VIETNAM TODAY

Coach Chen Yun Fat of the Vietnamese women's football team has been motivating his players with the promise of greater things to come, like a chance to play in the World Cup.

Two hundred and twenty Vietnamese websites were hacked from May 8 to 11, and the hackers have claimed to be from China.

Vietnamese internet-users have began a campaign to stop buying Chinese-made mobile phones in the wake of an illegal Chinese oil rig operating in Vietnamese waters.

The HCM City Department of External Affairs has summoned the Chinese Consulate General’s representatives to protest against China’s illegal acts in Vietnam’s continental shelf.

Although package tours to China have risen by 40% this year, travel agencies are now seeing many of those tours cancelled because of the tension in the East Sea between China and Vietnam.

One of 2014’s best meteor showers, with radiants reaching a zenithal hourly rate or ZHR of 1,000 per hour makes its appearance over the skies of Vietnam on May 24.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has expressed the US’s concern about China’s illegal deployment of its drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone.

Chinese coast guard vessel 3041 on May 12 fired water cannon on Vietnamese ship Truong Sa 22, which was undertaking a law enforcement mission in Vietnam’s continental shelf where China illegally installed its drilling rig.

Pro-Moscow rebel leaders in eastern Ukraine called on Monday for their region to become part of Russia, the day after staging a referendum on self-rule, although Moscow stopped short of endorsing their bid for annexation.

China’s illegal placement of a drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone in the East Sea is an “extremely serious action and will definitely impact the aviation market between Vietnam and China,” a senior airline official has warned.

The Taliban unleashed a wave of attacks Monday across Afghanistan to mark the start of their spring offensive, storming a government building in the east where attackers killed two police guards and five civilians, and striking a police checkpoint

Negotiators of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement began a new round of talks in HCM City on May 12, aiming to reach a deal ahead of a ministerial meeting to be held in Singapore on May 19-20.

Representatives of some organisations in the central province of Quang Ngai on May 12 gave assistance to the Coast Guard Region 2 and a Ly Son islander whose fishing boat was damaged by Chinese forces recently.

Philippine prosecutors has said they would charge nine Chinese fishermen arrested in disputed East Sea waters with environmental crimes, despite Beijing's warning of a dire effect on relations.

Vietnam ranks 12th in the list of countries facing the maximum cyber attacks, according to the Internet Security Threat report (ISTR19) released by the Symantec Corporation last week.

Six months of political turmoil has created Thailand's biggest ever crisis, the leader of the country's Senate said on Monday, amid calls from anti-government protesters for a new interim prime minister after Yingluck Shinawatra was ousted last week.

The MoIT is investigating a case in which a tourism company in Nha Trang allegedly forced a number of hotels to only accept guests from them.

In the final round of Robocon Vietnam 2014 held in Nha Trang city on the evening of May 11, the Lac Hong University team made a clean sweep, outperforming 32 other teams and winning all three top prizes.

Vietnamese people in several countries have gathered to protest against Chinese drilling rig on the East Sea.