The leaders of the Vietnam Football Federation (VFF), the National Coaching Council, and head coach Park Hang-seo sat down for a meeting on May 7 to finalise their plans and preparations for the upcoming tournaments.

Numerous activities of the event entitled “A Touch of Belgium” will take place at the King Ly Thai To monument in Hanoi on May 12.

Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh hosted a reception in Hanoi on May 8 for the Director of Israel’s Defence Export and Cooperation Agency Mishel Ben Baruch.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and Australia’s Department of Agriculture and Water Resources signed off on two agreements at the second high-level agricultural policy dialogue in Canberra on May 8.

 Two Nobel laureates, theoretical physicist Gerard ‘t Hooft and economist Finn Kydland, will visit Vietnam to attend a conference on science and development scheduled for May 9-10 in the central city of Quy Nhon.

Coconuts can be found anywhere and everywhere in Vietnam. The fruit’s versatility is renowned. Juice, candy, rice and meat dishes are all immensely popular, but only in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre 

The annual Met Gala is the fashion industry's night of nights. The star-studded party raises money for the Metropolitan Museum of Arts Costume Institute - but is also basically a chance for extremely beautiful people to wear

 The winner of Vietlott’s Jackpot 1 prize worth up to VND303.89 billion (USD13 million) has not come to the company to receive the money.

 Vietnam and China on May 8 jointly released aquatic resources into the Tonkin Gulf at the border gate of the cross-border Bac Luan (Beilun) River in Dongxing city, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.

 US Science Envoy Dr Margaret Leinen has raised concerns about plastic waste as Vietnam is among top five countries that generate most plastic waste in the ocean.

 Eximbank recently returning almost all the lost money in the Nghe An case opens opportunities for other victims, who were appropriated millions of dollar from saving books at this bank.

As land trading at the three special administrative-economic zones (SAEZs) became too hot, the host provinces recently ordered suspending all local land transactions in order to curb possible illegal activities. 

 While the land plot fever is raging across Hanoi, more than a few realty projects and plots are left fallow.

The great success of Vietjet Air, which was smaller and less experienced than Vietnam Airlines and other rivals when it joined the aviation market, has inspired newcomers like Bamboo Airways.

 US President Donald Trump says he will withdraw the US from an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Iran.

 The banking industry is drastically restructuring credit institutions (CIs) in combination with bad debt settlement to ensure their safe, healthy and sustained growth.

 Ten out of 12 loss-making projects under the management of the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) have continued falling in the negative numbers, the ministry’s report said.

 Vietnamese air freight costs are much higher than the regional average and this is believed to be one of the main reasons hindering Viet Nam’s fruit exports.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of people who die of hypertension each year in Vietnam is 10 times higher than the number of victims killed by traffic accidents, 

 Despite having increased at a relatively fast pace in recent years, Viet Nam’s labour productivity remained in the lowest group in East Asia with scores in backbone sectors of the economy even falling behind Cambodia, a report found on Tuesday.