Vietnam got off to a flying start at the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Cup with a convincing 3-1 victory over Jordan in the opening match of Group A at the Thong Nhat Stadium in HCM City on May 14.

A five-year regional project to fight human trafficking across Southeast Asia was launched in Hanoi on May 13 by the United Nations Action for Cooperation against Trafficking in Persons (UN-ACT).

The Vietnam-EU Free Trade Agreement expected to be signed by October will bring "win-win" opportunities of success for both sides' business communities, delegates told a forum organised in Ho Chi Minh City on May 13.

Although package tours to China have risen by 40% this year, travel agencies are now seeing many of those tours cancelled because of the tension in the East Sea between China and Vietnam.

The Vietnam Cashew Association (Vinacas) will organise an international conference on the development of the cashew industry in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province from May 15 to 17.

Over 1,700 children, including 500 underprivileged, 100 coaches, football team manages and referees in Thua Thien-Hue, will benefit from the Football for All in Vietnam (FFAV) project in 2014-2015.

A leading provider of collaboration software, Atlassian, and creative digital and software development company Pyramid Consulting will expand their joint software development centre in Ho Chi Minh City.

Vietnamese piano student Nguyen Duc Anh, studying in Germany, has taken the silver medal at the Alkan-Zimmerman International Piano Competition in Greece, which took place between May 6-9.

The central province has called for foreign investment for four projects with a total capitalisation of US$1.2 trillion, a source from the province reported.

Vietnam will send two players to the World Badminton Championships due to be held in Denmark in August.