VietNamNet Bridge – Clinics and consulting rooms have reported sharp increases in the numbers of patients who are students suffering from mental and emotional disorders due to the hard pressures of the exam season.

Security experts from VNCERT (the Vietnam Computer Emergency Response Team) and BKAV, have confirmed that 220 websites have been hacked by Chinese, but dismissed reports that a Vietnam-China cyberwar is underway.

 On 2nd May 2014, China placed the HD-981 drilling rig in the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of Viet Nam, 120 nautical miles from the Vietnamese coast.

Le Dinh Quy is a renowned sculptor in Vietnam who is best known as the creator of many large-scaled monuments. He is also an outstanding painter. Over 70 artworks by Quy are now on display at the Exhibition House at 29 Hang Bai Street, Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more former high-ranking state officials have become employees of commercial banks after their retirement.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A high-speed patrol boat worth VND12 billion ($600,000) was presented to the marine police forces in Region 3 on Monday. The vessel is a gift of the Vietnam Fertilizer and Petroleum Chemicals Corporation (PVFCCo).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam will use all peaceful measures as stipulated in the United Nations Charter and international law to safeguard its rights and interests in the East Sea,

 VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday afternoon, thousands of people in the Mekong Delta City of Can Tho marched to protest China’s illegal oil rig in the exclusive economic zone of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Chinese ships intentionally rammed a ship of the Vietnam Marine Police Tuesday morning, in waters within the continental shelf and exclusive economic zone of Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The author of The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman, has returned to Viet Nam for the second time after almost twenty years.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a  land of harsh weather, the central province of Quang Binh is also bestowed with many beautiful landscapes.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The French Institute in Vietnam and Idecaf will hold a guitar recital of Gabriel Bianco at Idecaf on May 22 at 8 p.m.

VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Science and Technology has just affirmed that it is prepared to grant a license for putting the Truong Sa sub into testing in the open sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China has benefited in a major way from its bilateral trade with Vietnam. It mainly buys raw materials, exports processed products and makes modest investments in Vietnam.

 Red wine may not be as good for you as hoped, say scientists who have studied the drink's ingredient that is purported to confer good health.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam should give more incentives to domestic firms, as the current preferential policies toward FDI firms may hinder the nation's development and result in dependance, one official said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Vietnamese students nowadays are treated as if they are God,” a private school teacher commented.

 "The parties concerned to exercise the utmost restraint and resolve their dispute in a peaceful manner, through dialogue and in conformity with international law, including the UN Charter."

 VN organises cashew-themed ‘rendezvous'; Bank assets value surges in March; ‘Privileged' SMEs suffer credit freeze; Big push planned for VN goods; New TPP round begins in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – China’s illegal placement of a drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf in the East Sea infringes upon the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese associations in France issued a joint statement on May 11 condemning China’s serious infringement of Vietnam’s sovereignty, in response to China’s unilateral placement of oil rig Haiyang Shiyou 981

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese Community in Singapore has expressed their anger at China’s perverse act of positioning a drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese coast guard vessel 3041 on May 12 fired water cannon on Vietnamese ship Truong Sa 22, which was undertaking a law enforcement mission in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf

 The collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which holds enough ice to raise global seas by up to 15 feet (about 4.6 meters), is already underway and appears to be "unstoppable," two separate U.S. studies said Monday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung on May 11 delivered his remarks at the 24th ASEAN Summit held in in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.