Here are the news stories you should not miss today, November 28:
Politics
-- The successful organization of the 2017 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Forum creates a new milestone in Vietnam’s international integration and demonstrates the country’s strategic vision toward the region, State President Tran Dai Quang said at a ceremony to review the APEC Year in Hanoi on Monday.
Society
-- The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee on Monday ordered a comprehensive inspection of non-public childcare facilities across the metropolis following a recent Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper article on child abuse at a center in District 12.
-- Nguyen Thi Thanh Thuy, 40, a popular local singer, was appointed deputy director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Culture and Sports for a five-year tenure on Monday.
-- Tran Thanh Toan, a judge at a district-level People’s Court in the Mekong Delta province of Ca Mau, has been dismissed from his post for asking for ‘coffee money’ from a litigant.
-- Police in the north-central province of Nghe An confirmed on Monday they had begun legal procedures against six suspects who had been caught chopping down 13 Fokienia trees at a nature reserve in early September.
-- A 347-year-old house in the northern province of Thai Binh was burned down after a fire broke out on Monday afternoon.
Business
-- According to the Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (VASEP), about 62 businesses have been committed to only buying seafood from legitimate fishing boats in an effort to fight illegal fishing.
-- Over 3,000 businesses in Vietnam are expected to participate in the Online Friday, the replication of the Black Friday shopping weekend in the U.S., on December 1.
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