Salination-hit Mekong Delta still struggling, Popular Thai actor comes to Vietnam to promote tourism, Maps, documents on Hoang Sa, Truong Sa on display in Tay Ninh, Quang Tri supports farmers affected by mass fish deaths

VietNamNet Bridge - The Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Le Minh Hung, as soon as he took office, released two documents with instructions to settle commercial banks’ debts.

 The process of restructuring commercial banks in Viet Nam mostly focusses on mitigating negative effects and not on promoting positive factors, one of which is the increase in private ownership.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A multi-language color illustration book on the Tale of Luc Van Tien, an epic poem written in nom (the old Vietnamese script) by famous poet Nguyen Dinh Chieu in the 19th century,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Street food, for which Viet Nam is rightly famous, can be a financial boon to local communities, helping many people, especially the poor, increase their income.

Workshop on report from Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research discusses difficulties in meeting socioeconomic targets and identifies possible solutions.

 Irdeto, a world leader in digital platform security, has been selected by K+ to provide end-to-end multiscreen support for the launch of its first commercial over-the-top (OTT) service.

  The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Vietnamese State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a Russian-Vietnamese investment platform on May 16.

 The Novaland Group on May 18 began work on a lake covering an area of 3.6 hectares in District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Relevant agencies must get well prepared for receiving the remainder of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA-17) fund allocated for Vietnam in the 2014-2017 period, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The French School of the Far East (EFEO), an institute dedicated to studying Asian societies, gave an Honourary Doctorate degree to Historical Professor Phan Huy Le.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Le Thi Thu Ba, Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, visited Canada from May 13-17, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two countries’ judiciaries.

 The results of the election of deputies to the 14th National Assembly (NA) will be announced within 20 days after election day (May 22), according to the National Election Council (NEC) Office.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Contributing VND558 billion (nearly $30 million) to Honda, Toyota or Ford Vietnam many years ago, VEAM still earn hundreds of million of USD of profit each year

 The U.S. Senate on Tuesday cleared the way for approval of $1.1 billion in immediate funds to battle the Zika virus that is linked to birth defects, well above what is in legislation pending in the House of Representatives.

Tens of tons of dead fish have been taken out of HCM City’s Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal after the downpour on the afternoon of May 16. The authorities said the fish had been killed by toxic waste, which flowed into the canal via rainwater.

VietNamNet Bridge - On the way to apply for a job, two hungry young men who were out of money stopped at a grocery to pretend to buy bread and other food and then ran away.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photos of a wedding of two sets of twins from the province of Ca Mau posted on social networkshave caused a stir in the online community in the last few days.

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of prolonged drought, hundreds of irrigation lakes in Dak Lak province, in Vietnam’s central highlands, have dried to the bottom and the land is cracked.

 More than 150 people are feared dead after they were buried under two landslides triggered by more than three days of heavy rain in central Sri Lanka,