A Vietnam Coast Guard ship is on mission around the DK1/15 oil rig. (Photo: VNA) The United States Department of State said on August 22 that it is deeply concerned about China’s interference in Vietnam’s longstanding oil and gas activities ...

It is obvious that China has no legal waters which could be the overlapping area, or in dispute w with Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone and the southern continental shelf, including the Vanguard Bank. According to the East Sea (internationally known ...

ASSOCIATED PRESS Beijing shouldn’t treat Vietnam the same way it treats the Philippines. When it comes to the South China Sea disputes, that is. It won’t work, and it won’t help the economic integration of the region either. Vietnam doesn’t ...

Dr Joern Dosch  The Mekong is Southeast Asia’s longest river and the twelfth-largest in the world. It originates in Tibet, flows through the Chinese province of Yunnan, and continues southward across or alongside Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam – ...

The sovereignty dispute over the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea between Vietnam and China has lasted for 45 years, which is one of the longest disputes between claimants over the same islands. This is also a complicated dispute ...

In Chinese leaders’ eyes, the South China Sea is critical to their strategy of expanding China’s influence and making China a world power. Politically speaking, the South China Sea is where China can deploy its “soft border” doctrine and its ...

China’s ambition to “monopolize control” of the South China Sea is not only having command over the waters adjacent to Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia… in the South China Sea but also controlling waters thousands of kilometers away from China such ...

The 11th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Inter-Sessional Meeting on Maritime Security wrapped up in central Da Nang city on March 15. Participants in the 11th ARF Inter-Sessional Meeting on Maritime Security pose for a photo (Source: VNA) The two-day event was ...

Over 30 billion VND (nearly 1.3 million USD) has been raised by 164 units and organisations in Hanoi for the “Fund for Vietnam’s sea, islands”, heard a conference in the capital city on March 14. At the conference (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn) Speaking ...

Vietnam reaped notable achievements in 2018, with economic growth hitting a record high of 7.08%, putting Vietnam on the list of Asia’s fastest-growing economies. New economic dynamics are expected to drive Vietnam forward in 2019 and help it achieve its ...

Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who proclaimed himself interim President of Venezuela last month and ruling President Nicolas Maduro have not yet met to discuss a way forward. The UN is calling for international cooperation to prevent a humanitarian crisis from ...

The US Marine Corps is developing a new concept of naval warfare to allow Marines to take South China Sea islands from Beijing in the context of a massive missile fight in the Pacific. Marine Corps leaders at the Surface ...

          Global Geopolitical Trends and External Factors that Impact the ASEAN To be able to comprehend the influence of global trends on the situation in East Asia in greater detail, it is appropriate to recall the “Three Grand Imperatives of ...

The 10th international conference on the East Sea themed “Cooperation for regional security and development” opens in Da Nang city on Thursday.  The conference was co-hosted by the Diplomatic Academy of Viet Nam, the Foundation for East Sea Studies, and the ...

Vietnam’s retail market is one of the top five competitive compared to others in the world, heard a seminar held in Ho Chi Minh City on November 7. Source: VNA Over the past decade, most shopping activities have been conducted ...

The International Association of Democratic Lawyers (IADL) and the Peace Foundation of Russia have jointly held an international workshop in Moscow to discuss the current situation in the East Sea and feasible solutions to disputes. Overview of the workshop (Photo: ...

Ha Anh Tuan, Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis under the Institute for East Sea (Biển Đông) Maritime Studies, writes on the legal implications of the arbitral tribunal’s ruling and its impacts two years on. Dr Ha Anh Tuan, ...

(VOVWORLD) – The 25th ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) took place in Singapore on Saturday with the participation of foreign ministers from 26 countries and the European Union (EU)’s representative. The ministers shared the view that after 25 years of development, the ...

Viet Nam’s historical sovereignty over Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes In the old days, with vague information about Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagoes, navigators only knew about a large area in the middle of the sea with submerged ...

(VOV) Vietnam’s export turnover is likely to reach 114 billion USD in the first half of this year, an increase of 16%. The foreign invested sector, including crude oil, surpassed 80 billion USD, 71% of the total export turnover. Associate ...