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Politics:

-- Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc left Hanoi late on Friday night for Papua New Guinea to attend the 26th APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting on November 17-18 at the invitation of Papua New Guinea’s Prime Minister Peter O’Neill. He departed shortly after watching Vietnam defeating Malaysia 2-0 in their second Group A game at the ongoing 2018 AFF Championship at the My Dinh National Stadium.

Society:

-- A 45-year-old man poured gasoline around his house, with his wife and two children locked inside, in the southern province of Binh Duong, following a quarrel with the woman on Friday night. The wife was rescued at 10:30pm the same day, as law enforcement officers still tried to take the children to safety.

-- Vietnamese football fans in Ho Chi Minh City flocked to the streets near the Nguyen Hue pedestrian area to celebrate as hard as FIFA World Cup winners can do, after the Golden Stars beat Malaysia 2-0 in their second Group A game at the ongoing 2018 AFF Championship at the My Dinh National Stadium in Hanoi on Friday night.

-- A man has gone missing since November 7, after he and his friend suffered from a motorbike accident on the National Highway 50 in Binh Chanh District, Ho Chi Minh City. Footage from a CCTV nearby shows that a pair of unidentified man and woman approached the scene on a motorbike, talking and then carrying him away, leaving his friend behind.

-- Hanoi police discovered more than 200kg of illegal firecrackers transported in a taxi from the northern province of Lang Son to the Vietnamese capital for consumption on Friday.

Business:

-- Four domestic carriers, namely Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air, Jetstar Pacific and Vietnam Air Services Company (VASCO), reported about 2,530 delayed and 21 cancelled flights out of 22,896 flights they operated in October.

Lifestyle:

-- The Italian Cuisine Week (ICW) is taking place in Ho Chi Minh City from November 14 to 29 in its third return to the southern metropolis, with a wide range of activities including seminars and conferences, meetings with Italian chefs, food and wine tasting and dinners, commercial promotion programs, and cultural events.

Sports:

-- More than 7,000 athletes are competing in the National Sports Games which is taking place in Hanoi, the northern province of Hoa Binh and the south-central province of Khanh Hoa from November 15 to December 10.