VOV.VN - Google Maps has begun updating administrative boundaries in some provinces and cities in Vietnam, more than eight months after the merger of provinces and cities.

The image of the Vietnamese national flag on the roof of a hall on Truong Sa Lon Island was shown in the Google Maps app on July 18 morning.

The Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has worked with representatives of Google to clarify whether it deleted or blurred the national flag of Vietnam in Truong Sa (Spratly) on its Google Maps and Google Earth apps, Le Quang Tu Do, head of the authority said on July 11.

VOV.VN - Pomelos are projected to become Vietnam’s seventh fruit to successfully make inroads into the United States’ market, following on from dragon fruit, rambutans, longans, lychees, star apples, and mangoes, according to the Vietnam Plant Protection Department.