Despite risky business, corporations still issue bonds, More than 44,000 firms set up this year, VN finds difficulties enforcing environment protection policy: experts, Local retailers still ignoring traditional market channels

 Over one million people jobless in Q1, Hanoi’s Luong Yen Bus Station to close, Dangerous virus found in encephalitis outbreak in northern province, Hanoi restaurants want help on smoking ban, Kien Giang copes with natural disasters

 Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement will be bestowed on legendary Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut, according to the Los Angeles Press Club.

A Boeing official said the American airplane manufacture is committed to continued investment in Vietnam in the time to come.

 Vietnam will attend the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, in June in the US.

 May has seen a strong increase in visitors from five Western European countries whose citizens are exempt from Vietnam entry visa for a stay of no more than 15 days, showed statistics of the General Statistics Office (GSO).

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) appeared to be the most impacted by the restructuring plan for the debt-ridden Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), credit ratings agency Moody’s has said.

 Mass bleaching has destroyed as much as 35 percent of the coral on the northern and central Great Barrier Reef,

 Foreign investors registered to pump approximately US$10.16 billion into Viet Nam in the first five months of this year, surging 136 per cent from a year ago, statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment reveals.

The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications will issue regulations monthly to call on telecoms network providers to temporarily stop providing services with telephone number prefixes and mobile phone numbers that send spam messages.  

 The volume of unlicensed software used in Viet Nam has fallen by three percentage points to 78 per cent compared with 2013, according to the latest global software survey released by the Software Alliance (BSA).

Many free trade agreements (FTAs) and comprehensive partnership agreements have taken effect in the country. However, Vietnamese products bearing Vietnamese brands still find it difficult to conquer the world market.

 The Sembcorp Development company from Singapore has expressed intention to invest in a Vietnam-Singapore Innovative Park in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Japan’s ANA Holdings will buy 8.771 percent of Vietnam Airlines’ stake worth 109 million USD, becoming the national flag carrier’s strategic shareholder under a strategic cooperation deal signed in Tokyo on May 28.

 At least 700 migrants may have died at sea this past week in the busiest week of migrant crossings from Libya towards Italy this year,

 Internet freedom in Vietnam is an irrefutable truth, or in other words, Vietnam is an Internet-friendly country.

 Principal of Indonesia’s President University Chandra Setiawan expressed hope to welcome more Vietnamese students during a graduation ceremony in Jakarta on May 28.

 The country's unemployment rate slightly rose to 2.25 percent in the first quarter of this year as the local economy slowed down, according to the labor ministry's new data.

 Ho Chi Minh City is willing to cooperate with Lao localities, including Attapu province, in a more practical and effective way, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang has said.  

 Thai Princess Maha Chaktri Sirindhon paid a visit to the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok and attended a ceremony to launch a pictorial book on Vietnam’s beauty on May 28.

 Vietnam and Russia are discussing the building of two more Gepard-3.9 ships for the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN), the local news website Sputnik quoted the Russian Rostex Group as saying on May 29.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held talks in Tokyo on May 28 following a welcome ceremony for the Vietnamese PM.

VietNamNet Bridge - Billions of dong has been spent to save polluted canals in HCM City, but they are in danger of getting polluted again. 

 The killing of a gorilla at the Cincinnati Zoo after a 4-year-old boy tumbled into the ape's enclosure triggered outrage and questions about safety, but zoo officials called the decision to use lethal force a tough but necessary choice.

 Residents of Lane 78, on Duy Tan Street, Cau Giay precinct, Hanoi have built a 200m long ceramic mural, featuring a spot of sightseeing in the capital.