Read what is in the news today.

Society

-- Police in Vung Tau City in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau on Friday arrested four Vietnamese people involving in a drug trafficking ring that is disguised as a wooden furniture business.

-- Vietnam’s National Cancer Hospital (K Hospital) and South Korea’s Asan Hospital will work together in developing an international-standard oncology treatment center in Hanoi following a memorandum of understanding signed in the Vietnamese capital city on Friday morning.

-- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Huynh Thi Lan Huong, deputy director general of the Vietnam Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Climate Change under the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, has given a counter opinion on a study published on Tuesday by the journal Nature Communications which forecasts major coastal areas in the world including Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region could be submerged over the next 30 years, affirming it is insufficient in terms of scientific basis and is only based on extreme assumptions.

Education

-- For the first time, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue will organize an exam to recruit a principal for a high school in the locality on November 29.

-- The Hanoi University of Science and Technology has appointed a new vice president, Associate Professor Huynh Quyet Thang, for the 2015-2020 term.

Business

-- Apple’s genuine iPhone 11 products have been officially distributed in Vietnam’s mobile retail chains from Friday.

-- The Investigation Police Department on Economic, Corruption Crimes and Smuggling under the Ministry of Public Security has warned people to beware of investment scams by PayAsian, a digital wallet company headquartered in Phu Nhuan District, Ho Chi Minh City.

-- A family-run business selling fresh food in Phu Rieng District in the southern province of Binh Phuoc has been caught with 790 kilograms of dirty, smelly pork, the provincial police said on Friday.

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