The new site of China’s oil rig Haiyang Shiyou-981, after it was moved to on the morning of May 27, is still completely within Vietnam’s continental shelf and the rig’s operation at this site violates Vietnam’s sovereign right and jurisdiction.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Nearly 130,000 people have signed an online petition asking the United States to impose sanctions on China for its illegal deployment of the HD-981 drilling rig in the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of Vietnam.

The Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese Embassy's representative to protest China’s  attacks against Vietnamese fishing boats. The protest was lodged in the wake of several incidents, the most recent of which was the sinking of a vessel on Monday

 VietNamNet Bridge – PM Nguyen Tan Dung last week made an unprecedented trip to the Philippines, where he brought the East Sea issues to the bilateral visit and the World Economic Forum on East Asia 2014.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Following China’s illegal placement of its drilling rig in Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and continental shelf, Vietnamese scholars in the US said the act seriously violates international law . . .

 Photos on latest developments in the waters of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelago will be on display at an exhibition in Hanoi from May 28, providing vivid evidence of China ’s brazen violation of Vietnam ’s sovereignty.

Increased tensions in the East Sea will be part of discussions between Vietnamese and American lawmakers during a Hanoi visit this week by a delegation from the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Bruno Philip, a senior Southeast Asia correspondent of France’s Le Monde, has analysed the complicated situation in the East Sea, saying China is behaving as if it is allowed to do everything in the region.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Defying aggression from Chinese ships, fishermen in Hoang Sa and Truong Sa are still bringing in daily loads of tuna, squid, mackerel and other high-value seafood. Bui Hoai Nam reports from Da Nang.

What are Vietnam’s options if China refuses to be taken to international court in the East Sea dispute? Vietnam can still file a lawsuit against China if it proves that the dispute between the two countries falls under the scope of UNCLOS.

 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.

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.

 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.

 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.

 VietNamNet would like to introduce the final part of the talks with Dr. Ngo Huu Phuoc, Head of the International Law Faculty of the Ho Chi Minh City University of Law.

 VietNamNet Bridge – China has made its claim about a nine-dash line that stretches along the coastline of a number of countries in the East Sea, covering up to 80 percent of the sea’s area.

 Long time ago, the feudal state of Vietnam carried out policies to send people to Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes to affirm its national sovereignty, said the People's Army Newspaper online on May 22.