Ly Hoang Nam and his Indian partner Vijay Sundar Prashanth won the first round match at the Singapore F1 Men’s Futures tennis tournament yesterday. 

 Cao Vo Ngoc Long of Viet Nam won a gold medal at the second Asian Youth Athletics Championships’ high jumping event in Thailand on Monday.

 The amateur group HCM City Supernova will compete at the final round of the K-pop Cover Dance Festival 2017 in Seoul on June 3.

 Vietnam grabbed their second win on May 23 at the Total Badminton World Federation Sudirman Cup, the World Team Championships, beating Canada 5-0 in the Group 2A in Australia.

 Vietnam won three silvers in the last day of the second Asian Youth Athletics Championships which closed on May 23 in Bangkok.

 A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday, a major feather in the cap for the firm's AI ambitions as it looks to woo Beijing 

 Since entering the Vietnamese market in 2006, Lotte Mart Vietnam has never had profit.

 No Vietnamese citizens were injured at the bomb blast at a military-run hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, on May 22. 

 The third Vietnam Days in Spain and Vietnamese Culture Space event kicked off at Circulo de Bellas Theatre in Madrid on May 23 (local time) under the chair of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh.

 The three best teams won sponsor packages from Facebook (FbStart) worth 80,000 USD each at the TOPICA AI Edtech Asia Hackathon 2017, the largest artificial intelligence contest in Southeast Asia.

 The Vietnamese film “Dao cua dan ngu cu” or The Island of Aliens was presented during the Vietnam Night at the Cannes Film Festival that ran from May 17-22 in France.

 Seventeen museums and relic sites in Hanoi have signed a memorandum of understanding on intensifying dissemination work to lure more visitors. The initiative aims to maximise each unit’s strength.

 Vietnam welcomes technical support from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) via official development assistance and preferential loans.

 Indonesia sent 40 Vietnamese fishermen back to Vietnam from Soekarno Hatta international airport in Jakarta on May 23.

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a message of condolence to his UK counterpart Theresa May over the explosion in Manchester on May 22 that caused many deaths and injuries.

 Phuc Giang School woodblocks, a UNESCO Documentary Heritage by Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific, are on show at an exhibition in Hanoi that opened on May 23.

Vietnam and Bangladesh have signed a document extending the two countries’ MoU on rice trade that will allow Vietnam to sell up to 1 million tonnes of rice to Bangladesh each year. 

 A Vietnam film week is underway in Spain from May 23-25 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between Vietnam and Spain, according to the Cinematography Department under the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism. 

 Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will pay an official visit to the United States of America from May 29 to May 31, the Foreign Ministry announced on May 23.

 ASEAN and its partner countries discussed cooperation orientations during their meetings in Manila, the Philippines on May 23.