The Association for Liaison with Overseas Vietnamese in collaboration with VTV’s External Television Department on May 16 announced a new TV programme "Dau an Viet Nam" (Vietnam Impressions) featuring outstanding Vietnamese persons and promoting Vietnamese images to friends all over the world.

After a decade, Vietnam’s first remote sensing satellite, the VNREDSat-1, has completed 53,000 rounds around the Earth, totaling 2.4 billion km, it was announced at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 16 to celebrate the 10th anniversary since its launch into space.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese students have won five awards in their maiden appearance at the VEX Robotics World Championship held in Texas, the United States.

VOV.VN - A hot spell hit the western part of Vietnam on May 16 morning and spread across the north-eastern, north-central and central regions, with the average daytime temperature reaching more than 37℃.

VOV.VN - Twelve tremors have hit Kon Plong district in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum in five consecutive days, with the strongest measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale, according to the Vietnam Institute of Geophysics.

More than one million students have registered for the National High School Graduation Exam in 2023, an increase of around 24,000 students compared to last year.

Housing 149 out of Vietnam’s 712 sci-tech companies, Hanoi remains in need of breakthrough solutions so that the capital city can quickly raise the local quality and quantity of businesses to reflect its true potential.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has agreed to proceed with the biometric identification (facial recognition), authentication and use of electronic chip-embedded citizen identity cards and passports and level 2 e-identification accounts for passengers at Phu Bai International Airport in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue.

The Vietnamese fellow-countryman association in Toronto, Canada, has organised a gathering on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Vietnam - Canada diplomatic relations and its 16th founding anniversary.

Leaders of the northern Dien Bien province of Vietnam and Phongsaly province of Laos announced the opening of Nam Dich - Huoi Hia border crossing at an inauguration ceremony in Nam Dich hamlet of Dien Bien's Nam Po district on May 15.