(VOVworld) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received visiting UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Hanoi on Tuesday.

(VOVworld)- A photo exhibition on Vietnam’s seas and archipelagoes is underway in the Polish city of Lodz, providing local visitors with an in-depth look at Vietnam’s marine sovereignty.

(VOVworld)- On Monday representatives of the Vietnamese community in Malaysia attended a talk on Vietnam’s current affairs and the East Sea situation organized by the Vietnamese Embassy in Malaysia.

(VOVworld) – On Saturday Vietnamese people in Germany staged a demonstration in Berlin to protest China’s illegal acts in the East Sea.

(VOVworld)- More than 200 Vietnamese people living in Japan and Japanese pacifists took to the street of Tokyo on Sunday to protest China’s acts of encroaching Vietnam’s sovereignty in the East Sea.

(VOVworld) - East Timor’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Hernaini Coelho da Silva is on an official visit to Vietnam. During talks on Thursday, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh said Vietnam wants to increase cooperation with East Timor. Minister Hernaini said East Timor wants to learn from Vietnam’s experience in national development and boost cooperation with Vietnam.

(VOVworld) – Ninh Binh province opens on Friday the 3rd Vietnam Book Day and an exhibit of legal and historical documents and maps proving Vietnam’s sovereignty over Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagos. The event aims to promote the publishing sector and the public’s reading habit.

(VOVworld) - Japan's Yomiuri newspaper reports that Vietnam is one of the 7 Asia-Pacific countries to attend the G7 summit scheduled for May 26-27 in Mie prefecture, Japan.

(VOVworld) – Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry held its regular press briefing on Thursday. Concerning Vietnam’s reaction to China’s drilling rig HD 981 being moved to the area off the Tonkin Gulf on April 3, Spokesperson Le Hai Binh said: “According to Vietnamese functional agencies, on the night of April 3, China’s drilling rig HD 981 moved to the area, whose coordinates are 17o 3’12 North and 110o 04’18 East for operations. This area is off the Tonkin Gulf, whose delineation is being discussed by Vietnam and China.

(VOVworld) – An exhibition of maps and documents asserting Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Truong Sa and Hoang Sa archipelagoes opened in Bac Lieu province on Tuesday.