Vietnam and the United States issued a joint announcement on climate change partnership on May 23 (Vietnam time), emphasising the need to combat global climate change.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has just returned from a five-day trip to Russia— his first visit to any foreign nation since assuming his new post.

 GE, a US based global corporation on May 23 announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Ministry of Industry and Trade on developing 1,000MW of Wind energy in Vietnam.

 Small-scale businesses are taking the lead in the over-the-top content (OTT) service, Nguyen Viet Dung, general director of Viettel Telecom, said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Building a platform for partnership on the conservation of biodiversity is urgently needed to accelerate collaboration among ministries, sectors and stakeholders,

 VietNamNet Bridge – The prolonged drought and saltwater have damaged more than 81,000 hectares of shrimp breeding areas in eight Mekong provinces,

 Vietnam’s Nguyen Quoc Nguyen finished third at the World Cup 3-Cushion Carom Billiards, which closed in HCM City on May 22.

 Ly Hoang Nam rose to No 886 in the ATP’s latest world rankings, released on May 23.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Bourbon Street Jazz and Blues Festival will be held on Saturday this week at Cargo Bar in District 4, HCMC to raise funds for manufacturing wheelchairs for the disabled in Vietnam.

US President Barack Obama last night spent one hour having dinner at Bun Cha Huong Lien - a local restaurant serving the famous Vietnamese roasted pork with vermicelli in Le Van Huu Street, Hanoi.

VietNamNet Bridge - The effects of Circular 30 have caused primary school teachers to feel busier because they now have to spend time writing comments on students’ work, while students tend to be lazier.

Experts from the Bach Khoa Anti-virus Center (BKAV), the leading network security firm in Vietnam, have found signs showing that the tool used to jailbreak iPhone is capable of collecting information from iCloud accounts. 

VietNamNet Bridge - Though saline intrusion in Mekong River Delta has eased, helping farmers cultivate the summer-autumn crop, 1 million people still lack clean water for daily life.

VietNamNet Bridge - The trade surplus in the first quarter of 2016 alone was five times higher than that of the entire year of 2012. But this could be bad news.

 Vietnam and Mozambique can cooperate in several transportation areas as the two countries share similarities in geography and own a four-decade traditional solidarity and friendship, said Transport Minister Truong Quang Nghia.

 Major press agencies around the world on May 23 carried stories about US President Barack Obama’s announcement of fully lifting the embargo on the sale of lethal weapons to Vietnam on the occasion of his ongoing visit to the Southeast Asian country.

Thailand’s Central Group and its Vietnamese partner Nguyen Kim Group are working on a plan to open seven new Big C supermarkets this year after they completed procedures to take over all Big C assets in the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Con Son relic site in Chi Linh District, Hai Duong Province is closely associated with many well-known Vietnamese figures such as Tran Nguyen Dan, Huyen Quang and Nguyen Trai, a national hero and world cultural figure.

Often critisised as lack of professional procedure, the artists and art dealers in the country are trying to make art autions more professional. The first art auction in Viet Nam with five art works will take place in Ha Noi on May 28.

VietNamNet Bridge - One of the issues to be discussed during US President Obama’s visit to Vietnam on May 23-25 is the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP).