Here are today’s leading news stories:

Politics

-- Vietnamese Minister of National Defense General Phan Van Giang and his Australian counterpart Peter Dutton held online talks on Monday to discuss measures to bolster bilateral defense ties, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

Society

-- It will remain sunny in southern Vietnam on Tuesday, with the highest temperature reaching 34 degrees Celsius, while showers and occasional thunderstorms will occur in the evening, the southern hydro-meteorological station reported, adding that high tide will continue inundating Ho Chi Minh City and some other localities.

-- Authorities in the southern province of Binh Phuoc have established three more makeshift COVID-19 hospitals, raising the province’s treatment capacity to 3,000 beds, to cope with rising cases over the past days.

-- The Ministry of Transport on Monday proposed that the prime minister allow the resumption of regular international flights in three phases, with the first starting in the first quarter of 2022.

-- Doctors in the central province of Quang Ngai have performed a surgery to remove over 0.5 kilograms of hair from the intestines of a seven-year-old girl who suffers from Rapunzel syndrome.

-- Three eighth graders drowned after having a swim in a water pit in the north-central province of Thanh Hoa on Sunday afternoon, local authorities confirmed on Monday.

Education

-- Ninth-grade students in Hanoi’s Ba Vi District, which is currently at low risk of COVID-19 transmission, were allowed to return to school on Monday following a five-month break due to an outbreak. 

Business

-- Denmark's Specter Real Estate A/S has begun construction of a garment factory in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang at a cost of VND253 billion (US$11 million), according to the Vietnam News Agency.

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