Students from the English linguistics and literature faculty of the HCMC Open University will stage dramas adapted from American literary works in English at the HCMC Drama Theater in downtown HCMC on May 20 and 27. 

Cannes' promenade was pretty enough before authorities installed a row of 400 giant flowerpots. But the potted plants aren't there to look good - they are a security measure to avert terrorist attacks during the film festival.

 Bkav Corporation, the largest internet security firm in Vietnam, yesterday gratis issued a device named Wanna Crypt0r to check WannaCry ransomware – which has been wreaking havoc across the world.

 Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have made the decision to scrap plans for constructing 17 small and medium hydropower plants with a total capacity of 27.4 megawatts.

 “The Internet of Things: Principles - Practices - Solutions” conference, chaired by Dr. Timothy Chou in Hanoi on May 4, revealed new opportunities for many enterprises in Vietnam.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung urged has localities in the Mekong Delta to devise measures to cope with landslides in the context of climate change. 

 Vietnam and China have reached important common awareness on major directions and measures to enhance mutual political trust, friendship, and cooperation as well as maintain peace and stable and healthy development of bilateral relations.

 Vietnamese steel production and sales growth are slowing, while construction steel consumption has decreased, the Viet Nam Steel Association (VSA) announced.

 The Vietnamese game industry is expected to earn annual revenue of US$1 billion within 10 years, according to experts.

The electricity industry must improve its management and technology to reduce losses in the transmission grid as well as eradicate power stealing, which are very serious in rural and remote areas.

 Vietnam supports cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese localities, said Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh at her meeting with leaders of Fukuoka prefecture and Kitakyushu city on May 15.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Maintaining law and order is necessary for Viet Nam to achieve good socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bottom trawling is a particularly destructive method of fishing, in which huge weighted nets are dragged on the sea floor, catching everything in their path.

The Mekong Delta will disappear in the next several decades once Pak Beng Dam and another 10 planned hydropower dams are built on the Mekong River in Laos and Cambodia, 

The Viet Nam Expressway Corporation (VEC) yesterday began a new system of collecting tolls using smart cards on the HCM City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway, which connects HCM City and Dong Nai Province. 

 VietNamNet Bridge – Fashion designer Do Manh Cuong will organise the show Life in Colour on Phu Quoc Island on May 27 to celebrate the last 10 years of his career.

 The stretch of road crossing a primeval forest to Tri An Lake in Vinh Cuu district, Dong Nai province is considered the most beautiful for trekkers to discover in the southeast region.

 Hard Rock Cafe, Cafe Hi-End, or Acoustic Cafe in Ho Chi Minh City are regarded as the right places to savour coffee with live music.

The WB has approved US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three autonomous universities and improve the management of Vietnam’s higher education system.

Nguyen Van Thiet had dreamed of winning the ASEAN Skills Competition, but when his parents insisted that he apply for university, his hopes were dashed.