What you need to know today in Vietnam:

Politics

-- Chairman of Vietnam's lawmaking National Assembly Tran Thanh Man held talks with President of the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba Esteban Lazo Hernandez in Hanoi on Saturday. The top Cuban legislator is paying a visit to Vietnam through Sunday.

Society

-- The Phan Rang-Thap Cham city sub-project – part of the Coastal Cities Sustainable Environment Project, which carries a price tag of US$97.9 million funded by the World Bank Group, was inaugurated in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan on Saturday with improved infrastructure works that can benefit 69,000 local residents, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

-- Doctors at Children's Hospital 2 in Ho Chi Minh City have performed a surgery to remove more than 100 roundworms whose scientific name is Ascaris lumbricoides from the small intestine of a 2.5-year-old boy.

-- A heavy rain, paired with high tides, inundated the majority of Bac Lieu City in the namesake southern province on Saturday.

-- Vietnam is currently the frontrunner in Southeast Asia for organ transplants, with over 1,000 procedures per year, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, chairwoman of the Vietnam Tissue and Organ Donation Advocacy Association, said at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday.

-- Hundreds of residents were evacuated to safety as a fire broke out at an apartment building in District 7, Ho Chi Minh City on Saturday evening. The incident caused no human casualties. 

Lifestyle

-- The administration in Dak Lak Province, located in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, held an exhibition of 120 photos featuring the daily life and culture of people in the region, attracting many local residents and tourists, especially foreigners.

World News

-- “A 5.48 metre (18 ft) Australian crocodile that held the world record as the largest crocodile in captivity has died,” Reuters reported, citing a wildlife sanctuary. He was thought to be more than 110 years old.

-- “The deadliest flash floods in Spain's modern history have killed at least 211 people and dozens were still unaccounted for, four days after torrential rains swept the eastern region of Valencia,” Reuters quoted Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez as saying.

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