Finance market reacts to Chinese drilling-rig deployment

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese finance market has been in flux since early May due to the political uncertainties caused by China’s provocative activities in the East Sea.

Chinese hackers shift attention to Filipino attacks

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese websites attacked by Chinese hackers has subsided in the last few days, as Chinese are now being forced to deal cyber-attacks from the Philippines.

Polluting companies refuse to clean up their act

 VietNamNet Bridge – Punishments ranging from license revocation to criminal charges have done little to deter the operations of a number of production workshops that cause environmental pollution in Ho Chi Minh City.

Students promoted to higher grades despite poor performance

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more students are “sitting in the wrong classes”, placed in a higher grade that does not suit their learning capabilities.

There will be economic solutions when East Sea tensions escalate

Territorial disputes in any degree will also affect the economy, so Vietnam will have appropriate response measures, says the Chair of the National Assembly’s Finance-Budget Committee, Mr. Phung Quoc Hien, in an interview with VnExpress.

HCM City gives financial aid to riot-striken firms

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Ho Chi Minh City government has decided to make full restitution for the damage to 32 businesses in the recent riots.

Deputy PM Pham Binh Minh to visit the US

Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh on Saturday confirmed US State Secretary John Kerry’s invitation to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh to visit Washington in the coming days.

Saigon woman burns herself to protest China’s acts

A 67-year-old woman in Ho Chi Minh City set herself a blaze in front of Thong Nhat Palace on Friday morning. At the scene, the police found six handwritten banners with the contents protesting China’s recent incursion into Vietnamese waters.

Over a ton of elephant tusks hidden in charcoal container

 VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officers at the northern port of Hai Phong on Saturday found more than a ton of elephant tusks hidden in a container of 15 tons of charcoal.

French General: Vietnam should sue China in court

 Former Air Defence General Jean-Vincent Brisset has suggested that Vietnam bring China to the international arbitration court as an effective way of dealing with China’s violation of international law.

The beautiful churches of Hanoi

VietNamNet Bridge – The value of the architecture and exquisite beauty of the Hanoi Cathedral and the Cua Bac Church are still praised after nearly 100 years.

Foreign investors come back to VN's real estate market

VietNamNet Bridge – After more than two years of market decline due to the impacts of the economic downturn, the real estate market in Vietnam is making positive changes and some segments of the market have begun warming.

If China continues acts of aggression, it will be isolated

 If China persists in its illegal acts of aggression in the East Sea, it will become shunned and isolated. So asserts Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tam, Chair of of HCMC People's Council and HCM City Deputy Party Secretary, in remarks to VietNamNet.

The most frightening destinations in Vietnam

VietNamNet Bridge – They are the places that will give visitors an unforgettable experience of pain or fear.

A new start for Vietnam’s national football team

The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) has recently appointed Japanese expert Toshiya Miura as the coach of the Vietnam men’s national football team on a two-year contract.

East Sea: Be careful with China’s “win-win” plot

 VietNamNet would like to introduce the final part of the talks with Dr. Ngo Huu Phuoc, Head of the International Law Faculty of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law.

Legal Advice: What constitutes a legitimate advertisement in Vietnam?

 VietNamNet Bridge - In an imperfectly competitive environment leading to asymmetrical information as today, advertisement is a marketing tactic which plays an important role in the course of existence and development of the majority of enterprises.

Benoit Delhomme on YxineFF jury

 VietNamNet Bridge – French photography director Benoit Delhomme is one of the members of the YxineFF international online short film festival jury this year in International Competition category.

Giant winter melons fail to bring a profit

 Farmers in the central Binh Dinh Province are harvesting their typical winter melon, which is about 10 times larger than the normal size and weight.

China's nine-dotted line: a vague claim

 VietNamNet Bridge – China has made its claim about a nine-dash line that stretches along the coastline of a number of countries in the East Sea, covering up to 80 percent of the sea’s area.

BUSINESS IN BRIEF 26/5

 Mekong Delta targets reduction in post-harvest loss; HCM City-based firms need 20,000 workers in June; Danang luxury real estate projects hit brick wall; PM urges ministries to support enterprises

Vietnamese students struggle in Japan

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese students have been struggling with a difficult student life in Japan, as they are abandoned by their overseas study consultancy companies.  

Smartphones pose threat to print media

VietNamNet Bridge – The increasing number of people using smartphones to read online news is making life difficult for print media outlets, heard a recent seminar in Hanoi.

Defending national sovereignty by historical evidence

 Long time ago, the feudal state of Vietnam carried out policies to send people to Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes to affirm its national sovereignty, said the People's Army Newspaper online on May 22.

Programme aims to develop e-commerce

 VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has recently approved a national programme to develop e-commerce for the 2014-2020 period.