China on June 24 sent 102 – 108 vessels, including six military ships, to protect its oil rig that is illegally stationed in Vietnam’s waters, continuing aggressive acts to harass Vietnamese ships.

Travellers are advised to go to Tam Coc in the northern province of Ninh Binh this season to see the waterways in the western region, the mountains of the northwest region and the rice fields of the northern region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – For the past few years, Tran Hung Dao Street has become home to headquarters and offices of major banks, and is now known as “the Wall Street of Hanoi”.

 VietNamNet Bridge – 2013 Welsh Music Prize winner Georgia Ruth and her band will play in Ho Chi Minh City on July 1.

 China violates the international law when moving its Haiyang-Shiyou 981 oil rig in Vietnam’s waters by using force and threats in using force.

VietNamNet Bridge – Methods to determine land prices, the formulation and amendment of land price frameworks and land price lists, determining prices for specific types of land, and consultancy on determining land prices are regulated

 VietNamNet Bridge – The urban poor are often the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Viet Nam, and housing insecurity for the urban poor is a key dimension of poverty.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Welsh harpist, singer-songwriter Georgia Ruth and her band will play in Ho Chi Minh City on July 1.

 Vietnamese Ambassador to Japan Doan Xuan Hung has affirmed that Vietnam has published many proper evidences showing its sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago and China ’s historical documents are baseless.

 VietNamNet Bridge – An exhibition on Truong Sa Island offers conclusive proof that the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes belong to Viet Nam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In an age of Edward Snowden and Bradley (Chelsea) Manning, no classic play could be more potent than Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People.

 Leather exports to top US$12 billion; Ho Chi Minh City sees economic recovery; Monthly CPI rises in major cities; ‘Tra fish decree’ remains controversial; High-tech firms unable to meet localization targets

 A strain of the polio virus has been found at an international airport in Brazil, but there are no human cases, the World Health Organization has said.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over 95 percent of National Assembly deputies on June 24, the last day of their seventh session in the 13 th tenure, approved the Law on amendments and supplements to the Law on Vietnamese Nationality.

 Viet Nam's top badminton player Nguyen Tien Minh has been named the No 1 seed at the 2014 US YONEX Open Badminton Championships, to be held at Suffolk County Community College in Long Island, New York on July 8-13.

Chef Nguyen Le Hoang Phat will represent Vietnam at the two-day international culinary competition that kicks off in Shanghai on June 26.

Amendments to the Law on Vietnamese Nationality approved on June 24 abolished the requirement that expatriates residing abroad register to retain their Vietnamese nationality.

 VietNamNet Bridge – “Letters from the battlefield”, a Vietnamese-English book featuring letters of local veteran author/literacy critic Ngo Thao and Donald C. Lundquist, Lieutenant Colonel of the U.S Army, to their wives and children

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City People's Council last Saturday approved a resolution to increase subsidies for preschool education, which will take effect on June 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly deputies agreed on June 23 that revisions to the Investment Law should bolster investors' confidence through further cuts in red tape related to investment activities.

After inspecting textile and garment enterprises, taxation bodies will cast their eyes on automobile manufacturing enterprises and put international auditing firms under probe, according to the General Director of the General Department of Taxation.

 Vietnam, Japan boost defence cooperation; PM sends condolences to Bulgaria; UN body approves human rights report; Soc Trang urged to focus on ethnic minority poverty

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam's coastal destinations have lured more and more tourists and created competitive advantage for sea tourism, said the Vietnam Economic News.

 On June 9-10, 2014, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi paid an official visit to Vietnam. The visit is the first one of an Italian prime minister since the two nations established diplomatic relations in 1973.

 A South Korean court is to hear evidence in the trial of the captain and 14 crew members of a ferry that sank in April, killing more than 300.