from Vietnam!

Society

-- Four people were killed and another seriously injured after a seafood processing facility in the northern Vietnamese province of Thai Binh exploded on Sunday morning, the local administration stated.

-- Police in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on Sunday evening arrested two suspects for trading a total of 5,600 synthetic drug pills. An investigation showed that the two were members of a drug ring that smuggled the illegal products from Laos.

-- A twelfth-grade student in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai drowned in a local reservoir after trying to rescue a friend who tripped and fell into the lake on Saturday evening.

-- Three people in the southern province of Binh Phuoc have been detained for stealing from a vice-chairman of the local administration at his house, officers affirmed on Sunday.

-- A 27-year-old woman was slashed to death by a stranger as she was carrying her eight-year-old son on her motorcycle in Thai Binh Province on Sunday morning. The little boy suffered minor injuries, according to local police.

-- The General Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health on Sunday confirmed that a four-month-old girl in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has suffered from microcephaly, a birth defect brought about by the Zika virus, making it the first case in Vietnam.

Business

-- Continuous downpours have submerged many farms in Ho Chi Minh City, resulting in a hike in green vegetable prices.
-- The Ministry of Finance is considering taxing people who own more than one house.

-- Banks in Vietnam have been reluctant to invest in agriculture due to high risk and low profitability, Lai Xuan Mon, president of the Vietnam Farmer’s Union, said at a conference on Sunday.

Lifestyle

-- The Vietnam Buddhist Sangha in Ho Chi Minh City has kicked off the Buddhism week, which is scheduled to run from October 31 to November 7, at the Pho Quang Pagoda in Phu Nhuan District to commemorate the Sangha’s 35th anniversary.