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Breakfast @ Tuoi Tre News – December 5

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 12/05/2016 08:30 GMT + 7

Here are the leading news stories about Vietnam you should not miss today, December 5

Society

-- Traffic police in the central Vietnamese city of Da Nang on Sunday announced their official Facebook page to receive reports of local residents on the traffic situation across the city.

-- The number of Zika patients in Ho Chi Minh City has topped 94, of whom 12 are pregnant women, the municipal Preventive Medicine Center affirmed on Saturday.

-- Police are carrying out an investigation to identify and determine the cause of the death of a 40-year-old woman, whose body was found in the Tau Hu Canal in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Road construction and renovation works have once again been carried out on many streets, affecting the lives and business operations of many residents in Ho Chi Minh City during this busy time of the year.

-- The Ministry of Health has allowed Binh Dan (Affordable) Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to perform laparoscopic surgery using robots. The hospital is the first infirmary in the southern city and second in Vietnam to apply the technique.

-- A man has been critically injured while his mother-in-law was killed after their motorcycle was hit by a trailer truck in the southern province of Binh Duong on Sunday morning.


Business

-- Dragon fruit farmers in Binh Thuan, Long An, and Tien Giang are struggling as nearly 90 percent of their plants have been affected by white spot disease.

-- The Vietnamese government has signed a total of 34 agreements to borrow over US$5.1 billion in foreign loans and issued bonds worth about VND274.5 trillion ($12.1 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, according to a report by the Ministry of Finance.

-- Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup has announced a new public real estate division, Vincity, which is expected to provide between 200,000 and 300,000 affordable apartments, priced at about VND700 million ($30,866) each, in the next five years.