Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will sign the Joint Statement on establishing the Việt Nam – Australia Strategic Partnership during the former's visit to Australia, creating the political and legal framework for the two countries' relations to develop in the coming time.

HCM City’s People’s Committee targets having more than 80 per cent of local residents and organisations satisfied with public administrative services by 2020.

More than 400 students will take part in a national science and technology contest for secondary schools and high schools in the southern region from March 17 to 20 in the Central Highlands city of Đà Lạt.

For nearly 30 years, researchers at the Faculty of Tissue, Embryo and Genetics under Phạm Ngọc Thạch Medical University have been making use of amniotic membrane, which is commonly treated as medical waste and discarded. Under their hands, it has been processed to heal wounds and corneal damage instead.

Meningococcal disease is not new, but recently, drug-resistance in children with meningitis has been increasing, doctors in HCM City have warned.

 A 14 day-old baby infected with a rare intestinal disease is now in stable condition after the surgery, doctors of the Paediatrics Hospital of southern Đồng Nai Province said on Monday.

Traditional treatment methods are not a solution to cure chickenpox, doctor Trương Hữu Khanh, head of HCM City’s Paediatrics Hospital No.1’s infectious and nervous diseases department said.

A Hepatitis A outbreak in Drung village, Yang Tao Commune, Lắk District of Central Highlands province of Đắk Lắk has been so far controlled, the local medical agency said.

The central city’s people’s committee has asked the local public security department to investigate an assault on a reporter at a bar in the city’s downtown on Sunday. The investigation agency must report on the case before Wednesday.