See what's in the news today, November 6!

Politics

-- The 2017 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week kicks off today in central Vietnam’s Da Nang City with a six-day working agenda set to create new dynamism for Vietnam to develop and improve its status in the international political and economic scene.

Society

-- Vietnam’s central region is at risk of suffering from one of the country’s heaviest floods of all time as the circulation of Typhoon Damrey, which hit the area last week, continues to bring day-long downpours at record precipitation.

-- Ho Chi Minh City is set to replace all current electromechanical electricity meters with electronic ones by 2022, according to Pham Quoc Bao, deputy general director of Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation.

-- Vietnam is expected to completely bid farewell to residence books by the year 2019 following a recent government resolution that approved the abolishment of the decades-old residential management method, according to an itinerary set out by the Ministry of Public Security.

Business

-- Vietnam’s recent draft law on cyber security that looks to require all foreign providers of Internet-related services to open data centers in the country would not only affect Facebook and Google, but also hotel booking sites like Agoda and Booking, experts fear.

-- Travel companies in Vietnam that operate tours for delegates attending the 2017 APEC Economic Leaders’ Week are struggling to keep up with the initial itinerary due to heavy rains and flooding in the central region as a result of Typhoon Damrey.

-- Vietnam-grown rice is losing the domestic market to imported rice from Cambodia, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh as consumers put more trust in the foreign produce due to their superior quality and safety.

-- Apple Vietnam has filed a formal request to local authorities asking for more relaxed regulations on the import of its smart watches by accepting certification issued by foreign entities instead of requiring the company to acquire further permits in Vietnam.

Education

-- Experts from Cambodia and Tra Vinh University in southern Vietnam has finished compiling Vietnamese-Khmer and Khmer-Vietnamese Dictionaries with over 42,000 entries each, which are scheduled for publication later this year in both physical and digital editions.

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