VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnam National Shipping Lines (Vinalines) has asked for a lot of favors to settle debts before it goes equitized.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Credit institutions have reported the bad debt ratio of Vietnam’s banking system at 3.86 percent, while the State Bank’s Inspection Agency announced a bad debt ratio of 9.71 percent at the end of February.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Department of Immigration of Sakaeo Province, Thailand, has admitted that it erred when requesting Vietnamese tourists to prove their financial means before entering the country.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China has sent nearly 80 vessels and dozens of patrol aircraft to the waters of Vietnam Friday, where it is laying an illegal oil rig.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Built in the southern province of Binh Duong, this building gets its power from solar panels, uses radiator glass to reduce the use of air conditioners and has installed a concrete drainage system to recharge groundwater.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese and Korean scientists recently announced the discovery of three new floral species in the Hon Ba Nature Reserve in the central province of Khanh Hoa.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Vietnam Gas Corporation (PetroVietnam Gas) and the Vietnam Industrial and Commercial Bank (VietinBank) are Vietnamese’s two representatives of the top 2,000 largest enterprises in the world this year.

 VietNamNet Bridge - On Thursday, Chinese ships continued to impede the operation of Vietnamese vessels on duty in Vietnam’s waters, in which China is illegally building an oil rig, the Coast Guard Command reports.

Vietnamese football officials have been informed of the death of Japanese football expert Kazuyoshi Tanabe. Mr. Tanabe was a former advisor to the Vietnam Professional Football JSC, which runs the V-League and the First Division Tournament.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The theme of this year’s ASEAN meetings is closely linked to the current situation, especially the recent developments in the East Sea, according to Deputy PM, FM Pham Binh Minh.

 US studio Warner Brothers has shot for a new Hollywood version of Peter Pan at the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO world heritage site in the central province of Quang Binh.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Many analysts from Australia have raised their objections to China’s placement of a giant oil rig, accompanied by a large fleet of vessels, in Vietnam’s territorial waters.

 Viet Nam's national football team retained its top spot in the Southeast Asian region and its 116th position in the world in rankings for May announced by the International

The Ministry of Health has told local medical centres, institutes of hygiene and epidemiology and Pasteur Institutes throughout the country to take preventive measures against the wild polio virus which has spread globally.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Leaders of the 24th ASEAN Summit have agreed to enhance strong efforts to build an ASEAN Community by 2015 and continue boosting development beyond 2015.

Vietnamese Historian Association criticises China for illegal East Sea acts; Vietnamese living in Russia vow to support sovereignty; UK-VN friendship society voices concern over China’s illegal act in East Sea

 VietNamNet Bridge – Overseas Vietnamese now tend to remit money to their relatives in Vietnam through unofficial services rather than via banks.

 VietNamNet Bridge – International organisations, governments and experts have continued expressing concern over China's latest provocative actions in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung has voiced Vietnam’s desires to strengthen cooperation in various areas with Myanmar and Indonesia at meetings with their leaders in Myanmar on May 11.

 Professor, Ph.D. in history Dmitry Mosyakov from the Russian Academy of Sciences has called upon China to stop oil & gas operations in the disputed waters and avoid a similar mistake it made in 1992.