VietNamNet Bridge – Building a platform for partnership on the conservation of biodiversity is urgently needed to accelerate collaboration among ministries, sectors and stakeholders,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The prolonged drought and saltwater have damaged more than 81,000 hectares of shrimp breeding areas in eight Mekong provinces,

 Vietnam’s Nguyen Quoc Nguyen finished third at the World Cup 3-Cushion Carom Billiards, which closed in HCM City on May 22.

 Ly Hoang Nam rose to No 886 in the ATP’s latest world rankings, released on May 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Bourbon Street Jazz and Blues Festival will be held on Saturday this week at Cargo Bar in District 4, HCMC to raise funds for manufacturing wheelchairs for the disabled in Vietnam.

US President Barack Obama last night spent one hour having dinner at Bun Cha Huong Lien - a local restaurant serving the famous Vietnamese roasted pork with vermicelli in Le Van Huu Street, Hanoi.

Experts from the Bach Khoa Anti-virus Center (BKAV), the leading network security firm in Vietnam, have found signs showing that the tool used to jailbreak iPhone is capable of collecting information from iCloud accounts. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The effects of Circular 30 have caused primary school teachers to feel busier because they now have to spend time writing comments on students’ work, while students tend to be lazier.

VietNamNet Bridge - Though saline intrusion in Mekong River Delta has eased, helping farmers cultivate the summer-autumn crop, 1 million people still lack clean water for daily life.

VietNamNet Bridge - The trade surplus in the first quarter of 2016 alone was five times higher than that of the entire year of 2012. But this could be bad news.

 Vietnam and Mozambique can cooperate in several transportation areas as the two countries share similarities in geography and own a four-decade traditional solidarity and friendship, said Transport Minister Truong Quang Nghia.

 Major press agencies around the world on May 23 carried stories about US President Barack Obama’s announcement of fully lifting the embargo on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam on the occasion of his ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country.

Thailand’s Central Group and its Vietnamese partner Nguyen Kim Group are working on a plan to open seven new Big C supermarkets this year after they completed procedures to take over all Big C assets in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Con Son relic site in Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province is closely associated with many well-known Vietnamese figures such as Tran Nguyen Dan, Huyen Quang and Nguyen Trai, a national hero and world cultural figure.

Often critisised as lack of professional procedure, the artists and art dealers in the country are trying to make art autions more professional. The first art auction in Viet Nam with five art works will take place in Ha Noi on May 28.

One more Tan Son Nhat airport bus service launched, Three batches of soft drinks with high level of lead removed from market, Vietnam launches nutrition days 2016, Health Ministry denies rumor of vaccination at home

VietNamNet Bridge - One of the issues to be discussed during US President Obama’s visit to Vietnam on May 23-25 is the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). 

Despite the quantitative and qualitative growth of US investment into Vietnam, much remains to be done to make the best use of this capital source. Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung spoke about this issue.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ba Chua Xu Festival, a national intangible cultural heritage held in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta province of An Giang, will take place at Ba Chua Xu Temple in Chau Doc Town on May 29 – June 2.

While banks have been able to control their non-performing loans ratio well below the 3 per cent threshold, the potentially irrecoverable debt fraction has, conversely, edged up among local banks.