VietNamNet Bridge - UN Deputy Secretary General Jan Eliasson is paying a visit to Vietnam from May 3-6 to engage with senior government and UN officials on some issues.

VietNamNet Bridge – Confirming that the water in the sea of Da Nang, Ha Tinh and Nghe An is unpolluted, senior officials of the provinces swam and ate fresh seafood during the recent four-day holiday (April 30-May 3).

 PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc is chairing the Government’s regular meeting in April on May 4-5 in Ha Noi.

 French Ambassador to Vietnam, Jean-Noel Poirier, spoke to Tien Phong Newspaper about Hanoi’s worsening air quality and an agreement on the supplies of French air quality measurement systems to the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In 2006, each Vietnamese shouldered about VND3.5 million of public debt, and 10 years later the burden has increased to nearly VND30 million.

VietNamNet Bridge - The four Asian giants predicted to be able to change the face of some industries and economic branches in Vietnam include CJ Group (South Korea), Ayala (the Philippines), SCG (Thailand) and Central Group (Thailand).

 More than 200 residents of Osaka and Kansai, Japan protested vehemently on May 1 against the overt Chinese transgressions of Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty and international law in the East Sea.

 Vietnam's top chess player Le Quang Liem has jumped to No 34 in the world in the FIDE’s May ranking.

 Becamex Binh Duong will want to bid goodbye to the Asian Football Confederation Champions League with a victory in the last Group E match today at their Gò Đậu Stadium.

 Vietnam received as much as $6.886 billion in foreign direct investment (FDI) by April 20, a year-on-year surge of 85 percent, according to the General Statistic Office (GSO).

 Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Dang Huy Dong attended the 2016 Integration Segment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) at the UN headquarters in New York, the United States on May 3-4.

 Vietnam’s Under-19 football team has been drawn in Group B at the Asian U19 Football Championship 2016, which will take place in Bahrain from October 13-30.

 The Australia 1 team won the first prize at the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) Women’s Beach Volleyball Tour 2016, which wrapped up in the northern province of Quang Ninh on May 1.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin put his signature to ratify the free trade agreement (FTA) between the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) and Vietnam on May 1.

 The Republic of Korea’s consumer goods firms are shifting their overseas focus to Vietnam, increasing investment and aggressively opening new branches, Yonhap news agency quoted industry watchers in an article on May 2.

 The long-awaited multi-billion US dollar refinery project in the central province of Binh Dinh is facing an uncertain future after nearly three years of registration for investment.

 Da Nang is seeking a 51.74 million USD loan to fund the Traffic Infrastructure Improvement Project for 2016-19.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has assigned respective tasks to ministries and localities in the wake of the serious and unusual mass fish deaths that happened in the central coastal region in early April.

 Experts have proposed the construction of five to seven dams along the Red River to raise the water level, thus serving agricultural production and water transport without affecting flood drainage.

 Two naval ships set sail for the southern continental shelf on May 2 to help the forces and fishermen working there cast their votes on the National Assembly (NA) and People’s Council deputies earlier than scheduled.