Vietnam will send a 13-member swimming team, including eight athletes, to the 28th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, to be held in Singapore next month, targeting to win at least ten gold medals. 

VietNamNet Bridge - The latest dong one-percent devaluation on May 7, though described as “unavoidable”, has raised controversy, because this will lead to a heavier public debt burden.

 The National Assembly Standing Committee yesterday gave qualified approval to several reform proposals made by the nation's top prosecutorial agency, the Viet Nam Supreme People's Procuracy.

 Scientist and experts have renewed their calls to the National Assembly and the Government to take prompt actions to save the Dong Nai River in Dong Nai Province.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A giant oarfish 4m long on May was found on the beach of Trung Trach commune in Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province, in central Vietnam.

Hoang Anh Gia Lai and its chairman, Doan Nguyen Duc, announced yesterday that together the company and its chairman will purchase 15 million shares of the company through trades on the stock exchange from now until mid-June.

 The Mekong Delta provinces are shifting crops and cultivation habits in accordance with respective natural conditions as one of the measures making them adapt to climate change, according to the Steering Committee for the Southwest Region.

Hanoi authorities have suspended work at Nhon - Ha Noi Station metro project, pending an investigation into two accidents that occurred at construction sites.

 Ha Noi's sewers and drains are said to be inadequate to cope with heavy flooding, likely to arrive with the coming storm season.

The Government has further simplified immigration requirements for international visitors in the wake of tour operators’ complaints about discouraging immigration procedures.  

 Vietnam, Italy talk cooperation in culture, education, Vietnam, Germany share education, culture policymaking

 Information technology (IT) companies in Vietnam are in need of personnel in mobile application programming due to a shortage of workers in the field, the Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) daily reported.

 Vietnam’s leading property developer Vingroup will invest VND19 trillion ($884.6 million) in an amusement-accommodation and ecological park complex in Vu Yen Island in Hai Phong City, according to newswire Cafef.

 Vietnamese cyclist Nguyen Thi That has been invited to participate in a training course at the World Cycling Centre in Aigle city in Switzerland.

 Restoration work began at the partly collapsed Phu Van Lau (Pavilion of Edicts) located within the Hue Imperial Citadel, a UNESCO Word Cultural Heritage site since 1993, on May 13.

VietNamNet Bridge – Si, a newly established restaurant in HCMC’s District 1, might bring an unforgettable experience to diners as they are served beautifully prepared Vietnamese dishes and surrounded by numerous antiques

 The 2015 Vietnam Festival is scheduled to take place in Yoyogi park in Tokyo, Japan on June 13-14, as heard a press conference in the city on May 13.

 Fifty one jailed for attempted murder, HCM City plans more kinders for migrant workers' children,Eximbank's former branch director arrested, Forbes Vietnam hosts Under 30 Summit, Ca Mau finally receives rainfall

 Vietnam and the Czech Republic issued a joint statement on the occasion of State President Truong Tan Sang’s visit to the European country from May 10-13 at the invitation of President Milos Zeman.

 Vietnamese President meets Czech PM on visit’s last day, President meets with Czech experts advocating for Vietnam, President attends VNA’s launching of rep office in Prague, Vietnam, Czech Republic boost defence cooperation