Fishing boat QNg 90205-TS from the central province of Quang Ngai has safely landed at Tinh Ky Port in Quang Ngai city on May 18, despite damages it suffered from an attack by a Chinese fisheries administration ship two days earlier.

 Vietnamese and international friends around the globe are continuing to protest against China’s illegal placement of an oil drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and continental shelf in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President of the France-Vietnam Friendship Parliamentarian Group Christian Poncelet has critisised China’s placement of the Haiyang Shiyou -981 oil rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nguyen Thi Anh Vien has become the first Vietnamese swimmer winning a berth to compete at the world championships after her outstanding performance in the US.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Continuous foreign buying last week helped cushion the market fall, but escalating tensions between Viet Nam and China is expected to impact the stock market in the short term.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's women's football team will have to prepare themselves for the play-off match in order to win the continent's fifth ticket to the Women's World Cup next year after a 2-0 loss to Australia in the last match of Group A

VietNamNet Bridge – President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev is paying a working visit to Vietnam from May 18-20 at the invitation of President Truong Tan Sang, which aims to embrace bilateral economic ties.

 China has become a global power with extensive outreach to all continents. But it has never been so isolated.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese investors have lost billions of dollars overnight because of heavy fluctuations in the asset markets.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese traders, seeing a plunge in demand for Chinese products, have decided to stop importing goods from China for domestic sale. This trend has been accelerated with the ongoing dispute in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Of the websites hacked by Chinese, 120 have resumed their normal operation. However, 173 other websites have been warned that they have security holes making them vulnerable to hackers.

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese teachers and students have been participating in many meaningful activities to show their patriotism these days.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Twenty-nine artists have held an exhibition of paintings made from Vietnamese paint at the Vietnam Museum of Fine Arts in Hanoi.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In relation to recent incidents at the Vung Ang Economic Zone in the Ky Anh District of Ha Tinh Province, local police on Sunday morning arrested and charged 16 people for theft and disturbing public order.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Hanoi has recorded two deaths from rabies this year, after two years without any cases of the disease.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A 10-story parking center which can hold 1,000 cars and 800 motorcycles was inaugurated on Saturday in the center of Ho Chi Minh City.

US Congressman: Vietnamese people desire to live in peace; Worldwide support voiced for Viet Nam; Condolences sent to Laos over plane crash; Defence Minister attends ADMM-8 in Myanmar

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese students won one gold, four silver, two bronze medals at the 15th Asian Physics Olympiad (APhO), was held at Singapore from May 11- 15, according to Ministry of Education and Training.

 Prof. Dr Wilfried Lulei – a scientist in Asian studies has confirmed China’s placement of its Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig is a serious violation of international law.

 Only a few people know that Ly Son Island in Quang Ngai Province in Central Vietnam was created from five extinct volcanoes during the prehistoric age.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Making fish sauce is a way of life for residents in this village near Da Nang, but can they make the traditional product successful in modern Viet Nam or around the world?

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese remind themselves to keep calm and rational on East Sea issues. Vietnamese condemn only the illegal acts ordered by the Chinese authorities and they understand that those Chinese who love peace are Vietnamese friends.

VietNamNet Bridge – The new investment law aims to improve fairness and transparency, the Ministry of Planning and Investment's Legal Department deputy director Quach Ngoc Tuan told Dau Tu (Viet Nam Investment Review). 

 Plastic sector targets export growth; Equitisation gains momentum; VN shrimp exports to US jump in Q1; Samsung looks to boost investment in Vietnam; US abolishes anti-dumping tax for one Vietnamese seafood business

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese real estate market is littered with many unfinished large-scale projects worth hundreds of millions of US dollars, and no one knows if and when they will be completed.