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 Prof. Nguyen Huu Viet Hung and Associate Prof. Dr. Nguyen Ba An received the 2013 Ta Quang Buu Award at a ceremony in Hanoi on May 17.

 VietNamNet Bridge - An international press conference was held in Hanoi on May 17 to inform foreign reporters about bad individuals’ extremist actions that affected social order and safety in several localities in the country.

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 The White House has described China's placement of an oil rig in Vietnam’s waters as a provocative act and warned Beijing not to raise tensions in the region.

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.

China on Saturday continued showing its aggressiveness by sending more military ships to areas surrounding the HD-981 oil rig that it is illegally standing in Vietnam’s waters, said a senior official of the Vietnam Fisheries Surveillance Force.

 VietNamNet Bridge – German choreographer Arco Renz, winner of the 2012 ZKB Patronage Award for choreographing Crack in Cambodia, held a week-long dance workshop for dancers from the HCM City Ballet Symphony Orchestra

 VietNamNet Bridge – BIDV Insurance Corporation (BIC) admitted at its annual general meeting that the company had fallen to seventh position in the non-life insurance market based on market share, with premiums of VND790.55 billion ($37.6 million).

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many Vietnamese brides in Taiwan have become teachers of native language after engaging in a programme entitled “Ngọn đuốc tân di dân” (New Immigrant Torch).

 VietNamNet Bridge – A representative of Ha Noi Water Company has denied claims that water supplied by several water companies in the city has been contaminated with arsenic, a toxic chemical linked to skin cancer.

 Diseases that often occured during the summer were threatening to break out in Ha Noi, said health experts at a conference on disease prevention and control, food safety and hygiene on Thursday.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam should pay attention to all its sea areas in addition to the area where China illegally installed an oil rig, said one official.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Tra fish breeders must adopt Vietnamese Good Agriculture Practices (VietGap) or abide by international certifications suitable to Vietnamese law by the end of next year.

 VietNamNet Bridge – As a sitting member of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), China should cease its act of aggression and readily agree upon a dispute settlement mechanism.

VietNamNet Bridge – Aaron Toronto, a 37-year-old director from Arizona, believes he has karma with Vietnam which has kept appealing him for 10 years through ups and downs of many careers like film directing, acting, stage directing,

Vietnam's Sa Pa terraces are among the most incredible terrace fields in the world, selected by touropia.com.

 VietNamNet Bridge - HCM City on Saturday welcomed the largest ship ever that docked at the Sai Gon Center Terminal Port, through the newly-dredged Soai Rap Estuary.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam consumed an average of three billion litres of beer last year, making the nation Southeast Asia's beer champion. The country has been ranked third in Asia and twenty fifth in the world.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Here are three most impressive high-end fashion collections introduced at the Vietnam Fall-Winter Fashion Week 2014.