Leaders from Hanoi, Hai Phong, and Da Nang cities and Thua Thien Hue province have joined foreign mayors, officials and executives of corporations in the World Cities Summit Mayors Forum held in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, China from May 17-20.

 A southern cuisine festival will be held from May 24-28 at Dam Sen Cultural Park, District 11 in Ho Chi Minh City with various activities.

 The Vietnam Festival 2017 will take place at Yoyogi Park in Tokyo, Japan on June 10-11, heard a press conference in Tokyo on May 17.

 A conference on innovative business models in the context of the fourth industrial revolution was held in Ho Chi Minh City on May 18, with experts from Vietnam and the Republic of Korea (RoK) attending.

 Olympian Hoang Xuan Vinh will take part in the International Shooting Sport Federation World Cup’s men’s 50m pistol event in Germany today.

 Representatives from APEC member economies gathered at a symposium in Hanoi on May 19 to share experience in promoting trade and innovation and explore activities that APEC can undertake to boost innovative growth in the region.

 UK military officers have pledged to facilitate the transfer of a level-2 field hospital in South Sudan to Vietnamese control while meeting with Vietnamese officers who are visiting the UK from May 16-20.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vegetarianism is not about religion or something complicated, vegetarianism is about keeping fit and staying healthy. These days vegetarian meals can be a fine culinary art. 

Ha Noi’s People’s Committee has proposed that the Government choose a Japanese company as a consultant contractor to implement the planning of underground parking stations in the city.

 Cutting between black and white and color, silent and talkie, "Wonderstruck" was warmly received at Cannes on Thursday where it is already hotly tipped for awards.

 Four automakers agreed to a $553 million settlement to address class-action economic loss claims covering owners of nearly 16 million recalled vehicles with potentially defective Takata airbag inflators,

 Two-thirds of those caught up in the past week's global ransomware attack were running Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system without the latest security updates,

The National Committee for Climate Change needs to enhance its international co-operation and learn from other countries’ experience to promote climate change response in Viet Nam, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Retail companies with responsible forest products sourcing policies are seeing numerous tangible business benefits, demonstrating that sustainability makes business sense,

VietNamNet Bridge - Well-known Vietnamese names in the food industry have fallen into the hands of the world’s largest conglomerates.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A smart city is an ideal place for people to live and work, but it is also a sustainable combination of robust economics, civil society and clean environment, 

 VietNamNet Bridge –  A special performance featuring Vietnamese contemporary music and dance works will be held at the HCM City Opera House on May 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Head coach Hidehiro Irisawa of the Vietnamese national women’s volleyball team has invited veteran player Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa to be his assistant, 

 The European Commission will propose extending by 10 years its approval for weed-killer glyphosate, used in Monsanto's Roundup, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In 1969 President Ho Chi Minh offered a French peace activist a woolen kepi hat on a cold evening. The gesture has become part of the lore surrounding the late leader.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam tied 1-1 with Indonesia in the second match of Group B of the 2017 Asian Football Confederation (AFC) U-20 Futsal Championship Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. 

European Union antitrust regulators fined Facebook 110 million euros on Thursday for giving misleading information during a vetting of its deal to acquire messaging service WhatsApp in 2014.

It is no wonder tourists when taking a leisure walk around Ho Thi Ky flower market can easily find a special market which is the gathering place for Vietnamese people of Cambodian descent and dedicated to sell mainly Cambodian specialties. 

 General Motors Co plans to quit selling vehicles in India by the end of this year and will sell operations in South Africa, the latest steps in a strategy of focusing cash and engineering effort on fewer, more profitable markets.

VietNamNet Bridge - Mekong Delta farmers experienced the worst dry season in history in 2016, and are now  facing another severe season in 2017.