“The Internet of Things: Principles - Practices - Solutions” conference, chaired by Dr. Timothy Chou in Hanoi on May 4, revealed new opportunities for many enterprises in Vietnam.

 Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung urged has localities in the Mekong Delta to devise measures to cope with landslides in the context of climate change. 

 Vietnam and China have reached important common awareness on major directions and measures to enhance mutual political trust, friendship, and cooperation as well as maintain peace and stable and healthy development of bilateral relations.

 Vietnamese steel production and sales growth are slowing, while construction steel consumption has decreased, the Viet Nam Steel Association (VSA) announced.

 The Vietnamese game industry is expected to earn annual revenue of US$1 billion within 10 years, according to experts.

The electricity industry must improve its management and technology to reduce losses in the transmission grid as well as eradicate power stealing, which are very serious in rural and remote areas.

 Vietnam supports cooperation between Vietnamese and Japanese localities, said Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh at her meeting with leaders of Fukuoka prefecture and Kitakyushu city on May 15.

The WB has approved US$155 million in financing to strengthen the research, teaching, and institutional capacity of three autonomous universities and improve the management of Vietnam’s higher education system.

 President Tran Dai Quang paid an official visit to China on May 11-15 at the invitation of General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and President of China, Xi Jinping.

 With growing innovation in the sector, experts and investors note that wind power projects in Vietnam will be feasible with an 8-9 US cent per kWh feed-in-tariff.

To boost the private sector’s global competitiveness, Vietnam needs to reform its business environment.

 Amid a growing interest in Vietnam from global garment and technology companies, foreign logistics firms are expanding cross-border transport services between Vietnam, China, and other countries in the region to meet the growing demand.

 The 10th session of the 14th National Assembly Standing Committee commenced in Hanoi on May 15.

 Vietnam's annual retail sales growth projected to reach 11.9 percent

 The Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has shared the database of 24 million households buying health insurance with the Ministry of Health, a move aimed to better health insurance management and health care activities.

 Ho Chi Minh City’s leader and Diane Farrell, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia at the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration had a meeting in the southern hub on May 15 to discuss smart city development.

 Rising sea levels have exacerbated saline intrusion and coastal erosion in Vietnam, but farmers can make the best out of a bad situation by shifting from agriculture to aquaculture, raising brackish water shrimp.

 Vietnamese masters occupy top three positions after four round matches at the Asian Continental Chess Championships’ Women’s Category in China on May 15.

 Vietnamese grandmaster Le Quang Liem had the honour to represent Vietnamese students by carrying the country’s flag at Webster University’s graduation ceremony in the US last weekend.

 Three Vietnamese fishermen working on Singapore’s Le Tong Patriot ship received emergency aid at the Singapore General Hospital (SGH) after they suffered severe burns from a fire on board on May 6.