Cooperation should be combined with competitive negotiations to address the region’s security challenges, said Deputy Defence Minister Nguyen Chi Vinh when discussing the message Vietnam brought to the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue.

The East Sea (internationally known as South China Sea) issue was once again high on the agenda of the 15th Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore...

Dredging and filling activities during China’s illegal construction and reinforcement of man-made islands in Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly)

Provincial People’s Committee has just devised a plan on organizing the 2016 provincial exhibition entitled “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly): Historical and legal evidence”.

Member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on May 24 voiced their support for maintaining peace and stability in Asia-Pacific, including the East Sea, at their foreign ministerial meeting in Uzbekistan.

The Vietnam Fisheries Association has issued a denunciation of China’s illegal ban on fishing in the East Sea.

Maps, documents and publications on the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos are on display at Tay Ninh city in the southern province of Tay Ninh.

Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Le Hai Binh has voiced protest against Taiwan (China)’s violations of Vietnam’s sovereignty over Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago.

A collection of 40 ancient maps, indicating the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Islands belong to Vietnam, and two atlases were displayed for the first time at a recent conference in Connecticut, the US.

Malaysia and China have agreed to address East Sea-related issues through the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) while speeding up the formation of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC).

More than 200 residents of Osaka and Kansai, Japan protested vehemently on May 1 against the overt Chinese transgressions of Vietnam’s maritime sovereignty and international law in the East Sea.

The ASEAN countries need to have a unanimous voice on the East Sea security and navigation safety issue, Vietnamese Defence Minister Ngo Xuan Lich...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi concluded his tour of 3 Southeast Asian nations on April 24 with a statement on a 4-point agreement on the East Sea.

The exhibition “Vietnam’s Hoang Sa, Truong Sa – Historical and Legal Evidence” came to My Tho city in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang on April 22.

China’s recent artificial island building and militarization of facilities in the East Sea have alarmed the international community and ASEAN countries in particular.