VietNamNet Bridge – Sweden and Israel are the final participants of the FIVB Tuan Chau Ha Long Open after winning their qualification matches yesterday in Quang Ninh Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Three Vietnamese players crashed out of the Viet Nam F2 Futures tennis tournament held in Hue yesterday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Binh Duong Television Cycling Tournament, Hoa Sen Plastic Pipe Cup, is scheduled to start on May 24.

 The fast-changing hospitality industry is offering many opportunities for developers to expand the number of rooms and market their properties to future new categories of guests like millennials, according to hospitality experts.

 The Ha Noi Stock Exchange (HNX) will hold three auctions in May to sell shares of Sai Gon Postel Corp, Viet Nam Apatite Phosphorus Joint Stock Company and Viet Nam Aviation Corporation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tragic inferno swept through Hoa Phat Steel Complex in the province of Hai Duong on Monday, killing three workers and injuring one.

 The Friends of Vietnam Heritage on May 20 will host a full day study tour to Dong Cac Village in Thai Binh Province (about 130km from Ha Noi). 

 The Erato School of Music & Performing Arts will host a Guitar Concert featuring Vincent Fillatreau from 8pm to 10pm on May 24 at 107 Ton Dat Tien Street, District 7.

 The 3rd European Book Days event will be held from May 12 to 20 at HCM City Book Street, Nguyen Van Binh, District 1.

 The experimental music centre Phu Sa Lab continues to present their successful performance Bamboo Talk this month.

 Stormy weather hit the mountainous Thuong Xuan District in the central province of Thanh Hoa on Tuesday evening, causing the collapse of an electrical pole and a 65-m-high base transceiver station (BTS).

 A potential new cure for baldness has been discovered using a drug originally intended to treat osteoporosis.

 Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Ngoan hopes to change her medal colour at the 17th Asian Karate Federation Cadet, Junior & U-21 Championships, which will be held in Okinawa, Japan, from May 10 to May 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City is still at risk of being flooded during the rainy season, as all of the drainage canals are blocked with trash.

 The US delegation will investigate the production process of tra fish from May 14-25, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.

 An international workshop themed “Science for Development” opened at the International Center for Interdisciplinary Science and Education in Quy Nhon city, the central province of Binh Dinh on May 9.

 The 10th International Environment and Energy Technology Exhibition (ENTECH Vietnam 2018) kicked off at Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on May 9.

 The 12th-tenure Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) elected two additional members to the Central Committee Secretariat on May 9, the third day of its 7th plenary meeting. 

Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army and Deputy Defence Minister Sen. Lieut. Gen Phan Van Giang hosted a reception in Hanoi on May 9 for Deputy Commander of the US Pacific Command Bryan Fenton. 

 Border guards of the central province of Thanh Hoa announced on May 9 that they caught two persons red-handed for carrying 34,000 meth pills from the Lao province of Houaphan to Vietnam.