Check out what is in the news today:

Politics

-- At Cam Ranh Military Base in the south-central province of Khanh Hoa, the Vietnam People's Navy on Tuesday organized a ceremony to put Cam Ranh Port into operation. The port is among the country’s major ones that can receive 110,000 DWT aircraft carriers.

Society

-- The People’s Committee of Binh Duong Province, around 30 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City, on Tuesday put another five environment-friendly buses running on compressed natural gas into use.

-- Agriculture departments in localities in the Mekong Delta on Tuesday began adopting approaches to cope with the ongoing severe drought and an alarming intrusion of salt water into vast areas of agricultural land.

-- According to the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport, several advertising companies have bidden for the right to advertise on the outside of buses as part of a pilot plan to launch  advertisements on 170 buses, which is expected to earn the city more than VND 10 billion (US$442,854) each year. 

Business

-- At a meeting on Tuesday with Ho Chi Minh City leaders, businessmen voiced their grievances over several matters, including the tardiness of value-added tax refunding.

Lifestyle

-- Representatives of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism in the north-central province of Quang Binh said on Tuesday that ambassadors and consuls general of several countries in Vietnam and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Tom Malinowski are poised to conduct an excursion to Son Doong Cave, the world’s largest, from May 11 to 17.

-- In a document sent to a copyright protection agency under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, national broadcaster Vietnam Television has admitted that some of its programs had used a number of drone videos created by a local enthusiast without his permission, while denying doing so in another show as accused.