On May 17 the General Department of Environment decided to impose nearly VND4 billion ($190,000) fines on three companies for polluting the Buoi River by discharging untreated wastewater.

 The first Vietnamese spacecraft made by a group of Vietnamese engineers was successfully launched into the space from the town of Alice Springs in Australia on May 16.

 Three scientists were honoured at the Ta Quang Buu Awards, which is held annually to honour exceptional basic scientific researches, at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 18.

 Nexttel, Viettel's brand in Cameroon, won the award for best Internet Service Provider in Cameroon at the 2015 Ascom Prizes for communications companies last month.

 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.

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.

 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).

 VietNamNet Bridge – A number of lakes, the lungs of Hanoi, have become polluted.

 Dozens of elephants in Dak Lak Province have been scaring people and destroying crops while searching for food outside of the forest because of drought and disappearing forest land.

 Some expatriates and local people used last Sunday to clean a seriously polluted canal on Hanoi's Nguyen Khang Street, surprising the local authorities.

 The Prime Minister approved a project on studying the impact of groundwater use to land subsidence in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the Mekong Delta.

 ​​​Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a plan to meet regulations in the annexes of the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships (MARPOL Convention).

 The People’s Committee of Ho Chi Minh City has issued a plan to completely handle long lasting environmental pollution in Dong Hung Thuan ward of District 12, home to 42 polluting weaving, dyeing, paper and package plants.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will oversee a strategy for exploiting and utilizing natural resources and protecting the marine environment to 2020 and vision to 2030. 

 The Lac Hong University’s LH-FF team successfully overcame 31 other competitors to become winner at the Robocon Vietnam 2016 final, which took place in the northern province of Ninh Binh on May 14. 

 The Vietnam-EU cooperation in the science and technology field is auspicious, said the Head of Unit for Strategy on International Cooperation under the European Commission’s Directorate General of Innovation & Research.

 Vietnamese students have shined at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF 2016), the world’s largest international pre-college science competition, which took place in the US from May 8-13.

VietNamNet Bridge - Phu Do Village has been making rice vermicelli for more than 400 years. However, the traditional job has caused serious pollution in the village.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Thanh Hoa market for agricultural and forest products in Thanh Hoa town, Long An province has long been known as the wild bird market. This is also the biggest bird market in the southwestern region.

The Vietnam Association for Conservation of Nature and Environment has recognized 725 perennial fokienia trees in Quang Nam as heritage trees of Vietnam.