Preparations for the upcoming general elections have gone according to plan and on schedule at all central agencies, provinces and cities, the Ministry of Home Affairs reported at a meeting in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong on May 9. 

Le Thi Quynh Trang, general director of Multimedia JSC, organised fashion programmes with the hope of transforming the face of Vietnam's fashion industry. Trang spoke about Vietnam's potential in fashion.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While pollution along the central coast has not been solved, several similar cases of mass fish death have occurred in the central and southern region.

VietNamNet Bridge - Lai Chau, a poor province with more than a half of the residents listed as poor, plans to build an airport with total investment capital of VND8 trillion.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Many US investors are looking to pour huge capital into the new urban area of Thu Thiem, in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City to turn this area into a new financial center of Southeast Asia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ultraviolet (UV) radiation index in much of the southern region, including HCM City, will continue to be at 10-12 high-risk level until the end of this week, according to a meteorologist.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Though many projects to restore lakes in Ha Noi have been carried out, some lakes are again reported to have become polluted.

 A stomach bug causing vomiting and diarrhea has spread to more than a quarter of the 919 passengers aboard a British cruise ship, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) said, as the ship docked in Maine over the weekend.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Hanoians will have the opportunity to enjoy traditional Japanese dance music to give thanks for a plentiful harvest during a performance this Sunday, May 15.

 Canadian officials showed some optimism on Sunday they were beginning to get on top of the country's most destructive wildfire in recent memory, as favorable weather helped firefighters and winds took the flames southeast,

According to Bloomberg, the amount of capital out of China in 2015 was about $1,000 billion, compared to only $134.3 billion in 2014. However, there is no sign that Vietnam has attracted some of that capital.

 Across the U.S. Farm Belt, top grain handlers have banned genetically modified crops that are not approved in all major overseas markets, shaking up a decades-old system that used the world's biggest exporting country as a launchpad for new seeds

 VietNamNet Bridge – The National Park of Ba Vi, Hanoi, is very beautiful in early summer.

 Honda Motor Co on Monday said it had not made any announcements on additional air bags recalls after the Nikkei newspaper reported it would recall at least 20 million more of the safety devices made by Takata Corp

 VietNamNet Bridge - Two Da Nang citizens who assisted foreign travelers in distress have received thank-you letters from the city Vice Chair Dang Viet Dung.

An artwork by famous Vietnamese painter Vu Cao Dam (1908-2000) was advertised on the website of Auction.fr for an auction entitled “Impression, modernism and contemporariness” scheduled in Paris on May 12. Many experts said that it is a fake.

 Ninh Thuan signs yet another renewable power project, Foreign, domestic shareholders fight over control at Eximbank, Real estate sector M&As on the rise, Reforms needed to achieve 6.7% growth

 A road to Da Sy village on the outskirts of Hanoi seemingly become more splendid and romantic with blooming Diep (peacock) flowers, making it an ideal place for people who like to take photographs.

 The Ministry of Health has introduced several new vaccines in the National Expanded Programme on Immunisation in an effort to improve the efficiency of disease prevention.

 The Republic of Korea (RoK) on May 7 confirmed that its fourth national to contract the Zika virus had recently returned from a trip to Vietnam.