China’s anchoring of its oil drilling rig in VN's continental shelf and exclusive economic zone is a serious violation of Vietnam’s territory, ignoring the agreements of the two parties and states, said NA Chair Nguyen Sinh Hung.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China will not stop using force to change the status quo in the East Sea to gradually turn the situation into a fait accompli.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Is there a relationship between the record high foreign exchange reserves and the record low credit growth rate?

 Viet Nam beat Australia in the third day of the 2014 VTV International Women's Volleyball Cup in the northern province of Bac Ninh yesterday. The team won 25-6, 25-14 and 25-19.

The 2014 Vietnamese Cuisine Festival will be held in Nha Trang coastal city in the central province of Khanh Hoa from July 1-6.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam late last week called for the public, particularly patriotic workers at industrial parks, to stay vigilant against ill-intentioned elements.

 In recent years, Vietnam has actively participated in the World Economic Forum on the East Asia (WEF East Asia) and successfully organized the WEF East Asia 2010 in Ho Chi Minh City.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Major-general Nguyen Duc Huy put on his glasses to see photos of himself and his comrades more clearly at an exhibition by photographer Tran Viet Van that opened yesterday (May 19) in Ha Noi.

 VietNamNet Bridge – President Truong Tan Sang received the new ambassadors to Viet Nam from both Poland and China in Ha Noi yesterday, May 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – No river or lake in Hanoi can meet the standards set to be classified as a 1st-class body of water (unpolluted or slightly polluted), according to the Institute for Environmental Science and Development.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam offers no paternity leave whereas nearly half of the countries worldwide encourage involvement of fathers around childbirth, according to a new report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO).

  Defense attorneys have suggested summoning some leaders of Vietnam Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) to the hearing of a case against Nguyen Duc Kien, former vice chairman of Asia Commercial Bank (ACB), which resumes today.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A team from US-based Warner Bros, has surveyed a cave at Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh Province to select scenes for the film Peter Pan.

VietNamNet Bridge – China still maintained over 90 vessels of various kinds around its oil rig Haiyang Shiyou – 981 which is illegally standing in Vietnam’s continental shelf and exclusive economic zone, reported the Vietnam Coast Guard on May 19.

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 300 Vietnamese living in Belgium along with Belgians on May 17 staged a demonstration in front of the Chinese Embassy in Brussels to protest against China’s illegal placement of the Haiyang Shiyou -981 oil rig

 VietNamNet Bridge – The US travel magazine National Geographic has introduced Vietnam’s savoury Chung (square) and Giay (round) cakes among the world’s top ten traditional dishes.

VietNamNet Bridge – Several Italian parliamentarians have called on concerned parties in the current tension on the East Sea to seek peaceful and cooperative solutions in line with international law,

 VietNamNet Bridge – At talks with his Azerbaijan counterpart Ilham Aliyev in Ha Noi yesterday, May 19, President Truong Tan Sang made clear Viet Nam's stance on expanding relations with the Eurasian country as its major partner in southern Caucasus.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Educators are reeling over the surprisingly low number of students registering to sit the university entrance exam. It is foreseeable that schools will not have enough students enrolling.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnam has valuable treasure in the East Sea, but it still does not have deep knowledge about that treasure because of research problems.