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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – November 29

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 11/29/2016 08:30 GMT + 7

Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, November 29:

Politics

-- Vietnam will hold a day of national mourning for Fidel Castro this Sunday, December 4, to express condolences and gratitude to the Cuban revolutionary leader, who passed away on November 25.

-- Many Vietnamese leaders and local residents on Monday flocked to the Cuban embassy in Hanoi to pay their last respects to the late Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who passed away last week.


Society

-- Nine design plans for the multibillion-dollar Long Thanh International Airport, slated for construction in the southern province of Dong Nai, are being displayed for public feedback at the Vietnam Exhibition Center for Culture and Arts in Hanoi.

-- The number of criminal cases in Ho Chi Minh City has dropped 14 percent in the last 11 months to 4,690, the municipal police department said at a meeting with the city's Party chief Dinh La Thang on Monday.

-- A blaze engulfed a two-story house in District 9, Ho Chi Minh City, on Monday afternoon, killing two women who failed to join others in escaping from the fire.

-- As of 8:00 am on Monday, Ho Chi Minh City had had 83 locally acquired Zika cases on record, with nine cases in pregnant women, the municipal preventive health center said.

-- Storm Tokage, the ninth storm to hit Vietnam this year, weakened into a tropical depression on Monday, but still brought cold weather to northern Vietnam, and rainfall to the central regions, in the next three to four days.


Business

-- The Vietnam Standards and Consumers Association (Vinastas) issued Monday a public apology for the misleading findings about the safety of traditionally-made fish sauce stated in a survey it conducted last month.

-- Vietnam's State Capital Investment Corporation confirmed on Monday it will sell more than 130.63 million shares, or a stake of nine percent, in dairy firm Vinamilk at a minimum bidding price of VND144,000 dong ($6.34) apiece on December 12.

-- A VND504 billion ($22.5 million) flyover is slated for construction at the Nguyen Thai Son-Nguyen Kiem intersection in Go Vap District, one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in Ho Chi Minh City, in January 2017.