Here are the top news stories about Vietnam you might have missed over the past 24 hours.

Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Truong Tan Sang on Wednesday met and congratulated journalists ahead of the 90th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day, which is celebrated annually on June 21, in Hanoi.

-- Thirty-seven legislators voiced their opinions about the draft revised Code on Criminal Procedures during the National Assembly’s plenary session in Hanoi on Wednesday.

Society

-- Tuoi Tre News, the English-language publication of Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper, celebrates its fifth birthday today.

-- Nguyen Van Loi, former director of the Binh Chanh District branch of state-run lender Agribank in Ho Chi Minh City, was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in jail over economic wrongdoings that cost his bank VND27 billion (US$1.24 million).

-- Police in the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau is searching for a Russian tourist named Anna Studnitsyna, who had disappeared after a local bank mistakenly paid her $12,000 in cash instead of the VND12 million ($600) she actually wished to withdraw from her account.

-- The central Vietnamese province of Quang Ngai is facing one of its worst-ever drought, with locals having to pay VND120,000 ($5.5) for a cubic meter of water for household use purposes, while their daily income is only around VND200,000.

-- An American-Vietnamese man suspected of buying sex from a 15-year-old Vietnamese girl in the southernmost province of Ca Mau has been put in temporary police custody for investigation, officers said Wednesday.

Business

-- Quantum of the Seas, a new cruise ship of Royal Caribbean International, arrived for the first time in the southern Vietnamese province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau on Wednesday, allowing more than 6,000 tourists to explore the province’s famous beach city of Vung Tau.

-- Vietnam imported 13,400 completely built cars from China in the first five months of this year, a massive 295 percent increase from the same period last year, according to customs data.

-- The radio frequency that is believed to have interfered with the air traffic control frequency at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City and disabled communication with airplanes on Tuesday might have come from an inside rather than outside source, an official from the Authority of Radio Frequency Management said Wednesday.

Lifestyle

-- Nineteen news agencies in the southern region participated in a music contest, which concluded Wednesday, to celebrate the 90^th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day (June 21).

Sports

-- The Vietnamese under-23 men’s football squad have received a total of VND3 billion ($137,804) worth of bonuses from different individual and organizations over their bronze medal at the 28^th SEA Games, which concluded Tuesday in Singapore.

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