Concerned individuals and organisations are offering their comments on a draft of 45 criteria for evaluating the quality of English textbooks for primary to high school education nationwide.

VietNamNet Bridge – The full name of a Vietnamese citizen should not have more than 25 alphabets, or have numbers or symbols, 

 Selected prints from novels by award winning German graphic artist and author Reinhard Kleist are on display at an exhibition at the Goethe Instiute in Hanoi which runs until the end of the month.

 The Ministry of Science and Technology and the French space agency held a workshop in Hanoi on May 12, enabling scientists to share experience and build cooperation programmes in outer space for sustainable and long-term mutual interests.

 VietNamNet Bridge - 43 Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) have arrived safely at the Carnivore and Pangolin Conservation Program - Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (SVW) after being rescued from animal traders in Hoa Binh province.

Central Quang Binh province is calling for investments in 34 local tourism projects between 2015 and 2020 with a combined estimated cost of 20 trillion VND (921.4 million USD).  

 Vietnam, France discuss stepping up cooperation, Vietnamese Embassy attends charitable fair in DPRK, Vietnam, San Marino share experience in education, culture, youth

 President Truong Tan Sang met with the President of the Czech Senate Milan Stech and President of the Chamber of Deputies Jan Hamacek in Prague on May 11.

 Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong voiced their delight at the countries’ flourishing strategic partnership, especially in politics.

 VietNamNet Bridge – I have no plan to travel to Binh Lap at first. Then, I see several young adults preparing for a motorbike journey. I simply decide to follow them to the breathtaking Binh Lap Beach,

VietNamNet Bridge - The project on protecting and conserving Dak Lak elephants kicked off in 2010, but more and more elephants have died since then.

 There has been an "alarming" rise in the number of working-age men and women having strokes, a charity has warned.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Korean consortiums, such as LG and Samsung, are stepping up investment in Vietnam and see this as an important market to bring about more job opportunities and boost production.

 Soft drink giant Suntory PepsiCo has been mired deeply in a dispute with tax authorities over the preferential treatment for its allegedly expanded project in Can Tho city.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Hanoi Education and Training Department at the May 7 meeting officially instructed secondary schools to enroll students based on their records shown on school reports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Jewellery items made of stone and animal bones have been unveiled in ancient tombs thousands of years old in the central province of Quang Nam.

HCMC opens first drug treatment center with Suboxone,  Health Ministry bans more substances in cosmetics products, Noi Bai Airport security receives EU RA3 accreditation, Site clearance destroys hundreds of graves in Danang

 Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev), the largest brewer in the world, is strengthening its commitment to the Vietnamese beer industry through launching a new brewery in Binh Duong province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Thanh Ha Park, the country’s largest terra cotta park in the ancient town of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province, has been put into operation.

 Sri Lanka has become the first nation in the world to comprehensively protect all of its mangrove forests.

 A New Zealand woman who was lost in a forest east of Wellington for 24 hours said she drank her own breast milk and covered herself in dirt to survive.

 A major earthquake has struck eastern Nepal, two weeks after more than 8,000 people were killed in a devastating quake.

  U.S. pop star Demi Lovato on Saturday staged a performance at the second Yan Beatfest 2015, one of the country’s largest outdoor music events, which was held on May 10 at Phu Tho Stadium in HCMC’s District 11.

 Vietnam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh performed exceptionally well helping his team beat Switzerland 4-1 during their first clash on May 11 at the biennial world mixed team badminton championship, the Sudirman Cup 2015, in Guangdong, China.

 Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam has asked vocational training centres nationwide to find jobs for rural labourers and improve their income, before organising vocational classes for them.