Dang Thu Thao, born in 1997 in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho, was sashed winner of the 2014 Miss Vietnam Ocean beauty pageant which wrapped up in Phan Thiet City in Binh Thuan on May 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Courts in the southern province of Binh Duong handed down imprisonment sentences to two rioters after separate trials in the province yesterday morning, May 25.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Shares managed to rebound last week but investors remained cautious during all trading sessions.

 Eurosceptic and far-right parties have seized ground in elections to the European parliament, in what France's PM called a "political earthquake".

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam needs to do everything it can, as quickly as it can, to avoid economic reliance on China. This is the only path Vietnam can follow to be in control of its destiny and ensure its economic security.

 Admiral Samuel Locklear III, Commander of the US Pacific Command, has called on Vietnam and China to exercise restraint and avoid complicating the situation in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Vietnamese finance market has been in flux since early May due to the political uncertainties caused by China’s provocative activities in the East Sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The number of Vietnamese websites attacked by Chinese hackers has subsided in the last few days, as Chinese are now being forced to deal cyber-attacks from the Philippines.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Punishments ranging from license revocation to criminal charges have done little to deter the operations of a number of production workshops that cause environmental pollution in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More and more students are “sitting in the wrong classes”, placed in a higher grade that does not suit their learning capabilities.

Territorial disputes in any degree will also affect the economy, so Vietnam will have appropriate response measures, says the Chair of the National Assembly’s Finance-Budget Committee, Mr. Phung Quoc Hien, in an interview with VnExpress.

 VietNamNet Bridge - The Ho Chi Minh City government has decided to make full restitution for the damage to 32 businesses in the recent riots.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh on Saturday confirmed US State Secretary John Kerry’s invitation to Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh to visit Washington in the coming days.

A 67-year-old woman in Ho Chi Minh City set herself a blaze in front of Thong Nhat Palace on Friday morning. At the scene, the police found six handwritten banners with the contents protesting China’s recent incursion into Vietnamese waters.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Customs officers at the northern port of Hai Phong on Saturday found more than a ton of elephant tusks hidden in a container of 15 tons of charcoal.

 Former Air Defence General Jean-Vincent Brisset has suggested that Vietnam bring China to the international arbitration court as an effective way of dealing with China’s violation of international law.

VietNamNet Bridge – The value of the architecture and exquisite beauty of the Hanoi Cathedral and the Cua Bac Church are still praised after nearly 100 years.

VietNamNet Bridge – After more than two years of market decline due to the impacts of the economic downturn, the real estate market in Vietnam is making positive changes and some segments of the market have begun warming.

 If China persists in its illegal acts of aggression in the East Sea, it will become shunned and isolated. So asserts Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tam, Chair of of HCMC People's Council and HCM City Deputy Party Secretary, in remarks to VietNamNet.

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