Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung asked ministries, sectors and localities to heighten their sense of responsibility towards rapid and sustainable poverty alleviation to turn the country into an industrialised society by 2020.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang has presented the third-class Labor Order to a Vietnamese and British men, who discovered the Cave of Son Doong, in the central province of Quang Binh.

VietNamNet Bridge - The government has instructed the State Bank of Vietnam to work with relevant ministries to design a mechanism to lend money from national foreign exchange reserves to the government to serve spending.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The concert in May of the Hanoi Ensemble will take place at the Vietnam National Academy of Music Concert Hall, 77 Hao Nam, in Hanoi on the evening of May 9.

 Media caption Poland holds ceremony marking the end of World War TwoEvents are being held across Europe to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War Two on the continent.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon’s iconic buildings appear nicely in hand-colored postcards issued during the French colonial period in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Korean Court, through Colliers International Property Company, has will be sold for 830 billion won ($770 million) to partners who want to buy the 72-storey building in Vietnam.

 The Hanoi People’s Court delivered a 24-month prison sentence to Nguyen Viet Hung, mastermind of a massive mobile spying incident that affected over 14,000 mobile subscribers, on May 7.

 Green paddy field, red hoa gao (Bombax ceiba) and white stork make Hanoi’s outskirt village My Duc more romantic and peaceful.

 SkyScanner, the world’s travel search engine, has ranked Vietnam first among the best street food cities in Asia.

  HCMC will launch 10 golf cart vehicles as part of a plan to offer city tours at a maximum ticket price of VND10,000 (46.2 U.S. cents) per person from early next month.

  Jasper Fforde, a British author of mystery and detective fiction genre who was listed in the best-selling works of the New York Times for his book The Eyre Affair (2001) will have exchanges with readers in Hanoi and HCMC on May 8-9.

 The 11th plenary session of the Communist Party of Viet Nam Central Committee (11th tenure) wrapped up Ha Noi on May 7 after four working days.

 Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Tuan Anh signed a decision on May 7 to establish the Vietnam sports delegation competing in the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Singapore from June 5 to 16.

 Coffee markets in Vietnam and Indonesia will flourish with the recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Vietnam Coffee- Cocoa Association (VICOFA) and the Association of Indonesian Coffee Exporters and Industries (AEKI).

 The Vietnam men’s national football team jumped up one place to 124th in the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking for May, maintaining top position in Southeast Asia with 229 points.

 A new film Toi thay hoa vang tren co xanh (I see yellow flowers on the green grass), directed by Vietnamese American director Victor Vu, will be screened at the 68th annual Cannes Film Festival in May.

 David Cameron says he hopes to govern for all of the UK as a BBC forecast gives the Tories 329 seats - enough to form a slender majority in the Commons.

 American online news aggregator and blog Huffington Post has ranked Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park among 10 places you wouldn't have travelled to 10 years ago but are popular today with visitors.

 Noted Israeli writer Etgar Keret launched one of his latest best-selling short story collections in HCM City on May 6.