Here are the leading Vietnamese news stories in brief for November 24, 2014.
Society
— Nearly a hundred locals on Sunday besieged a group of traffic police on duty in the southern province of Dong Nai after one of the cops reportedly injured a motorbike driver while pulling him over for check.
— An hours-long downpour flooded many streets in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 10 and 11 on Sunday afternoon.
— Veteran journalist Vo Nhu Lanh, the very first editor-in-chief of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, passed away on Sunday. Lanh led the daily from 1977 to 1983.
— Three employees of the Southern Airports Corporation were Sunday suspended from duty for 15 days for their responsibility in the unprecedented blackout that hit the Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat airport on November 20.
— The owner of a motel in the central province of Nghe An was found to hide nearly 100kg of explosives after police raided his facility early Sunday.
Business
— Ho Chi Minh City targets a GDP growth of 9.5-10 percent in 2015, the city leaders said at the municipal Party Committee 20th session that kicked off last weekend.
–Airbus A350 XWB, the latest edition of the wide-bodied civil model of planemaker Airbus, performed a demo flight in Hanoi on Saturday.
— Apple iPad Air 2 plated with 24k gold by a company in Vietnam are now available at $1,315 for the 64GB edition, and 1,173 for the 16GB.
— The U.S. is likely surpass the EU to become Vietnam’s largest import market of footwear products, with many importers shifting orders from China to the Southeast Asian country.
— Five Vietnamese firms, including Vinamilk, Vietcombank, FPT, PVGas, and Vingroup, have been listed among the ASEAN 100 Companies list by Nikkei Asian Review, a newswire that covers business in Asia.
Lifestyle
— Vietnamese fashion designer Do Manh Cuong will have 70 twin models showcase his latest works for the Autumn-Winter collection during a show in Ho Chi Minh City this Tuesday.
— The 3rd Hanoi International Film Festival kicked off Sunday in Hanoi. Hundreds of films from some 36 countries and territories will compete and be screened at the event that runs until Thursday.
Education
— Puzzle books for children with misleading, nonsense, and inappropriate contents are widely available at bookstores across the country, worrying parents.
Sports
— A chess championship for the visually-impaired kicked off Sunday in Ho Chi Minh City.
— Goalie Nguyen Manh will still be playing during Vietnam’s next game against Laos at the ongoing 2014 AFF Suzuki Cup despite his silly mistake that enabled Indonesia to level their group stage opener to 2-2 on Saturday, according to coach Miura.
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