For four years, the Vietnamese People’s Navy has organized several trips for relatives from the mainland to visit soldiers who are doing their duty on Truong Sa Archipelago.

 VietNamNet Bridge – They are the areas with severe weather and soil conditions where it’s very hard for people survive and live.

Carrying 257 leaflets with Vietnam maps, which do not have the two islands of Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys), a Chinese passenger was fined VND30 million ($1,500) at the Da Nang International Airport.

VietNamNet Bridge – Viet Nam's sovereignty over the Truong Sa (Spratly) and Hoang Sa (Paracel) archipelagoes is the main theme in the latest volumes of the widely popular comic series Than Dong Dat Viet.

VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Quang Ngai plans to build a history museum showcasing artefacts and documents about the country's sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.

 VietNamNet Bridge – National Assembly (NA) deputy Nguyen Van Tien of Tien Giang Province has proposed to mention Hoang Sa (Paracels) and Truong Sa (Spratlys) archipelagoes in the preamble of the Constitution.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central province of Quang Ngai plans to build the Hoang Sa, Truong Sa History Museum in Ly Son island district.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa is to integrate sea and island sovereignty into history lessons at all general schools in the 2013-2014 school year.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee has issued an exhibition plan with the theme "Hoang Sa, Truong Sa of Vietnam - The Historical Evidence."

 VietNamNet Bridge – The book “The evidence of Vietnam's sovereignty over the two archipelagoes of Hoang Sa, Truong Sa” by Han Nguyen Nguyen Nha has been published.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A tropical depression strengthened into a storm in the East Sea on August 6, and is expected to hit northern and central coastal provinces in 36 hours.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Individuals and collectives who have significantly contributed to protecting the country’s sea and islands were honoured at a ceremony in Hanoi on August 1.

Nearly 300 singers and musicians as well as over 2,000 young people living in HCM City will perform in a music video and on a new album to highlight the contributions of Vietnamese soldiers stationed on the Truong Sa Archipelago.

 VietNamNet Bridge – When their ships suffer damage during a voyage, the Vietnamese fishermen of Da Tay Island go looking for one man.

 VietNamNet Bridge - Traveling to many islands of Vietnam has yet to be implemented due to lack of infrastructure and services.

A Foreign Ministry spokesperson on July 18 criticised China’s decision to grant residence permits and ID cards to its citizens in the so-called Sansha city that covers Vietnam’s Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos, describing it null and void.

 VietNamNet Bridge - In order to collect documents and objects on Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty, Quang Ngai province recently announced a hotline to receive information on this issue from the local people.

Published by the Chinese states in 1908, 1919 and 1933, the three atlases that are displayed at an exhibition in Hanoi do not mention Hoang Sa and Truong Sa though China still claims "historic sovereignty" with the two islands.

Da Nang authorities yesterday granted a Certificate of Merit for Tran Thang, a Vietnamese American, for painstakingly collecting historical maps and contributing to affirm Vietnam's sovereignty over the islands of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.

Yesterday Chairman Nguyen Trong Hy of the Vietnam Football Federation signed an official letter to Arsenal FC, asking them to edit the clip posted on the FC website (Arsenal.com).