VietNamNet Bridge – Street food, for which Viet Nam is rightly famous, can be a financial boon to local communities, helping many people, especially the poor, increase their income.

Workshop on report from Vietnam Institute for Economic and Policy Research discusses difficulties in meeting socioeconomic targets and identifies possible solutions.

 Irdeto, a world leader in digital platform security, has been selected by K+ to provide end-to-end multiscreen support for the launch of its first commercial over-the-top (OTT) service.

  The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and the Vietnamese State Capital Investment Corporation (SCIC) signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a Russian-Vietnamese investment platform on May 16.

 The Novaland Group on May 18 began work on a lake covering an area of 3.6 hectares in District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Relevant agencies must get well prepared for receiving the remainder of the World Bank's International Development Association (IDA-17) fund allocated for Vietnam in the 2014-2017 period, according to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

 The French School of the Far East (EFEO), an institute dedicated to studying Asian societies, gave an Honourary Doctorate degree to Historical Professor Phan Huy Le.

 A Vietnamese delegation led by Le Thi Thu Ba, Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, visited Canada from May 13-17, aiming to strengthen cooperation between the two countries’ judiciaries.

 The results of the election of deputies to the 14th National Assembly (NA) will be announced within 20 days after election day (May 22), according to the National Election Council (NEC) Office.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Contributing VND558 billion (nearly $30 million) to Honda, Toyota or Ford Vietnam many years ago, VEAM still earn hundreds of million of USD of profit each year

Tens of tons of dead fish have been taken out of HCM City’s Nhieu Loc-Thi Nghe canal after the downpour on the afternoon of May 16. The authorities said the fish had been killed by toxic waste, which flowed into the canal via rainwater.

VietNamNet Bridge - On the way to apply for a job, two hungry young men who were out of money stopped at a grocery to pretend to buy bread and other food and then ran away.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Photos of a wedding of two sets of twins from the province of Ca Mau posted on social networkshave caused a stir in the online community in the last few days.

VietNamNet Bridge – Because of prolonged drought, hundreds of irrigation lakes in Dak Lak province, in Vietnam’s central highlands, have dried to the bottom and the land is cracked.

VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnamese business community thinks the value of tea and energy-drink manufacturer Tan Hiep Phat has decreased to $500 million due to the infamous fly-in-the-bottle scandal.

VietNamNet Bridge – The first baby conceived via in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in this northern province was born on Monday at the Bac Ninh Pediatrics and Obstetrics Hospital, 

 VietNamNet Bridge – The first volume of War Memoirs by late French President Charles de Gaulle was recently published in Vietnamese.

Saigon, Hanoi and Hue are lively featured through the lens of French photographer Michel Blanchard at an on-going exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City.

 Ho Chi Minh City's streets proved incapable of dealing with their first rain on May 16 after a long dry spell.

 Vietnamese technology giant the VNG Corporation (VNG) has purchased 38 per cent of the Tiki Corporation, the owner of the e-commerce website Tiki.vn, for VND383 billion ($17.16 million).