As a number of restaurants and hotels have refused to serve Chinese tourists, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism has asked tourist service providers not to engage in acts of discrimination against Chinese visitors.

National television broadcaster Vietnam Television, or VTV, on Wednesday announced that it had finalized a contract to buy the TV rights of World Cup 2014 from MP & Silva, the firm that holds the broadcasting rights to the event in Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge - 30 photographs of ballet art in Vietnam by photographer Trinh Xuan Hai were displayed at the “The Magic of Ballet" exhibition at the Center for Cultural Promotion in the city of Sumy (Ukraine) from May 6 through 11.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Central Tropical Diseases Hospital in Hanoi has recently treated a 58-year-old patient from Lang Son province whose brain became a nest for intestinal flat worms.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The ministry of Industry and Trade is investigating a case in which a tourism company in Nha Trang allegedly forced a number of hotels to only accept Russian guests from them.

 VietNamNet Bridge - As of Tuesday, China is using up to 86 vessels to protect the oil rig it has illegally deployed in Vietnamese waters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The banking system is plagued by low credit growth, huge liquidity but firms unable to borrow, and difficulty in selling mortgaged assets to liquidate bad loans,

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 VietNamNet Bridge – China’s installation of its drilling rig in Vietnam’s sovereign waters has attracted huge global attention over the past week, viewed as an intentional and provocative act.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam Coast Guard and Fisheries Surveillance Force ships have remained at the site of China's Haiyang Shiyou-981 oil rig to demand its withdrawal from Viet Nam's exclusive economic zone and continental shelf

 VietNamNet Bridge – The cost of running water in Hanoi has been increasing sharply, while the quality of that water remains stubbornly low –toxin concentrations are far higher than permitted levels, while pipeline breaks are a regular occurrence.

 VietNamNet Bridge – In an interview published in the website of the Authority of Foreign Information Service on May 13, Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Bac Son said the media needs to guide the people

 VietNamNet Bridge - Jerome and Linda and their two small sons have traveled to many countries in Asia by bike or hitchhike. Staying in Vietnam for a month, they visited the Mekong Delta and then traveled from the South to North.

 VietNamNet Bridge – One of 2014’s best meteor showers, with radiants reaching a zenithal hourly rate or ZHR of 1,000 per hour makes its appearance over the skies of Vietnam on May 24.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The demand for Vietnamese senior staff has been soaring amid a wave of Japanese investors flocking to Vietnam to set up their production bases.

Thousands of workers in many IZs in the south took to the streets to protest China’s illegal acts. Some agitators took advantage of the situation to incite workers to burn factories, and assault guards and foreign staff of many FDI firms.

 The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) on May 14 voiced its strong protest against China’s illegal placement of a drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf.

VietNamNet Bridge – For the first time since 1995, ASEAN issued a stand-alone Statement on a complicated situation threatening peace, maritime security and safety in the East Sea. The East Sea issue is also included in other important documents

VietNamNet Bridge – In a recent interview with Tuoi Tre newspaper, Chairman of the Vietnam Oil and Gas Association, Dr. Ngo Thuong San said that China is playing a trick to illegally claim its sovereignty over Vietnam’s waters

 VietNamNet Bridge - Located at an altitude of 1,200m above sea level, Lung Van is covered by cloud all year round. It is surrounded by the mountains of Trau (Buffalo), Po and Tien (Fairy) so it is known as Thung May (Cloud Valley).

Finally, Microsoft announced a patch to fix the bug in IE and also included a fix for XP users who expected to see an end to all patches and support.

Vietnam can sue China in the International Court of the Law of the Sea, while the Vietnam Oil and Gas Group may sue the China National Offshore Oil Corporation in the Vietnamese civil court, says a senior lawyer.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The state has offered credit packages for the local real estate market and will amend more regulations and policies to promote further recovery in the local market, noted experts.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – China's recent illegal acts in the East Sea have seriously infringed on Viet Nam's sovereignty, running counter to international law and practices and damaging the trust held by the world community.