May arrives with early summer rains starting to pour down, drawing water from the upper streams into the North-western region. Terraced rice fields take off their boring brown coat of winter to enter a new crop season.

 The Urban Drainage Co. (UDC) has launched an app that updates users on flooded areas, rain, and flood tides in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Experts said that regulations on the establishment of private universities should be stricter.

 Han Duc Long, who was wrongly imprisoned for 11 years, has asked for compensation of VND20 billion ($883,000).

 A young British man was found dead on Monday on a tourist boat in the area of Cat Ba Island in the northern city of Haiphong.

 The unbalanced sex ratio at birth is expanding quickly, particularly in the Red River Delta, stressed Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Viet Tien.

 Renowned artists from Japan, the Republic of Korea and Vietnam will participate in a chamber concert to be held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 28.

 The HCM City People’s Committee has instructed relevant authorities to develop software that will allow the public to obtain land-use plans on their mobile phones as a means to avoid the land “fever” that occurs periodically.

 The Viet Nam Petroleum Association (VINPA) has proposed to establish commercial barriers to protect local firms once import duties on fuel products are gradually reduced to zero per cent.

 Food producer KIDO Group reported on Tuesday that it has increased its holding in the Viet Nam Vegetable Oils Industry Corporation Joint Stock Company (VOC) from 24 per cent to 51 per cent.

 The Ministry of Public Security’s Police Investigation Agency has prosecuted Phi Thai Binh, former chairman of the Vinaconex board of directors, for violating construction regulations and causing serious consequences.

 The Prime Minister released a decision on Monday approving the development of the WHA Hemaraj 1 Industrial Park in Nghe An Province’s Southeast Economic Zone, local online newspaper baonghean.vn reported.

 There are some positive signs for rice exports after a period of lull, the Viet Nam Food Association has said.

Ly Hoang Nam and his Indian partner Vijay Sundar Prashanth won the first round match at the Singapore F1 Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday. 

 Cao Vo Ngoc Long of Viet Nam won a gold medal at the second Asian Youth Athletics Championships’ high jumping event in Thailand on Monday.

 The amateur group HCM City Supernova will compete at the final round of the K-pop Cover Dance Festival 2017 in Seoul on June 3.

 Vietnam grabbed their second win on May 23 at the Total Badminton World Federation Sudirman Cup, the World Team Championships, beating Canada 5-0 in the Group 2A in Australia.

 Vietnam won three silvers in the last day of the second Asian Youth Athletics Championships which closed on May 23 in Bangkok.

 A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing 

 Since entering the Vietnamese market in 2006, Lotte Mart Vietnam has never had profit.

 No Vietnamese citizens were injured at the bomb blast at a military-run hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 22. 

 The third Vietnam Days in Spain and Vietnamese Culture Space event kicked off at Circulo de Bellas Theatre in Madrid on May 23 (local time) under the chair of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

 The three best teams won sponsor packages from Facebook (FbStart) worth 80,000 USD each at the TOPICA AI Edtech Asia Hackathon 2017, the largest artificial intelligence contest in Southeast Asia.

 The Vietnamese film “Dao cua dan ngu cu” or The Island of Aliens was presented during the Vietnam Night at the Cannes Film Festival that ran from May 17-22 in France.

 Seventeen museums and relic sites in Hanoi have signed a memorandum of understanding on intensifying dissemination work to lure more visitors. The initiative aims to maximise each unit’s strength.