Politics

-- President Truong Tan Sang signed Sunday an order to announce the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and a resolution stipulating the implementation of the Constitution.

Society

-- A mysterious local has put on a banderole with a text that says “As a Bien Hoa resident and a Vietnamese, I fee ashamed for those who “stole several cans of beer” here on December 4” at the location where hundreds of mobs looted a capsized beer truck in Bien Hoa City last week.

-- The driver of a container truck fled the scene after hitting a motorbike and killed one of the two men on the vehicle on the highway path leading from Da Nang to Tam Ky city of Quang Nam on Sunday.

-- A child went missing while two adults were injured after a raging fire engulfed a new residential area for workers in Hanoi’s Ha Dong District on Sunday.

-- Two trucks were involved in a pile-up due to fogs on the National Highway 1A passing Nghe An on early Sunday morning, blocking traffic for nearly 4 hours. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

-- Customs officers at Hanoi’s Noi Bai International Airport detained Saturday a Filipino national for bringing 3.6kg of cocaine into Vietnam.

Business

-- By the end of this year, the total public debts of Ho Chi Minh City will top VND12 trillion, according to a report released Sunday by the city’s People’s Committee.

-- Retailers across HCMC are launching their last promotion campaigns of the year as consumers are preparing for the coming Christmas and New Year holidays.

-- -- Tuoi Tre unveils a report series to explain why Vietnam’s trade deficit to China has risen by 100 times within the last ten years.

-- Ho Chi Minh City has targeted to increase its GDP per capita to US$4,800 by 2015.

Lifestyle

-- -- Ngoc Thinh, a 19-year-old dancer, became the winner of the So You Think You Can Dance Vietnamese version season 2 with 35 percent of the audience votes dedicated to him.

-- The Voice Kid Vietnam winner Quang Anh and runnner-up Phuong My Chi are in the top 5 of the 2013 Mai Vang Award, an annual program hosted by Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper to honor best artists of the year.

-- Pop singer Le Quyen has set a new record with her “Q show”, a live concert to mark her 15 years of singing that kicked off in HCMC last weekend, as tickets were sold at as much as VND20 million a pair.

Sports

-- Ten-men Laos managed to hold Singapore 1-1 at the Group A second game of the ongoing SEA Games 27 in Myanmar on Sunday while Vietnam trounced Brunei 7-0 in the opener.