On May 11, fishermen of Thua Thien-Hue province discovered a whale had floated to Binh An sea near the port of Chan May, about 1 km from the coast.

The Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem announced late Monday that finance ministers of the eurozone had approved two bailout tranches of 7.5 billion euros for Greece.

 VietNamNet Bridge – While digging the foundation to build a house for the family of Mrs. Nguyen Thi D in Cam Pha City, Quang Ninh province, building workers dug up 32 wooden coffins.

Colonel Dinh Manh Toan, Deputy Chief of the Police Agency of Social Order Administration, has admitted to make a slip of the tongue and would like to learn from experience.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Fisherman Le Vi Bi was sitting on a boat to fish squid when a swordfish of about 15 kg jumped from the sea to stab him, making the man fall into the sea.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Chinese coach Chen Yun Fat and his team left Hanoi at 4.15pm on May 12 and arrived at Amman (Jordan) at 5pm of May 13 after two stopovers in Bangkok and Dubai.

Recognizing asynchrony between conservation and development of relics, Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi said that next week he will go to the Duong Lam ancient village to directly listen to people's comments.

 VietNamNet Bridge - "Thang Mo 1" is said to have vulgar and reactionary content. The authorities wanted to see Ngoc Dai but the musician said he was sick.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has ratified the election of the Chair of Phu Tho Province People’s Committee for the 2011-2016 term for Mr. Chu Ngoc Anh, Deputy Party Secretary of the Phu Tho Party Committee.

 British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday called for greater efforts to end the protracted conflict in Syria, stressing that "there is no more urgent international task than this."

 Standing Committee plans NA agenda; Voters express frustration with unemployment; US helps improve law enforcement capacity at sea; VN, Laos plan to help minorities

 Germany's finance minister warned that only EU treaty change would create the legal framework needed to allow the formation of a single bailout agency for its ailing banks, in an article for Monday's Financial Times.

VietNamNet Bridge – Parents of small children in the city are worried about the possible misuse of vaccines in Ha Noi after a local health worker was found to retain part of a vaccine shot while injecting a child.

VietNamNet Bridge – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung yesterday, May 13, inspected the progress of Viet Nam's Kilo-class submarine, which is being tested in Kaliningrad, Russia.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The HCMC Department of Tax has announced the total 2012 personal income tax filed by local celebrities was only VND1.2 billion though they are high-incomes earners.

Educators have all agreed that it’s necessary to rewrite the history textbooks which are too academic and boring for students. However, it’s still unclear who will write the new set of textbooks and what standards to follow when compiling the books.

Too many firms have jumped into the OTT market, both domestic and foreign, which have spent multi billions of dong to advertise the apps. Only those who can spend money like water can win the competition.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Government has given the State Bank of Vietnam the task to narrow the gap between deposit and lending rates, in order to achieve a credit growth of 12 percent.

VietNamNet Bridge – On May 10, one worker died after falling from the fourth floor of a house in Tran Xuan Hoa Street in District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, which set off alarm bells on the total lack of safety measures in workplace across the country.

After having meals, a lot of travelers felt exceedingly astonished when receiving the bills. They were stung for millions of dong for the dishes worth several hundreds of thousands of dong.