Read what is in the news in Vietnam today:

Society

-- Police said on Saturday that they had busted three rings that smuggled thousands of metric tons of gold from Cambodia and China into Vietnam.

-- Police in central Quang Nam Province reported on Saturday that they had handed over an endangered Indochinese box turtle weighing one kilogram to local rangers. A local woman had spotted the turtle on a local paddy field two days earlier.

-- A man was arrested while carrying six pangolins on his motorbike in Quang Tri Province, north-central Vietnam on Friday, local police reported the next day.

Lifestyle

-- The ongoing 2024 Laos-Vietnam tourism, culture, and trade promotion festival, slated to take place until Tuesday in Ho Chi Minh City, features nearly 100 booths of the two countries’ enterprises.

-- Despite a heavy rain, many foreign tourists waded through mud to experience first-hand the jobs of Vietnamese farmers during a festival in a ward in Hoi An City, central Quang Nam Province on Saturday.

-- Nguyen Ngoc Kieu Duy from Can Tho City in southern Vietnam was crowned the inaugural Miss National Vietnam during the pageant’s finale in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening.

World News

-- “President Vladimir Putin on Saturday apologised to Azerbaijan's leader for what the Kremlin called a ‘tragic incident’ over Russia in which an Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed,” Reuters reported.

-- “President-elect Donald Trump has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to pause implementation of a law that would ban popular social media app TikTok or force its sale, arguing he should have time after taking office to pursue a ‘political resolution’ to the issue,” according to Reuters.

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