VietNamNet Bridge – The annual Bourbon Street Jazz & Blues Festival featuring music and Cajun food will be held at Cargo Event Space on May 28.

 The nationwide prostitution prevention programme for 2016-2020 was launched at a conference held by the National Committee for AIDS, Drugs and Prostitution Prevention and Control and the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs.

 Vietnam is short of recreational tourism products and is losing billions of dollars in revenue as a result, according to the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT).

 Cat Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hai Phong was put into service on May 12 after more than two years of upgrading under a plan approved by the Prime Minister in 2012.

 Vietnam top tennis player Ly Hoang Nam fell to Vishnu Vardhan of India on May 12 in the quarter-finals round of the India F3 Futures tennis tourney.

Ahead of the upcoming visit of President Obama later this month, Mr Phat held talks with Thomas J Vilsack, secretary of USDA, to discuss measures to bolster trade of traditional and non-traditional products in the sector.

 A captured Owston’s civet, one of the rarest civets in Vietnam, is being cared at the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Centre at the Cuc Phuong National Park of northern Ninh Binh province.

 The military-run telecommunication group Viettel officially provided SIM cards using 4G technology for new subscribers on May 12, a move to realise its plan to offer 4G services to a large extent.

 President Tran Dai Quang and other candidates hoping to be elected to the 14th National Assembly have engaged in a series of meetings with voters of Ho Chi Minh City, during which they promised utmost efforts to represent voters’ interests.

 Vietnam, as an ASEAN member, always supports the bloc’s efforts to intensify close cooperation with the European Union (EU) in all spheres, said head of the National Assembly’s Committee for External Relations Tran Van Hang.

 Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen has suggested public security forces of Vietnam and his country strengthen collaboration in combating crimes in the coming time.

 Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang received Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai city Han Zheng, who is leading a delegation to Vietnam, on May 12.

 Hundreds of circus performers from eight countries will participate in the International Circus Festival 2016 in Hue City from May 28 to June 4.

 The People’s Committee of the northern province of Thai Binh has instructed relevant agencies to correct the inaccurate information released recently regarding dead marine animals found at Tien Hai District’s Con Vanh Beach.

 The Hoa Binh Sugarcane and Sugar JSC will pay more than VNĐ1.4 billion (US$62,790 ) as compensation to the households that suffered from the mass fish deaths along the Bưởi River.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam tax authorities have said that they are considering whether Big C Vietnam has committed transfer pricing.

VietNamNet Bridge – A number of Vietnamese photographers have won grand prizes at international photography competitions in India and Turkey.

Landslide and subsidence have occurred repeatedly on a large area in the southern most province of Ca Mau. Experts said the phenomenon was caused by drought, which has lasted for several months in southern Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge - Many unfavorable conditions may make the 6.7 percent GDP growth rate target in 2016 unattainable, economists say. 

 An experimental AstraZeneca drug that failed last year as a treatment for a rare cancer of the eye has been awarded special "orphan" status in the United States for a type of thyroid cancer.

 India is home to four of the five cities in the world with the worst air pollution, the World Health Organization said on Thursday.

 The State Bank of Viet Nam (SBV) has entrusted relevant agencies to closely scrutinise the Panama Papers and act on the information in accordance with the country's legal regulations.

Resignation will transform into the forced acceptance of the de facto control of China in the East Sea and then the existence of the conventions on the law of the sea cannot do much to change the fact.

VietNamNet Bridge - A series of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have been sold at sky-high prices as they hold large land plots in advantageous positions, known as ‘golden land’. However, the sales might make the enterprises less attractive.

About 120km from Phan Thiet City in south-central Binh Thuan province, Phu Quy Island is seen as a suitable tourist site for holiday makers thanks to beautiful beaches and pristine natural landscapes.