VietNamNet Bridge – More than 200 households are continuing to struggle with water shortages in a Ghenh Rang Ward fishing village in central coastal Binh Dinh Province.

 Vietnam hopes to get further support from the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Secretariat in preparation for the 132nd IPU General Assembly, which will be held in the country in 2015.

 China on June 22 mobilised up to 137 ships, including five military ships, to protect its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981 that is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters, according to the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Department.

 Hundreds of Vietnamese nationals, students and international friends marched along the streets of the Swiss capital Bern, on June 21, opposing China’s escalating violations in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in a report on green growth and fossil fuel fiscal policy in Vietnam proposes the nation remove subsidies for fossil fuel prices.

 Professor Jerome Cohen from New York University’s School of Law says China should enter negotiations  and settle the current territorial dispute peacefully or it will make things difficult for itself.

 The domestic media has done a good job of covering the latest developments in the East Sea, especially since China towed its illegal oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981 in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone in early May.

 Professor Renato DeCastro from Manila-based De La Salle University has said that by deploying the second oil rig [Nanhai 9] to the East Sea, China has put the Philippines and Vietnam in the same boat.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A royal mausoleum on a Hue mountaintop is unique because the original architects built no walls or fences to protect it. Their idea was to allow it to blend in with the mountain, sky and the rain in an eternal bond

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has implemented its oil and gas exploration and exploitation totally in the country’s continental shelf and waters in a continuous manner and in line with international law

 VietNamNet Bridge – China's act of locating its oil rig in waters near the Paracels is more than a dispute over sovereignty, it is also a dispute about the international law of the sea.

 Employees might be entitled to job-loss allowance or severance allowance after the stop working at an enterprise. The payment of these benefits varies, depending on the circumstances and reasons why the employee retired or stopped working.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not as fancy and fabulous as some trendy music genres like pop, hiphop or dance, rock still has its unique seduction to many Saigonese. There are just few stages for rock, so bands and fans usually gather at some popular venues

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Trong An, former deputy head of the Department of Childcare and Protection, tells Hai Quan online newspaper that ensuring adequate healthcare and education for children is an urgent task.

 New exchange rate not affecting inflation control; Steel firms lobby against policy favouring Hoa Phat; 3 big Vietnamese firms join in $566mn cattle project; Indian animal feed suppliers to explore Vietnam market

  The national flag carrier, Vietnam Airlines has submitted to the Ministry of Transport its equitisation plan, in which the firm expects to keep its preferences after getting through equitisation.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Independent filmmaker Nguyen Thi Tham's latest documentary Chuyen Di Cuoi Cung Cua Chi Phung (Madam Phung's Last Journey) marks the first long documentary in her career.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Magnum Group from Dubai plans to invest VND5,500 billion in Truong Le Mountain ecotourism zone and South Sam Son coast project, the People’s Committee of Thanh Hoa province announced.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thanh Tam has over the past two months used egg shells to make dolls of Fuleco the Armadillo, the official mascot of the FIFA World Cup 2014 soccer tournament which is taking place in Brazil from June 12 to July 13.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Smuggling from Cambodia to Vietnam occurs at border gates in southwestern provinces, with the common products being sugar, tobacco, petrol and cattle.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese exporters, who have been hit with anti-dumping lawsuits in the past, are discovering that low prices on their products are hurting them in the US market.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many education experts have come out in opposition to a recent draft decree by the Ministry of Interior placing stricter foreign language requirements on deputy ministers,

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam’s tourism industry has been actively courting the tourism markets in Russia, the Republic of Korea and Japan to offset the decline in Chinese tourists stemming from the East Sea dispute.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Sunsets in many different regions of Vietnam through the lens of international photographers.

Professor Carlyle A. Thayer – a renowned expert on the East Sea from the Australian Defence Force Academy – stands in staunch opposition to the recent claims by two purported Chinese scholars that China’s sovereignty claims are legitimate.