A group of four allied nations – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – intends to maintain open access to the South China Sea for international use, despite China’s growing control. These countries will probably make tough claims to ...

VNA-Vietnam has become one of the top five exporters of aquatic products in the world thanks to the development of the fisheries sector over the past years. Fishing boats of Vietnam (Photo: VNA) With a coastline of over 3,260km, Vietnam’s ...

An international conference in Ho Chi Minh City in November 2017 has called for comprehensive, lasting, and sustainable solutions and trust building to turn the East Sea into an area of peace, stability, and development. Themed “Cooperation for regional security ...

The world’s second-largest economy has been deploying disruptive technology that could strengthen its territorial ambitions in the South China Sea . Late last month, Beijing dropped a dozen underwater drones, also known as unmanned underwater vehicles, in an unspecified location ...

(Reuters) – A U.S. Navy destroyer carried out a “freedom of navigation operation” on Thursday, coming within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island built up by China in the South China Sea, U.S. officials told Reuters. The operation came ...

Australia, Japan and the U.S. have a clear and loud message for China: The South China Sea isn’t China’s own sea. It’s an international sea. That’s why the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Beijing must establish a set of ...

Session 1: Security situation Just like land security, maritime security includes both traditional security and non-traditional security. Under this framework, the paper focuses on analyzing some of the main contents of non-traditional security that threaten the security of the South ...

The main outline of US’s policy in the Asian region, especially with China and the South China Sea The main lines of US’s policy in the Asian region, especially with China and the South China Sea area of US Presidential ...

– Speaking after the visit to China of Foreign Minister of the Philippines (PLP) Peter Cayetano, Foreign Minister of China (29/6) stressed that two countries have established bilateral mechanisms for consultation on East Sea issues and cooperation mechanisms between the ...

25/6/2017 Russia and Vietnam have upgraded their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partner. Vietnam-Russia are developing a joint project on oil and gas in the South China Sea and Moscow also wishes to return to Cam Ranh Bay and sell ...

  24-6-2017 – The East Sea (South China Sea) Oceanographic Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on June 21 the project of data digitalisation collected from scientific surveys and other surveys in the South China Sea, including ...

17/6/2017 NDO/VNA – A Vietnamese representative has again stressed the important role of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) as the constitution of the seas and oceans which provides a comprehensive and sound legal framework for ...

16/06/2017 China, as a big country in the region and the world, needs to act responsibly and constructively in the maintenance of peace and stability in the region as well as in the East Sea on the basis of complying ...

16 June 2017 – Speaking during a visit of USS Sterett guided-missile destroyer to Zhanjiang, Guangdong province (China), US Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Scott Swift (June 15) said the naval vessels would increase their stay in the South China Sea ...

Sunday, June 11, 2017 100 photos, maps, and ancient documents were displayed at the weekend’s exhibition in Tokyo affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos.  The stall features East Sea issues. The event held by ...

(VOVworld) – At a regular press conference in Hanoi on Thursday, reporters put questions on Vietnam’s reaction to the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) ruling in the Philippines case against China. Spokesman for the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Le ...

(VOVworld) – US President Barack Obama said the Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime dispute with China using the tribunal established under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Prime Minister Lee ...

(VOVworld) – One month after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) decided an award on the Philippines’ arbitration proceedings against China on the interpretation and application of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the public shows ...

(VOVworld) – Vietnamese expatriates and locals in the Czech Republic marched in Prague on Tuesday to support the recent ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands on the East Sea issue. (Photo: VOV) Pham ...

(VOVworld) – The France-Vietnam Friendship Association, Vietnamese community organizations, and Vietnamese friendship associations in France issued a joint statement of support for the East Sea ruling of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, Netherlands. China’s illegal construction in ...