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.

 National Assembly deputies debated the draft bill on supporting small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) during the ongoing third meeting on May 23.

 Spain regards Vietnam as an important partner in Asia-Pacific, King of Spain Felipe VI told visiting Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh at a meeting in Madrid on May 23.

 Cooperation between Vietnam and Spain, on the basis of the strategic partnership towards the future set up in 2009, has developed soundly over the past years, the two countries’ top diplomats have said.

Vietnamese people have long taken pride in their banh mi, a dish named as one of the best street foods in the world by CNN (American Cable News Network), and listed in the Oxford English dictionary 

The Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) has introduced two new tourism products featuring the Ha Noi Opera House to travel agencies and media outlets for review,

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