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Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres co-chaired a ceremony commemorating the 45th anniversary of Vietnam’s membership in the UN in Hanoi on Friday afternoon. 

-- The National Assembly elected Ngo Van Tuan as the auditor general of the State Audit Office by a majority vote on Friday, and confirmed the appointments of Dao Hong Lan and Nguyen Van Thanh as the new acting ministers of health and transport, respectively.

Society

-- Mien Dong (Eastern) Bus Station in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City, is going to launch two new bus routes on Saturday to transport passengers to its new station in Thu Duc City for free.

-- Police in Hanoi on Friday initiated legal proceedings against a workshop fire case that killed one person the previous day.

-- The Vietnam Records Association has recognized the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City as the country's oldest hospital at 160 years.

Business

-- Vietnam's stock market suffered a plunge on Friday, falling 3.65 percent from a day earlier to 1,019.82 points, marking its worst decline since October 3.

World News

-- Boris Johnson has been gaining momentum in his audacious bid to return as British prime minister, with his colleagues deeply divided over the potential comeback and some warning he would plunge the country into fresh chaos, according to Reuters on Friday.

-- Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect on Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts banning handgun imports, Reuters reported.

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