VietNamNet Bridge - The US President on Monday held talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Dai Quang, met with Party Secretary General Nguyen Phu Trong and PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc and visited the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum Complex.

 The Vietnam Diary Products Joint Stock Company (Vinamilk) will remove the maximum foreign ownership limit of its shares, Chairwoman of Vinamilk’s board of directors Le Bang Tam has said.

 Minister of Defence General Ngo Xuan Lich and a high-ranking military delegation left Hanoi on May 23 for an official visit to Laos and to attend the 10th ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM-10) from May 23-26.

 National Assembly Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien and US members of parliament have discussed issues of shared concern such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and national defence and security.

 Important milestones in the Vietnam-U.S. relations

 The three-cushion carom billiards World Cup held in Ho Chi Minh City concluded on May 22 with the overall championship victory going to Frederic Caudron from Belgium.

US Ambassador Ted Osius writes about the outstanding achievements of the 21-year relationship between Vietnam and the US and what lies ahead in this ongoing process.

Following the signing of the landmark TPP early this year, President Barack Obama’s visit to Vietnam this week is expected to bolster US investors’ confidence in the prospects of bilateral relations. 

VietNamNet Bridge - This morning thousands of Hanoi people gathered along the street to greet the visiting US President, Barack Obama.

 US President Obama plans to meet young entrepreneurs and members of the local business community at Dreamplex, a co-working space for startups in HCM City on May 24.

 V.League 1’s Quang Ninh Coal has agreed to let their midfielder Nghiem Xuan Tu have a trial period at Germany’s FC Kaiserslautern in August.

  A number of international media outlets have covered US President Barack Obama’s first visit to Vietnam from May 23-25.

 The US completely lifts arms embargo on sales of lethal weapons to Vietnam, announced President Barack Obama who is on the first day of three-day official visit to the country.

While total receipts of the state in the first four months of the year were VND317 trillion, total expenses reached VND370 trillion. The Ministry of Finance’s April report released on May 9 once again showed that the state budget is limited.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s private airline VietJet and Boeing Group today finalized an order for 100 737 MAX 200 airplanes, the largest ever single commercial airplane purchase in Vietnam aviation worth US$11.3 billion.

VietNamNet Bridge - This morning, the welcome ceremony to US President Barack Obama took place at the Presidential Palace, as the first official activity of Obama’s visit to Vietnam.

 The State Bank of Vietnam has confirmed that it has no plan to mobilize gold from the public for now due to risks though the Vietnam Gold Trading Association has proposed making full use of this huge yet idle resource.

 A number of the US newspapers have recently published articles highlighting the warming relationship between the US and Vietnam on the threshold of the US President’s visit to Vietnam.

The East Sea situation was the highlight of a debate recently held by Poland’s Centre for International Relations (CSM).

  Deputy minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Thanh Hung said that the workshop on information safety between ASEAN and Japan will enhance and strengthen the relationship between the two.