Check out the news you should not miss today, November 27:

Politics

-- Vietnamese National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan arrived at Changi International Airport on Sunday, starting her official visit to Singapore.

-- Vietnam effectively fulfilled its role as the host of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders’ Week from November 6 to11, with agreements and deals worth US$20 billion inked during the event, State President Tran Dai Quang underlined in an article on Sunday.

Society

-- Ten workers were hurt when a scaffold collapsed at a bus station construction site in the north-central province of Nghe An on Sunday.

-- Local authorities on Sunday suspended the Mam Xanh childcare facility in District 12, Ho Chi Minh City, from operation after its employees were found to have physically abused dozens of children in a Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper exposé published the same day.

-- Ho Chi Minh City will pilot leasing cars to public servants, instead of using the city’s budget to buy its own fleet of vehicles with government-owned license plates, from January 2018 in a bid to save taxpayers’ money and avoid misuse of the vehicles.

-- Ho Chi Minh City should issue a call for tenders to select a qualified waste treatment contractor from 2018, the municipal Party chief Nguyen Thien Nhan requested at a meeting on Sunday.

-- Internet speed in Vietnam, affected by a rupture in the underwater cable system AAG earlier this month, will remain slow for at least two more weeks, local service providers said Sunday.

Business

-- Ride-hailing apps Uber and Grab have been listed among businesses in Vietnam to undergo tax inspections next year, according to the General Department of Taxation.

-- Remittances from expatriate Vietnamese to Ho Chi Minh City have reached $3.9 billion in the year to November, and are expected to top $5.2 billion this year, up six percent from 2016, Nguyen Hoang Minh, deputy governor of the State Bank of Vietnam, said on Sunday.

-- Vietcombank has been listed as Vietnam’s strongest bank and placed at the 48th position on Asian Banker 500 – a list of the 500 strongest banks in Asia-Pacific in 2017.

Sports

-- More than 5,000 athletes from 44 countries participated in the 2017 Techcombank Ho Chi Minh City International Marathon on Sunday.

-- Vietnamese boxer Do Hong Ngoc clinched a historic silver medal at the 2017 AIBA Women’s Youth World Championships in India after losing 1-4 to host contender Shashi Chopra in the women's 57kg finale on Sunday.