With the cold high pressure system weakening and moving east and a subtropical high pressure system crossing the south there will be a heat wave in the south, including HCM City, until May, according to the Southern Region Hydro-Meteorological Centre.

HCM City has sought the Government’s approval for a three-year trial in 2018-20 to insure cows raised for milk and meat.

Some traffic policemen in Hà Nội were suspended from work after they were caught taking money from violators, said Đào Vĩnh Thắng, head of Hà Nội’s Traffic Police Division on Tuesday.

Three heroin traffickers were caught red-handed on Tuesday by Việt Nam and Laos’ criminal police in a province in Laos.

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.