VietNamNet Bridge – Deputy Transport Minister Nguyen Hong Truong spoke on the Government website chinhphu.vn about work that still needed to be done to complete 2,000km of highways by 2020.

Vietnam’s tennis prodigy Ly Hoang Nam has been named No. 11 seed in the boys’ singles event at the 2015 Roland Garros Junior French Championships with his current 14th ranking in the ITF Junior boys’ standings.  

The decline of the inflow of foreign direct investment in Vietnam in the past four months has worried many people but a series of billion-dollar projects that will come to Vietnam in the near future may help reverse FDI inflows.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Industry and Trade last week issued a new rule removing obstacles shouldered by auto importers since Circular 20/2010/TT-BCT, allowing them to enjoy simpler procedures in clearing vehicles

 VietNamNet Bridge – Biomass energy has emerged quickly in Vietnam, with interest in the energy source – which is ripe with potential - from both local business communities and the Government,

 Terracotta park opens in Hoi An with mini famous landmarks, European Literature Days in Vietnam narrows cultural gap, Old Quarter to host traditional music show, Book fair to promote culture of reading in capital

 Ha Noi's People's Committee has approved a proposal for constructing an underground parking lot of nearly 17,000sq.m in Thong Nhat Park.

 HCMC property outstanding loans down by 8.88%, Ministry approves new location for Vung Tau Airport, M&A generates new capital source for developers, HSBC: Weaker dong spurs exports, Savills Vietnam sets up advisory services unit

 TIME dotCom Berhad, a data-centric, fixed-line telecommunications provider based in Malaysia with a business reach across the Asia-Pacific region, has announced the acquisition of a 25% interest in a leading telecom based in Hanoi.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked ministries, sectors and localities to heighten their sense of responsibility towards rapid and sustainable poverty alleviation to turn the country into an industrialised society by 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang has presented the third-class Labor Order to a Vietnamese and British men, who discovered the Cave of Son Doong, in the central province of Quang Binh.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government has instructed the State Bank of Vietnam to work with relevant ministries to design a mechanism to lend money from national foreign exchange reserves to the government to serve spending.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The concert in May of the Hanoi Ensemble will take place at the Vietnam National Academy of Music Concert Hall, 77 Hao Nam, in Hanoi on the evening of May 9.

 Media caption Poland holds ceremony marking the end of World War TwoEvents are being held across Europe to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two on the continent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon’s iconic buildings appear nicely in hand-colored postcards issued during the French colonial period in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Korean Court, through Colliers International Property Company, has will be sold for 830 billion won ($770 million) to partners who want to buy the 72-storey building in Vietnam.

 The Hanoi People’s Court delivered a 24-month prison sentence to Nguyen Viet Hung, mastermind of a massive mobile spying incident that affected over 14,000 mobile subscribers, on May 7.

 Green paddy field, red hoa gao (Bombax ceiba) and white stork make Hanoi’s outskirt village My Duc more romantic and peaceful.

 SkyScanner, the world’s travel search engine, has ranked Vietnam first among the best street food cities in Asia.

  HCMC will launch 10 golf cart vehicles as part of a plan to offer city tours at a maximum ticket price of VND10,000 (46.2 U.S. cents) per person from early next month.

  Jasper Fforde, a British author of mystery and detective fiction genre who was listed in the best-selling works of the New York Times for his book The Eyre Affair (2001) will have exchanges with readers in Hanoi and HCMC on May 8-9.

 The 11th plenary session of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee (11th tenure) wrapped up Ha Noi on May 7 after four working days.

 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh signed a decision on May 7 to establish the Vietnam sports delegation competing in the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore from June 5 to 16.

 Coffee markets in Vietnam and Indonesia will flourish with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Vietnam Coffee- Cocoa Association (VICOFA) and the Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters and Industries (AEKI).

 The Vietnam men’s national football team jumped up one place to 124th in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for May, maintaining top position in Southeast Asia with 229 points.