Politics -- Vietnam and Poland will soon organize a deputy ministerial-level defense dialogue and work together in training personnel for the defense industry, the Vietnam News Agency said, citing the activities as part of a future cooperation plan about which Vietnamese Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh agreed with his Polish counterpart Tomasz Siemoniak during their talks in Hanoi on Thursday. — Vietnam always treasures its traditional relationship with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), which was established and fostered by late Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minh and late President Kim Il-sung, Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang told DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Su-yong during a meeting in Hanoi on Thursday. Society — Vietnam debuted a new Coast Guard unit on Thursday that is tasked with enforcing Vietnamese marine laws along the coast stretching from the central province of Binh Dinh to the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang. The unit is also required to patrol the Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago and protect the DK1 platform, a kind of marine border post. The team is provided with CSB 8001, Vietnam’s largest Coast Guard vessel. — A total of 246 Vietnamese workers have returned to Vietnam from unrest-marred Libya, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said at a press conference on Thursday. By Tuesday evening, about 1,550 Vietnamese workers remained working in 15 localities in the North African country, the ministry’s Consular Department said. — Hanoi police arrested three people on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the murder of a 53-year-old man taking place on Tuesday. — People coming to Vietnam will be required to fill out a health declaration form from August 15 forward if they visit such Ebola-affected countries as Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Nigeria within 21 days from their entry, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health said on Thursday. BusinessSports — Vietnam will attend the Second Summer Youth Olympic Games that takes place from August 16 to 28 in China. Vietnamese athletes will leave for China on August 13. Education — The Vietnamese Ministry of Education and Training said in a decision on Thursday that no university in Vietnam is allowed to admit new enrollments for distance learning courses in teacher training from the same day onward. — A Vietnamese university has sued a Vietnamese-Belgian professor at a local court for allegedly violating a contract to publish an international-standard English language journal with it.
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