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Politics

-- The Investigative Police Agency under the Ministry of Public Security has decided to investigate and arrest Nguyen Van Trinh, assistant to a deputy prime minister, for "abuse of powers and positions while on duty" under Clause 3, Article 356 of the Penal Code, the Vietnam News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Society

-- Ho Chi Minh City authorities have recently detected five warehouses and factories that produce dozens of tonnes of fake products bearing labels of common shampoo and shower gel brands such as X-Men, Romano, and Clear.

-- Ho Chi Minh City expects to conduct a test run of its metro line no. 1 with the participation of city leaders, the Japanese ambassador to Vietnam, and investors at the end of this month.

-- Nonprofits Save Vietnam's Wildlife and GreenViet have recently found 10 herds of 104 endangered gray-shanked douc langurs after surveying ten forests in Ba To District in the central province of Quang Ngai. 

-- Local authorities in Duc Trong District in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on Wednesday said they were investigating a case in which one died and five were rushed to hospital after they had meals and drank alcohol together on November 25.

-- A street civil guard in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan District has caught and handed a pangolin weighing about 3kg to local authorities after finding the animal wandering a local alley searching for food. 

Business

-- The People’s Council of Quang Binh Province had a meeting with Dutch company Pondera on Wednesday to discuss the possibility of cooperation in a wind farm project in the central locality, the Vietnam News Agency reported the same day.

World news

-- The number of people in Europe with undiagnosed HIV has risen as testing rates fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, threatening a global goal of ending the disease by 2030, Reuters cited a report.

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