VOV.VN - A series of six earthquakes struck several communes in central Quang Ngai province on the morning of May 11, including one tremor measuring 3.7 in magnitude.

VOV.VN - Vietnam’s chess team for the 2026 Chess Olympiad will compete without top grandmasters Le Quang Liem, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son and Le Tuan Minh, according to the Vietnam Chess Federation.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired a working session with the Presidential Office in Hanoi on May 11 to discuss the office’s key tasks and orientations for the coming period.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Le Minh Hung on May 11 called on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to proactively develop a unified mechanism for managing external relations activities, particularly in economic diplomacy, investment attraction and technology diplomacy.

VOV.VN - Viettel High Tech, an arm of Vietnam’s military run telecom and defence industry giant Viettel, has expanded defence technology cooperation with a series of leading Turkish partners at the SAHA 2026 Defence and Aerospace Exhibition recently held in Istanbul, Türkiye.

VOV.VN - Vietnamese customs authorities have seized tens of thousands of products suspected of infringing intellectual property rights during a nationwide anti-smuggling and counterfeit goods crackdown launched under the Government’s Official Dispatch No. 38.

The Government has approved a framework to revamp the adoption law which has shown signs of strain, officials have said.

VOV.VN - Amid global trade volatility and tensions in the Middle East, Vietnam continues to attract long-term investor interest thanks to strong FDI inflows, competitive labour costs, improving infrastructure connectivity and an established manufacturing ecosystem, HSBC economists have said.

The Immigration Department under the Ministry of Public Security will roll out nationwide the Pre-arrival Information (PAI) system, an online platform allowing international passengers to submit travel-related information before entering Vietnam.

Deposit interest rates have continued to cool, with 42 banks cutting rates by 0.1-0.5 percentage points since the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Governor met commercial banks in early April 2026.