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

Politics

-- Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong highlighted the importance of the media in his article in celebration of the 90th Revolutionary Press Day (June 21).

Society

-- A tropical depression off Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago developed Sunday into a storm, named Kujira, which is the first to hit Vietnam this year.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City subway route No.4, which connects the Ben Cat Bridge in Go Vap District and Nguyen Van Linh Street in District 7, will be the longest and most expensive of its kind, with a length of 39km and a total investment of VND97 trillion (US$4.46 billion), according to the project management board.

-- Hundreds of vehicles traveling on National Highway No.13 in the southern province of Binh Duong had their engines stop as the road was flooded by a heavy downpour on Sunday afternoon.

-- A couple were stepping out of their car on a street in the northern city of Hai Phong on Sunday when they were attacked with sulfuric acid by another couple on a motorbike.

-- A 21-year-old man was arrested by police in the southern province of Dong Nai on Sunday on suspicion of posting a sex tape of him and his 15-year-old girlfriend on Facebook, driving the girl to commit suicide on June 17.

-- Four people of a family in the southern city of Can Tho managed to cheat death as their house collapsed into the river following severe land subsidence occurring at first light on Sunday.

Business

-- Norway’s Gravi Float AS has been allowed to study the feasibility of building a $45 million LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) power plant on Con Dao Island off the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau.

-- The first shipment of 17 tons of Vietnamese litchis has been exported to Australia, a sweet fruit for Vietnam after 12 years of talks to have its famous tropical fruit enter the market.

-- Vietnamese low-cost carrier VietJet Air and its Thai counterpart will launch a maiden flight on the Can Tho City – Bangkok route on July 21, according to the administration of the southern Vietnamese city.

Lifestyle

-- The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi and Freeland Foundation launches today, June 22, a wildlife short film competition called WildFest, in which young filmmakers of all nationalities are encouraged to highlight wildlife trafficking and rhino horn use in Vietnam.

Sports

-- English Premier League side Manchester City will play a friendly with the Vietnamese national squad in Hanoi on July 27 at the invitation of the Saigon Hanoi Commercial Joint Stock Bank, according to ther lender’s chairman Do Quang Hien.

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