Have a great Christmas Day!

Society

-- The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam has proposed airlines keep their airplanes overnight at Can Tho Airport, located in the namesake Mekong Delta city, to alleviate crowding at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City.

-- The chief of the Ho Chi Minh City Urban Railway Management Board has put the tardiness of a metro line, the city’s first urban railway project, down to several causes, including complicated procedures.

-- Storm Nock-ten, which has almost strengthened to a super typhoon and threatened lives and property in the Philippines over Christmas, is expected enter the East Vietnam Sea on Monday (December 26) night, and bring slashing rains to central provinces in a few days to come, according to the Vietnam National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting.

-- Border soldiers in the north-central province of Nghe An confirmed on Saturday they are transferring a 36-year-old Laotian to local police for trafficking eight bricks of heroin into Vietnam on Friday night.

-- Police from the anti-smuggling department and Binh Duong Province, approximately 30 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, on Saturday busted nearly 10 metric tons of goods smuggled from China aboard a train when it went through a station in Di An Town.

Business

-- A ceremony was held on Saturday to welcome the five millionth foreign arrival of 2016 to Ho Chi Minh City.

-- Vietnamese conglomerate Vingroup on Saturday put into operation a five-star, 30-story hotel, which is currently the Mekong Delta’s tallest skyscraper, in Can Tho City.

-- An influx of people has flocked to malls, supermarkets and markets over the Christmas weekend, with sales at supermarkets surging by two- to fourfold as Tet (Lunar New Year) is nearing.  

Lifestyle

-- The director of the relic conservation center in Hoi An City, located in the central province of Quang Nam, has revealed areas meant for peddlers in its    UNESCO-recognized Hoi An Ancient Town will be rearranged starting New Year’s Day, in a bid to better promote its traditional handicrafts and put an end to tourist harassment.

Sports

-- Vietnamese player Nguyen Anh Tu on Saturday defeated his Singaporean opponent to bag the third gold medal for his country at the ongoing 10^th Southeast Asian table tennis tournament in Indonesia.