VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 130,000 people have signed an online petition asking the United States to impose sanctions on China for its illegal deployment of the HD-981 drilling rig in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – The World Federation of Trade Unions has expressed solidarity and support for Vietnam in its peaceful moves against China’s aggressive act of illegally placing a drilling rig in Vietnam’s continental shelf

Minister of Public Security Tran Dai Quang on Saturday talked on the phone with his Chinese counterpart Guo Sheng Kun over recent spontaneous protests against China’s illegal placement of its HD-981 rig in Vietnam’s waters.

 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 – US Secretary of State John Kerry on May 12 expressed the US’s concern about China’s illegal deployment of its drilling rig and escort vessels in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone, describing it an ‘aggressive’ action.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Over the past two days, the Indian media has run news stories criticising China’s illegal deployment of a drilling rig and military vessels in Vietnamese waters.