VietNamNet Bridge – There was no better swimmer than Nguyen Diep Phuong Tram at the National Age Groups Swimming Tournament on its fourth day in HCM City yesterday, May 29.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese Grandmaster Hoang Thi Bao Tram defeated third seed Munguntuul Batkhuyag of Mongolia to rank second in the women’s category at the ongoing Asian Individual Chess Championship.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Lightning killed a farmer last Saturday afternoon as he was in the field preparing for a new crop in central Thua Thien-Hue Province. Another six people were hospitalised because of the lightning strike.

 Quinn Award for Lifetime Achievement will be bestowed on legendary Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut, according to the Los Angeles Press Club.

A Boeing official said the American airplane manufacture is committed to continued investment in Vietnam in the time to come.

 Vietnam will attend the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting on Ending AIDS, in June in the US.

The Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam (BIDV) appeared to be the most impacted by the restructuring plan for the debt-ridden Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL), credit ratings agency Moody’s has said.

 Foreign investors registered to pump approximately US$10.16 billion into Viet Nam in the first five months of this year, surging 136 per cent from a year ago, statistics from the Ministry of Planning and Investment reveals.

The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications will issue regulations monthly to call on telecoms network providers to temporarily stop providing services with telephone number prefixes and mobile phone numbers that send spam messages.  

 The volume of unlicensed software used in Viet Nam has fallen by three percentage points to 78 per cent compared with 2013, according to the latest global software survey released by the Software Alliance (BSA).

Many free trade agreements (FTAs) and comprehensive partnership agreements have taken effect in the country. However, Vietnamese products bearing Vietnamese brands still find it difficult to conquer the world market.

 The Sembcorp Development company from Singapore has expressed intention to invest in a Vietnam-Singapore Innovative Park in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Japan’s ANA Holdings will buy 8.771 percent of Vietnam Airlines’ stake worth 109 million USD, becoming the national flag carrier’s strategic shareholder under a strategic cooperation deal signed in Tokyo on May 28.

 Internet freedom in Vietnam is an irrefutable truth, or in other words, Vietnam is an Internet-friendly country.

 Principal of Indonesia’s President University Chandra Setiawan expressed hope to welcome more Vietnamese students during a graduation ceremony in Jakarta on May 28.

 The country's unemployment rate slightly rose to 2.25 percent in the first quarter of this year as the local economy slowed down, according to the labor ministry's new data.

 Ho Chi Minh City is willing to cooperate with Lao localities, including Attapu province, in a more practical and effective way, Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Dinh La Thang has said.  

 Thai Princess Maha Chaktri Sirindhon paid a visit to the Vietnamese Embassy in Bangkok and attended a ceremony to launch a pictorial book on Vietnam’s beauty on May 28.

 Vietnam and Russia are discussing the building of two more Gepard-3.9 ships for the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN), the local news website Sputnik quoted the Russian Rostex Group as saying on May 29.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe held talks in Tokyo on May 28 following a welcome ceremony for the Vietnamese PM.