Several families in a lane in Hanoi have hired artists to decorate their old walls with a mural.

 It has been proposed that companies which produce and import alcohol and beer products should pay VND360 billion (USD16.36 million) annually for health services.

 Minister of Public Security To Lam urged agencies and localities to take tougher measures to prevent and control cyber attacks following the on-going WannaCry virus attack.

 Police in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh on Thursday prosecuted a Chinese man for trafficking over 1 kilo of ketamine into Vietnam.

 Sustainable productivity is the only way for the world to deal with changing business models driven by fast changing technologies, according to the Asian Productivity Organisation.

 A month after launching 4G services Viettel is offering a 4G wifi router, D6606, at a price of VND1.3 million (US$56).

 In light of recent widely reported cases of banking fraud related to ATM transactions, the State Bank of Viet Nam has advised the public to remain calm and adhere to banks’ regulations, while urging the banks to plug security holes.

Viet Nam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade’s (VietinBank) board of directors has appointed Hiroshi Yamaguchi as the new deputy general director of the bank from May 15.

 The ten members of the ASEAN Council on Petroleum (ASCOPE) agreed this week to boost cooperation.

 Fitch Ratings has revised its outlook on Viet Nam’s long-term foreign and local currency issuer default ratings (IDR) to Positive from Stable and affirmed the ratings at "BB-."

 The European Union (EU) will send a delegation to Viet Nam in June to inspect the country’s food safety control system for seafood products exported to the EU.

 Trade Counsellor of the Viet Nam Embassy to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has warned Vietnamese fruit export firms not to have transactions with 13 import companies in the UAE.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Social Insurance (VSI) has agreed to share with the Ministry of Health (MoH) personal database of more than 24 million households.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Initial statistics from the 30 districts and townships of the capital city show that Hanoians are taller by two to three cm compared to 10 years ago.

Vietnam’s coffee productivity is three times higher than the average level globally, but the profit that coffee growers pocket is low because of poor competitiveness and unstable output.

 Head coach Hidehiro Irisawa of the Vietnamese national women’s volleyball team has invited veteran player Nguyen Thi Ngoc Hoa to be his assistant, according to the Viet Nam Volleyball Federation.

 There are significant opportunities for Vietnamese firms to invest in the beauty sector in Cambodia and Myanmar as well as export beauty products to the two markets, participants at an Ho Chi Minh City conference said on May 18.

President Tran Dai Quang encouraged US businesses to make investment in Vietnam’s energy, oil and gas, infrastructure, finance-banking, education and training, and tourism while addressing a workshop today.

 Ministers from 11 countries joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) are scheduled to gather in Hanoi on May 21, with Japan pushing for the free trade pact to be put into force as soon as possible without the US.

 Twenty young Vietnamese and Australian leaders in different fields exchanged ideas to spur socio-economic development in their respective countries at a forum in Sydney from May 15-18.